Re: [TML] Database of non-sector Amber Zone worlds Phil Pugliese 04 Nov 2014 01:02 UTC
Interestingly enough, I *do* know that the 'Merchant Prince' LBB was developed using a BASIC prg running on an Apple. GDW used to have a newsletter hat they would mail out free-of-charge that had a lot of cool little tid-bits & one of them was that fact. They also offered to mail a copy, on a 5 1/4" floppy to anyone who asked. I asked, got a copy & had a lot of fun w/ it. I had to make some mods though; Mis-jumps kept happening too often, IMO, so I put in an 'opt-out' line of code where it would ask if you really wanted to do it or not. Also, there was a bug in the trading routine. Instead of getting a bonus for bringing cargo from a higher tech system to a lower one, the opposite was true. I sent GDW a ltr explaining the problem & they wrote me back w/ a line of code to fix the problem. Even though it was text-only, I found it to be quite addictive. Roaming around the 'Marches w/ your choice of ship. My favorite was the standard 'subsidized liner'. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 11/3/14, tmr0195@comcast.net <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Database of non-sector Amber Zone worlds To: tml@simplelists.com Date: Monday, November 3, 2014, 4:31 PM Hi Phil, The best information I have is that the First Survey data was generated by a program. What parts of the UWP where generated by the program. I know one of the articles published in either JTAS or when JTAS was incorporated into Challenge was coding to run through the process in LBB3 on an earlier Apple computer. At least I think the computer was an Apple. Unfortunately, I seem to remember where I saw the article. Tom Rux From: "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <nobody@simplelists.com> To: tml@simplelists.com Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 9:13:51 AM Subject: Re: [TML] Database of non-sector Amber Zone worlds This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (philpugliese@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows: I've always wondered if the first sector supplement, covering the Spinward Marches, was generated w/o using a computer. Considering the copyright date, it just might've been generated by 'hand' using the rules from LBB3. Parts of the 'Marches also appeared in the early Adventures, before the sector supplement appeared, as well as some subsectors adjacent to the 'Marches. I also wonder how that was done. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 11/3/14, tmr0195@comcast.net <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Database of non-sector Amber Zone worlds To: tml@simplelists.com Date: Monday, November 3, 2014, 6:12 AM Hello Ian, My guess is those worlds designated amber are based on their UWP codes of government and law level for the most part. Another possibility is that the code was randomly generated by whatever program or programs that were used to create the UWP data. Tom Rux From: "Ian Whitchurch" <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> To: tml@simplelists.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 8:01:29 PM Subject: Re: [TML] Database of non-sector Amber Zone worlds Did we ever get a list of why various worlds were amber zoned ? On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Phill <evildolphins@gmail.com> wrote: Tom> wrote: Have you considered either purchasing or getting together with someone who has a copy of the T4 CD-ROM from Far Future Enterprises. The CD-ROM is supposed to be searchable which might help find some the items you are looking for.Hi Tom, I have purchased it last year. My Canon site is a hobby PERL programming project though and I've done very little in the past few years. That is a handy tip though for me when I have another go at cleanup. I've mostly used it for seeing what exists at the destinations of my Random Travelling games of a few years back: http://phillwebb.id.au/fudge/traveller/random_travelling.html So only the Spinward Marches parts. 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