EGA Trek

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About this game

EGA Trek turns a space mission into a command console. As captain of the U.S.S. Lexington, you navigate a grid of quadrants and sectors while tracking energy, shields, repairs and enemy ships. The sensors and chart do much of the storytelling: a quiet sector can become dangerous when you move into range of a hostile fleet or discover that an important system is damaged.

After the title screen, answer the briefing and restore questions, enter a captain name, choose a command level from 1 to 5 and set the mission’s self-destruct password. Confirm typed answers with Enter. Level 1 is the gentlest introduction. The password belongs to this fictional mission; it is not a website account password, so do not reuse a real one.

F1 lists the commands. Type M and press Enter to navigate, then enter a destination. Two coordinates specify a sector in your current quadrant; four specify both quadrant and sector, with the vertical coordinate first. For example, 7,6 means sector row 7, column 6. Up raises shields and Down lowers them. Other commands include W for warp speed, L for lasers, T for torpedoes, E for energy and D for docking beside a base.

This page uses revision 3.1, The Mongol Invasion, from Nels Anderson and Arcanum Computing. SAVE writes a native game file; Enter accepts the default filename egatrek.sav. Restore it through the startup question on a later launch. Native file saves and the website’s backup controls are distinct. The complete original shareware archive and documentation remain intact, including historical registration terms.