I realize I am an audience of one for my fanboyishness around DYNACOMP SOFTWARE, a discount software house that sizzled through the 1970s and 80s. Today I found out they had a retail store! Google Maps shows what the building looks like these days. 
DYNACOMP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Here's a typical Dynacomp software manual. If you're looking for Frills, keep moving
While I'm down here; all you kids with your "Nintendo is being mean about my Mario hack" and "I got a cease and desist about this youtube vlog about the Simpsons" have no idea of the great STAR TREK SOFTWARE FIASCO of the 1970s and 80s
In the 1970s, people made a bunch of star trek games to play on mainframes, mini-computers, and then microcomputers. And they just called them STAR TREK because why not.
At some point, Paramount flipped their crap about all this and started just hounding everyone to death.
At some point, Paramount flipped their crap about all this and started just hounding everyone to death.
The side effect is that there are all these vintage star trek games at Internet Archive, NAMED star trek, USUALLY fighting Klingons, and then they all got weird-ass rebrands because Paramount found them.
But of course, these were cranky people finding out they couldn't have a star trek game, so they made star trek games and just didn't use star trek words to describe what is clearly star trek.
This all died down in late 1980s, and I think a lot of people forgot about them. But what a time! Anyway - emulated star trek incoming! Battle stations!
Wikipedia Entry on STAR TREK by the way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek…
VAGAN ATTACK. archive.org/details/zx_Vag… TOTALLY not based on Star Trek
STAR FIRE, a game where you take on the ruthless Xtardan Aliens for Earth Space Agency! Just some little two-engine ship with a radar screen, move along archive.org/details/zx_Sta…
TRIBBLE TROUBLE you say
ANYWAY
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