Re: Planet UPP's and software

> Bill Morrison wrote a program to generate REAL star systems, not
> specifically for Traveller, but in accordance with modern astrophysical
> simulation.

If you're thinking of the Starform (aka Accrete) program, that was actually
done by me.  Version 3.3, by the way, is currently available.  It generates
moons for each planet using the same accretion algorithm as is used to
create the planets.  The new version also allows you to pick which type of
star you would like to generate, too (ie main sequence G3, giant K1, etc).

At this point, I would like to provide a better interface using graphics or
at least curses-like screen manipulation.  The problem with this is that
whichever way it goes, you lose portability (PC's don't generally have
curses or xwindows).  Since I'm leaning towards an xwindows display, I'd
like to poll everyone out there to see how many could use it.  How about
it?

Since the program is not really specific to Traveller, is it a good idea to
post it to this mailing list?  Where are the Traveller archives kept
anyway?


							-matt
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