STARTREK
                               For The Rainbow
                               Running  MS DOS
                               By Jeff Cameron

                                 Version 3.0

    This is version 3.0  of STARTREK.  Many new features have been added to
 the game. Every effort has been made to remove all known bugs, and to make
 the game as  challenging,  fun and easy to play.  The game is now ready to 
 play,  if all the required files, are in the current default disk and dir-
 ectory. Just enter in STARTREK at the DOS prompt.

    Required Files :  STARTREK.COM
                      STARTREK.000
                      TREK.MSG
                      TREK.INS     <-- The game will play  without these last
                      TREK.CMD     <-- two files,  but the game  instructions
                                       and Command help will not be available.

    If STARTREK is entered with no other command line parameters, the game
 will create a file called STSCORES.HST if none exists.  For more informa-
 tion, see the section on "History Files", below.

Learning how to play :

    This game is based  on the standard command  based version of STARTREK.
 There are many other  versions available that may be better,  but this one
 is for  all those  "ORIGINAL" Star Trek  fans,  that were there on Friday,
 September the 8th, 1966,  when NBC was premiering  the  "Sneak Preview" of
 their answer to CBS's "Lost In Space".

    The game may create one file in the current default DOS directory, only
 if none exists. The name of the file is STSCORES.HST,  and it contains the
 history  of the top ten  best scores for each class.  This distribution of
 STARTREK  contains a history file of the Author's best games.  For more on
 history files, read on.

    The game asks you if you want instructions. The instructions are on the
 file TREK.INS. This file contains ANSI Escape sequences so it can be typed
 on the RAINBOW PC (VT102 or higher) screen or printed to a DEC LN03, LA50,
 or compatible printer.

    The instructions are  quite extensive  and are written in two sections.
 The first part is designed to give you a general overview.  Just enough to
 get you started.  The second section describes some of the many details of
 the game. 

    In addition to the instructions  at the beginning of the game,  you can
 enter the command "COMMANDS",  which will give you a list of all the valid
 commands for the game,  and a complete description of the syntax and func-
 tion of each command.  This information  is also kept  in a text file with
 ANSI escape sequences,  suitable for VT102  or compatible,  LN03,  LA50 or
 LA100 ... etc. The file is called TREK.CMD.

    The game is capable of recording it's current state on a file to be re-
 played at a later date or time. The OLD and the SAVE commands allow you to
 restart an old game, or save the current state respectively.  When you use
 these commands the game will ask for a file name. You may specify a device
 and directory,  but if you omit them,  STARTREK  will look in your current
 default DOS directory for the file. You may also specify any extension for
 the file,  and if you do not, then .SAV is the default.

    STARTREK is also able to keep a record of the scores of it's best play-
 ers. This is done in a "History File". The History File saves the records
 of the top 10 best players for each game level (Novice,  Fair,  Good,  or
 Expert). One such history file, of the author's best scores,  is provided
 with the distribution of the game. There is no facility, yet,  to combine
 history files.

    Along with this distribution is a program called BESTSCOR,  which will
 report the best scores stored in a history file. If you just enter in the
 command BESTSCOR, you will get a listing of the best scores for the norm-
 al game history file  (STSCORES.HST),  or you can enter  the file name of
 another history file  on the command line,  to report on  another history
 file. For example, the command :

                     C>BESTSCOR AUTHBEST.HST

 will give a report on the current best scores done by myself.

Considerations :