Tindie Weblog | Tremendous Star Trek on Sensible Response XE

The SMART Response XE was initially a tool, produced in nice quantity, that offered into schooling environments for pupils and college students to answer good whiteboard duties and quizzes. In sure elements of the world, they will now be discovered secondhand for not a lot coin and that introduced them to the eye of the {hardware} hacking neighborhood. With a easy pogo pin programmer, they had been rapidly reverse-engineered and have become wonderful goal units for Arduino BASIC and extra. This model runs an tailored model of the traditional text-based recreation “Tremendous Star Trek”.

Tremendous Star Trek has a very lengthy and interesting historical past that’s worthy of a bit studying round. Mike Mayfield is cited as its unique creator as he wrote it for the HP2000C platform again in 1972. There are hints that previous to this within the late 60s older takes on Star Trek as a Spacewar type of recreation existed on quite a few machines. In 1973 Dave Ahl and Mary Cole transformed the HP model over to BASIC PLUS and the code was included in Dave Ahl’s traditional guide 101 BASIC video games. 

The SMART Response XE is a neat little handheld powered by 4 AAA batteries (not included) and it’s incredible to see that inventive makes use of are being discovered for them reasonably than them being destined for landfill. We are able to think about shopping for this model pre-flashed with this wonderful recreation after which, after an acceptable interval of Tremendous Star Trek enjoyable, re-flashing it for Arduino BASIC and doubtlessly exploring a number of different retro BASIC video games!