I wanted to give you props for the old school hacking story. I’m glad I didn’t have a PCjr back then. That was well beyond my ability. I was just transitioning from writing basic to pascal around the time Starflight came out. Except for some knowledge of what to peek and poke in basic on the TRS-80 I had had previously, I didn’t know a thing about getting down to the PC hardware yet.
Today Greg opened up the ole archives for us and HOLY COW did we find the good stuff! Over SIX BINDERS WORTH of Greg’s original handwritten Starflight notes, decision trees for alien interactions, a mint condition copy of Starflight 2 (still shrink-wrapped!), a print-out of the ORIGINAL SOURCE CODE! GASP Whew! And what’s even crazier is what’s shown below is just about HALF of what we found.
There are some other gems in here, can you see ‘em?
Share what you find in the comments! And as always if you have any questions, want to share a Starflight memory or just want to say hi drop us a note in the comments as well!
I love how they’re so happy to have a “print-out of the original source code” in 2018.
As I said above, this is my first contribution to a kickstarter-type-of-thing for a PC game. Although I have to wait until the end of 2020 at a minimum, I’m feeling optimistic!
I remember working in an office with an open floor plan and several dot matrix printers. They were each housed in a sound dampening box. People constantly forgot to close the boxes. It was… noisy.
Re - Starflight
I remember getting this for a holiday from Compusa for an old pc. I also remember it not launching, calling customer support and having them send me a separate disc with the patch on it.
One of the formative games for me. Although my original copy is gone, I’ve got an original box/manual in storage.