I’d love details on this! This sounds vaguely like a game I played on a Harris Minicomputer in the late 80’s.
Zane > On Jul 14, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > If I am not mistaken, I have a book called Star Trek and it is from Dilithium > Press! > Memory is a bit vague, but it must be on one of my shelves. > The book describes in “FORTRAN style” the procedures for an NCC1701 simulator > 😊 > But if you dig deeper, there is * a lot * to do yourself. > Anyway, this book was my inspiration to build a StarShip simulator back in > the (19)80-ties. > > Henk > > Van: Zane Healy via cctalk <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Verzonden: dinsdag 14 juli 2020 15:53 > Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Onderwerp: Dilithium Press (Computer Books) > > Out of curiosity, does anyone know anything about this publisher? They > apparently existed in the late 70’s and early 80’s. They were apparently > located in Beaverton, Oregon in the same business park, on Nimbus, where > Norvac Electronics was. They obviously published some very strange computer > books, including what looks to be a teen romance. I find myself with an > embarrassingly nice little collection of the books, that my Dad apparently > had. Considering I think he touched a computer twice in his life, they’re > something of a mystery. > > Best title, “Nailing Jelly to a Tree”, which is apparently a book on Software. > > The publisher sounds vaguely familiar, and I think I might have one or two > other books from them in my collection. > > Zane >
