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Updated the history of the game based on emails from Patrick Dumais

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Version 7.20 (not yet released)
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Updated the history of the game based on information kindly supplied by
Patrick Dumais, who pointed out the source of Star Lanes in its original
incarnation. Reworked the manual page as part of the updated history.
Updated the Swedish, Norwegian Bokmaal, French, German, Serbian and
Esperanto translations (in that order), with thanks to Anders Jonsson,
Johnny A. Solbu, Frédéric Marchal, Roland Illig, Мирослав Николић and
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Early history
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The original (and very primitive) Star Traders game was written by S. J.
Singer in 1984 using Altair Basic. This was modified for Microsoft Basic
(MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system by John Zaitseff and
released on 7th March, 1988.
The original (and very primitive) game was written by Steven Faber and
published as Star Lanes on pages `131–138`__ in :t:`Interface Age`,
June 1977. It was described by the magazine’s software editor as:
… a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that everyone
can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer. Like the
Monopoly game, STAR LANES combines financial and positional
strategies as players attempt to lay claim to valuable pieces of
space real estate between the stars in the Galaxy.
-- Robert A. Stevens, page 123__, :t:`Interface Age`, June 1977
__ https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader/historical/mbasic/src/star-lanes.pdf
__ https://archive.org/details/197706InterfaceAge/page/n124/mode/1up
S. J. Singer took Star Lanes and republished it in 1984 as Star Traders.
His version was modified by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic (MBASIC)
running under the CP/M-80 operating system; it was released on 7th
March, 1988.
Star Traders was then completely rewritten in 1990 for the
Australian-designed 8-bit MicroBee computer running CP/M-80 on a Zilog
Z80 processor, using Turbo Pascal 3.01a. Essentially, only the name of
the game and some of the ideas were retained in this version. Version
4.1 of Star Traders was released on 1st August, 1991.
the game, the names of the first five companies and some of the key ideas
were retained in this version. Version 4.1 of Star Traders was released
on 1st August, 1991.
In 1992, it was recompiled for the NEC Advanced Personal Computer (with
8-inch floppy drives!) running CP/M-86 on an 8086 processor, using Turbo

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.\" *********************************************************************
.SH HISTORY
The original (and very primitive) Star Traders game was written by
S.\~J\. Singer in 1984 using Altair Basic. This was modified for
Microsoft Basic (MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system by
John Zaitseff and released on 7th March, 1988.
The original (and very primitive) game was written by Steven Faber and
published as Star Lanes on pages 131\(en138 in
.IR "Interface Age" ,
June 1977. It was described by the magazine's software editor as:
.PP
.RS
\[hellip] a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that
everyone can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer. Like the
Monopoly game, STAR LANES combines financial and positional strategies as
players attempt to lay claim to valuable pieces of space real estate
between the stars in the Galaxy.
.sp 0.3v
\(em Robert A\. Stevens, page 123,
.IR "Interface Age" ,
June 1977.
.RE
.PP
S.\~J\. Singer took Star Lanes and republished it in 1984 as Star
Traders. His version was modified by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic
(MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system; it was released on
7th March, 1988.
.PP
Star Traders was then completely rewritten in 1990 for the
Australian-designed 8-bit MicroBee computer running CP/M-80 on a Zilog
Z80 processor, using Turbo Pascal 3.01a. Essentially, only the name of
the game and some of the ideas were retained in this version. Version
4.1 of Star Traders was released on 1st August, 1991.
the game, the names of the first five companies and some of the key ideas
were retained in this version. Version 4.1 of Star Traders was released
on 1st August, 1991.
.PP
In 1992, it was recompiled for the NEC Advanced Personal Computer (with
8-inch floppy drives!) running CP/M-86 on an 8086 processor, using Turbo