[email removed] sez:
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Anyone out there using Quattro Pro for Windows? if so I have a
finished small arms design worksheet that includes CPR slug throwers,
gauss small arms and grenade launchers. *Most* of the noticable bugs
are fixed but NO gurentees. I beleive Excel can translate it into
smoething it can understand, if not I can try to port it over. (This
is starting to sound like a practical problem for you language folks
out there :)) E-mail me privately ifinterested and I'd upload it to
ftp.engrg.uwo.ca if there sufficient interest.
<deleted>
BTW how would one go about editing GIF images?
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Cynthia:
Anybody who has spreadsheets I can import, I would be interested in
using them (have new Excel 4.0, wanna play)! As for editing GIF
images, I use VPIC to dump them to Dr.Halo CUT file format, and use
Dr.Halo to edit them, VPIC to transfer them back to GIF format.
Alternatively, use any number of shareware image-processing programs
to dump GIFs to BMP, PCX or TARGA format, and edit with your favorite
BMP editor, Windows PC-Paint or Image processing software, then
convert back to GIF format. VPIC-Dr.Halo-VPIC is the cheap route --
VPIC is shareware that came with my graphics card, and Dr.Halo is
Commerical-ware that was bundled with my cheapo Genius mouse. (Long
since dead, but I kept DrHalo.) If you had Windoze inflicted on you
with your computer, VPIC GIF<->BMP/PCX and use Windoze PC-Paint to
edit is another cheap route.
Dave 'Philios' Prentice sez:
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My fervent hope (and its a hope as big as all of the RCES) is that someone
out there with more time or spreadsheet knowhow than myself has already
come up with a nifty little worksheet for starship design. My spreadsheet
of choice is Lotus 123 v2.0a for OS/2, so I can import almost anything
known to man (including Excel).
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Cynthia:
In my spare time, I started working on a TNE starship design
spreadsheet in my shiny new Excel 4.0 spreadsheet (won it as a
doorprize). (Runs fine under WIN-OS2). You may have motivated me to
get back to work on it. If I ever finish it, I will ftp it to
ftp.engrg.uwo.ca.
[email removed] sez:
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I'm beginning to cross reference all of my Traveller matrial. Does
anyone have suggestions about software tools to make this task easier?
I have started with the Amber Zones from the JoTAS and I'll be going
from there.
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Cynthia:
A good database? What platform are you working on? (PC with
DOS/ Windows/ OS2? Unix Workstation? Macintosh?) Personally, I've
gotten very fond of OS/2 .INF files, and am using the IPFC compiler to
create hyper-text linked reference files of everything from my
MegaTraveller starship collection to Marc's Home Cluster TCS campaign
data. Now if someone would write a shareware/freeware DOS or
Windows-based INF viewer, we could make INF files a nice universal PC
hypertext standard...
James T Perkins sez:
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I just watched 'Demolition Man' last night. The future Police woman has
studied the 1990s slang, and still comes up with 'let's blow this guy'
instead of 'let's blow this guy away', to the amusement of the audience.
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Cynthia:
<Cynthia looks oddly at James.> Gee, I didn't notice you hiding
behind the fireplace last night when we watched 'Demolition Man'...
<grin>. We (me, Steve, my mother-in-law) were all in hysterics...
funny movie. I'm keeping "Demolition Man" in mind for the next time
my players hit a really high law-level planet... "Bzzzt! You are
fined 1 credit for violation of the verbal morality statutes." "All
things that are not good for you have been deemed bad for you, hence
illegal... including tobacco, salt, caffeine, chocolate, red meat,
non-educational toys, ... , and spicy food."
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