Star Trader

The source code to the game was published in the People's Computer Company Newsletter in volume 2, issue 3 in January 1974.

The concept for the game is seemingly based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of novels.

Another version, Star Lanes, was written by Steven Farber and published in Interface Age in June 1977.

Singer republished this in 1984 under the name Star Traders;[6] this version was ported by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic under the CP/M-80 operating system in 1988.

Completely rewritten versions for CP/M-80, CP/M-86, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Linux/Unix followed, with the latest release for Linux and Unix occurring in January 2024.