Long Range Scan: the 1971 galaxy, on the terminal it was written for
An independent rebuild of the 1971 starship patrol game. Eight by eight quadrants of eight by eight sectors, three digits a quadrant on the chart, courses round a nine-point compass, and a stardate clock that is the real opponent. The name and the nouns are ours and NOTICE.md says why: the mechanics are free to rebuild, the trademarks are not. Raiders rather than the enemy from the television programme, beams rather than the energy weapon, and every sentence the machine prints written for this project rather than borrowed from a listing. This is the 1971 skin only -- paper, ink and a print head. The remaster and the synth come next, and the tokens and the structured transcript are already shaped for them.
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<h1>Long Range Scan</h1>
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<p>
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A browser recreation of the 1971 starship game. An eight by eight
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galaxy of eight by eight sectors, a clock running down, and raiders
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scattered somewhere in it. You find them by reading three digits a
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quadrant. It needs JavaScript to play.
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<p><a href="https://games.jcoffey.dev/">The rest of the games</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/long-range-scan">Source, AGPL-3.0-or-later</a></p>
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