Re: Blind Galaxy Turn Viewer? where would it be?

From: Tim Booth <timbooth@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au>

Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Rich Meese destroyed half the Galaxy when they wrote:
>
> I've been playing standard Galaxy for a few months now using the
> excellent GalaxyTV program on PC Windows.

And it is... three cheers for Tim Hughes (PS when are the results of Galaxy Fleet
2 coming??)
>
> I have now begun my first game of Blind Galaxy and wondered if there was
> anything similar I could use for this? I've read the rules and so on,
> but would like to simplify things a little bit. Is there a web page
> resource or FTP site where I can get something?

> nb. I don't have access to a 'c' or 'c++' compiler which makes things a
> little difficult, so if possible could it be a precompiled dos/windows
> version.

So far, I have found little of use (personally, and I'm quite willing to be
corrected, either Howard or Balrog :)

However, I have found that GalaxyTV can be easily hacked (by non-technical people)
to at least provide a map, with names and distances. As the reports tell you how
fast ships travel, this is at least a step in the right direction :)

The secret is to use an early turn report to get a nice large map (say, using
command M 0 0 180). Then, using a basic text editor, and a copy of a turn report
from a standard galaxy game, make Blind Galaxy report look as similar as possible
(especially in the presentation of the planet reports). Save as a text file, open
in GalaxyTV... if it doesn't work, go back, and hack at the turn report again,
until it does :)

Lo and behold, nice Blind Galaxy map. You can subsequently edit the planets files
Planets.txt, if you find out anything about the planets (ie, who owns them, how
big, how developed etc) later in the game. This I have found to be the best
precompiled tool for BGalaxy so far.

All the best, to all players in all games

Tim Booth
(and no, I won;t say which games I am currently playing :)

References

Blind Galaxy Turn Viewer? where would it be?
Rich Meese <rich@desking.co.uk>
Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Blind Galaxy Turn Viewer? where would it be?
Rich Meese <rich@desking.co.uk>
Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000