Star Merchant is a game that I wrote over 40 years ago. It was originally published in the August 1981 issue of Creative Computing. It reappeared in David Ahl's book, Big Computer Games. I recently rehosted it to the TRS-80 Model 100 and NEC PC-8201A. I tweaked a few of the parameters to make it easier to win. I hope you enjoy it.
You can find it at: https://github.com/LEJ-Projects/Star-Merchant---NEC-PC-8201A-TRS80-Model-100 Included with the listing is a pdf file describing the history of the game as well as the game itself. I also included a few screen shots of it running on both a NEC and a TRS-80 Model 100. Let me know if you have any comments or questions. Lloyd Johnson lloydel...@comcast.net <mailto:lloydel...@comcast.net>