Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff

From: bampton@tyco.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)

Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

In article <39EE327D.2570E967@isu.usyd.edu.au> Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au> writes:
>
>Then there's Blind Galaxy - I believe Howard Bampton has a
>game of this about to get under way. Most of the normal
>analysis tools have problems with this version, as it doesn't
>tell you about all the planets, and the map wraps, unlike
>other versions...

Actually, some of the "best" tools (for some definition of best,
anyway), work with Galaxy 3.51, GalaxyNG, and Blind... To pick one
example, MKGal reads all three (Windows only though). Why one needs
turn viewers is a different question and one that escapes me personally.

My game started last week. I may have drop outs, in which case if the
several people that applied late don't want the slot, then there might
be an opening.

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bampton/blind.html has pointers to various
Blind Galaxy bits of information, as well as pointers to tools and
other varients such as Explorer.

>There was also a Web based implementation a while back, but
>I haven'tr heard anything of it recently.

http://galaxy.fzu.cz/

>So, probably the most common for your purposes will be
>GalaxyNG. I'm not aware of any new games starting in the
>near future, but I may be wrong...

Well, there is always the waiting list which I fish through:

Waiting Lists?

I do not personally keep a waiting list. I do however, fish through
  one maintained by Graeme Griffiths (use a subject line of qhelp for
  directions on how to use it) when I start new games:
  galaxy at postimpressions.co.uk

I think Graeme announced a few normal games about the same time I
announced Eris...

Howard

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References

[Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
"Andy Jenkins" <newsNOgroup@ntlworldSPAM.com>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:30:05 +0000

Referenced By

[Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
"Andy Jenkins" <newsNOgroup@ntlworldSPAM.com>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:30:05 +0000