Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: Yankee Trader: Resurrection
From:    J0hnny A1pha (21:4/158.1)
Date:    Tue Nov 03, 2026 14:25

Lots of activity around Yankee Trader lately, I wanted to post my 'take' on the
preservation efforts. It's a space war game with a lot of depth (complex rules,
movement and calculations), so i first started this as a kind of 'archeology'
approach to document the heck out of the observed rules - then, I figured
anyone could pick it up and build a UI on top of it.

I primarily used GPT 6.1 (Sol) with REA to inspect the binaries.

The documented evidence is about 95% done at the GitHub URL below, and I also
took a stab at re-creating it as a Go-based BBS door (using my GoDoors
library). It's fairly complete, but needs testing. It has only been tested on
Linux on my BBS/BrokenBit, but it will compile on Windows as well (and I could
add ARM/Pi support).

As Exodus said before, with his Pascal vesion: This is not my game. Alan
Davenport wrote the original, and the source has been lost to time. This is a
homage. I added "Resurrection" to the name just to let players know it's the
re-creation :)

Would love any playtesting and feedback.

https://github.com/robbiew/yankeetrader

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