Edward J Driscoll [email removed] writes:
> In order to get a feel for the politics of this subsector
> (none of which falls within Imperial borders), I decided
> to write a program to take the UWP's of the systems and
> them on each parameter so that I could see, for instance,
> systems had the highest level technology.
Just to remind the group, I currently have two software systems
to automatically generate star systems. The first (written by
James Perkins) is MegaTraveller compatible and allows you to
generate a single sector at a time (ASCII and PostScript output
are supported). The second program is written by Matt Burdick
[email removed] and generates "real" star systems (based upon
current astrophysical studies). If there is any interest in these
progrtams, let me know and I'll email them to you (if there is
sufficient interest, I'll post them).
I look forward to hearing from anyone else who has public domain
or shareware software related to Traveller/MT. With any luck, this
will help supply the star system discussion group with something
to talk about and do. For the groups information, the last topic
of discussion was defining requirements for a program that would
generate anything from an entire sector down to a plantary map and
everything in between (ambitious? Yes,... :-).If anyone has any
discussion on the topic of star system generation, send them to
me (Bill Morrison [email removed]) and I'll collect all
the input, "digestify" the messages, and submit the digest to
the Traveller Mailing List.
Star system generation is usually a hot topic, but of late, traffic
on the topic has come to a sreeching halt. If you have anything to
say about Star System Databases, their generation, storage, and display,
I'll be glad to get your input.
- --Bill Morrison
Star System Discussion Group Coordinator