Right after the last post, I came down sick.  Now I have to pick it up and get it together.

As of my last post I hadn’t even decided what to do for a game. Two games that I played in the past, came to mind.  I played Hammurabi on the PDP 11/70.  Star Merchant was another game I came across.  Both have possibilities, and apparently Creative Computing agreed about Hammurabi, because they published Dukedom, which was supposed to be a multiplayer version, although I never quite got it to work that way.

That leaves me with Star Merchant.  This would have been my first choice anyway, but I was concerned it might be to complicated to the short amount of time to work with.  Dukedom and Star Merchant were both published in the book, Big Computer Games in 1984.

Star Merchant is a game where you as captain, take your starship in a trade route of your choice between ten different star systems.  At each star system you buy and sell cargo in the attempt to gain a profit.

The original single player version from Creative Computing has been typed in and can be run on my emulated PDP 11/70.  Once you are signed on you can run it by entering:

RUN !STMRCH

Last Update: 01-Apr-18