Hello again!
I'd like to thank you all for your responses. Although I have to agree
that most of the major posters have moved, or at least taken vacation from,
the TML to other pursuits, I don't think that should hurt us. As long as we
all get the oomph to post, us lurkers and such, the TML shouldn't dry up
or anything drastic. I guess we'll have to just speak up! 8->
Thanks to James Kundert [email removed] for the reply and...
model#>=jump# ? No there's something new to me! Oh well. Just another little
modification I have to make to a few designs... Thanks for the info. Wasn't in
the erratta.
Joe Heck <CCJOE@[email removed]> writes:
>Well Anthony, you spured me on last night (and one of the players in our
>group demanding to know about desktop/handheld computers). I went through
>and details out the technology breakpoints and what happened at them
>(guessing in some cases) and extrapolated the data out to various forms.
>So... here's the rundown. (The format for TL is intro/wide-spread use). My
>information is from Classic Trav&Book 8 Robots, MT Referee's companion.
Sorry if I opened a can of worms for you... ;->
I think that you did an excellent job of breaking down the computer scene.
In regards to the Neural Implant Computers, these are new to TNE? I've never
come across such dodads in MT. Either way, Very nice job! I'll have to digest
that further...
Matt Goodman [email removed] writes:
>Ummmm.... from what I've seen of TNE and MT designs, I'd say they
>were pretty much incompatible. I didn't mean to suggest that you
>_shouldn't_ design MT rules. Sorry. I have publication on the brain.
No Probs! Yeah, I figured they'd revamp computers in FF&S, but i didn't
realize that it would be as major a change as some of the stuff I saw in Joe's
post! Well, I guess if I had the rule books it'd probably not be that much of
a stretch, but... I'll still give the Mega Thing a shot, but it looks bad at
the moment.
A general question to you all, am I horribly misguided in interpreting
a Model/1bis as a Basic Instruction Set Model 1 ? Or does bis stand for
something cryptic that is not in my books... I'm gonna feel really silly if
it doesn't mean what I think it means and I design rules around this...
Derek Wildstar [email removed] writes:
>The Neural Implants would be roughly similar to flight computers in that
>most of the software you would use with one of these is pre-installed and
>built-in, although with a good bit more storage space for all the
>random data that people tend to collect and want available at a moment's
>notice. The implanted computers would also be similar to flight computers
>because, like flight computers, they would have to respond to sensor and
>control inputs in a "real-time" manner. Unlike a flight computer, they
>would have to have storage and application programs roughly similar to hand
>computers, to store and retrieve data for the user.
Would all programs be previously installed? Well, maybe in base models,
but it could be conceivable to install a small jack in the base of the skull
that we could fit program clips (You know, Microsofts in Gibson's books...)
into and download programs or information from or to them depending on whim.
Yes, I agree that there would have to be special software for the transfers
of information to and from the slots and to change currently running
application programs, but that's minor.
The rest of your post sounds most reasonable.
To this point, most of my rules have been balled up and chucked. Since
I have perused the Robots book, I have found references to programs and CPU
and storage units. I have been trying to find a common base between the
Starship/Vehicle computers and the Robotic brain components. I mean, they are
made of roughly the same electronic technology per techlevel. Unfortunately,
other than knowing that a Jump Calculation, Antihijacking, Security, Gunnery
and other assorted things should run on these beasties, I have no Idea of the
space required for each and if such information was ever made public or not.
So, I have the choice of going into no man's land or giving up.
Does anyone have any information on ship computers and progams for said
comps? Would this be available in the Starship Operator's Manual? I'm trying
to get a second hand copy of said publication.
Anyhow, I've used up enough space!
Anthony
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