Re: GalaxyTV

From: Tim Hughes <t.hughes@bbcnc.org.uk>

Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Hi folks,

As the author of Galaxy TV I can assure you that Galaxy TV CANNOT read
Blind Galaxy turns. Sorry :-(

This is mainly it works for plain Galaxy so I didn't fix it :-).  I did
have a very crude attempt at a Blind version, but I gave up playing Blind
Galaxy and so I scrapped it!  The main differences are, the variety of
different orders supported by Blind, the planet naming and numbering
conventions, the wraparound map (this is the trickiest because I made
some assumptions about world coords always being positive which don't
hold in Blind).

The good news is that I plan to release the Galaxy TV sources after
version 3.0 is completed and released.  At least one programmer has
expressed an interest in making the conversion so perhaps you won't have
to wait too long.

The bad news is that I'm going to port Galaxy TV to Windows 95 as a full
32-bit application.  This will be the only version that I will continue
to develop in the future.  This is mainly because I program Galaxy TV to
learn about new software tools and Win32 is next on my list.

I will keep you posted on developments.

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+  Tim Hughes                   We are such stuff                 +
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+      is rounded with a sleep.    The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1     +
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References

Re: GalaxyTV
Deric Elkins <delkins@eniac>
Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000