			    TRAVELLER Digest 123

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) RE: Mapping Software (Macintosh)
	by "John Vincent Dempsey Banagan" <jbanagan@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
  2) Traveller Digest 122
	by "Mary E. Poynter" <3I4KQ7X@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
  3) MAC World Generator
	by Shalom Zaidfeld <cs911408@red.ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
  4) Serendip Belt
	by KenHagler@aol.com
  5) Re: Mapping Software
	by Jo_Grant.LOTUSINT@PLATO.lotus.com

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 94 11:42:47 CST
From: "John Vincent Dempsey Banagan" <jbanagan@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: RE: Mapping Software (Macintosh)
Message-ID: <42168.jbanagan@uclink2.berkeley.edu>

In Message Thu, 1 Dec 1994 00:33:25 -0500,
  Rob_Prior@nynet.nybe.north-york.on.ca (Rob Prior) writes:

>P.S. In deference to US copyright law, I won't be posting a copy of this
>application to the Internet without GDW's permission.

Will it be possible to get a copy through the mail.

John

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Date:         Mon, 05 Dec 94 20:48:00 EST
From: "Mary E. Poynter" <3I4KQ7X@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Traveller Digest 122
Message-ID:   <941205.204800.EST.3I4KQ7X@CMUVM>

To the gentleman who wrote the rules for BL: Good stuff! You should submit
this to Challenge! I'm looking forward to trying these out.
To Rob Prior: This program sounds interesting. Is this a Mac program? IBM?
(PLEASE?) Are you making it available anywhere?
   To GDW: You should check into the arrangement that Steve Jackson Games has
in regard to shareware/freeware computer aids for GURPS. They have a form you
fill out to get licensed. As long as the program is free, no royalties need to
be paid, but if the program is shareware, a royalty must be paid. The form
helps protect your copyright, while still allowing creative programmers to
make useful computer aids. MAKECHAR, for instance, is a character creation
program licensed in this manner. it's free, and is a GREAT help to GURPS GM's.
I'd really enjoy something of this type for TNE.

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 22:11:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Shalom Zaidfeld <cs911408@red.ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: MAC World Generator
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.941205220620.25455A-100000@blue>


On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Mary E. Poynter wrote:

> To Rob Prior: This program sounds interesting. Is this a Mac program? IBM?
> (PLEASE?) Are you making it available anywhere?

If I may reply to this;  The World Generator program (and Much much more) 
that Rob Prior is writing is for the MAC.  As Rob stated before, He won't 
make the program available in public until he gets a reply from GDW.  

>    To GDW: You should check into the arrangement that Steve Jackson Games has
> in regard to shareware/freeware computer aids for GURPS. They have a form you
> fill out to get licensed. As long as the program is free, no royalties need to
> be paid, but if the program is shareware, a royalty must be paid. The form
> helps protect your copyright, while still allowing creative programmers to
> make useful computer aids. MAKECHAR, for instance, is a character creation
> program licensed in this manner. it's free, and is a GREAT help to GURPS GM's.
> I'd really enjoy something of this type for TNE.

Yeah.  It will only increase the pleasure of GM/Playing Traveller.  
Hopefully, GDW will recognize the creative programmers in the Traveller 
community.  

Take care,

	-Shalom Zaidfeld
	-Toronto, Canada

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 01:30:49 -0500
From: KenHagler@aol.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Serendip Belt
Message-ID: <941206013048_6826928@aol.com>

Kelly St. Clair writes:

> I guess living in asteroid habitats all the time makes one a little 
>  'funny'... 

As a matter of fact, I have the Alliance sending research teams into the
remains of the Belt's government centers in 5650, trying to figure out why
they went nuts all of a sudden.

Also, it's not entirely true that _all_ the people from the Belt were killed.
1% of the populace survived the Alliance counterattack, and more would have
died latter, but at least some people would have survived. There would also
be a small number of old warships that have escaped destruction lying low in
the Serendip Belt system. I can't really say more than that on the status of
the Belt survivors, because I haven't written it yet!

                        Kenneth G. Hagler                            
Internet: KenHagler@aol.com     |     Phone: (619) 251-0054
              PGP public key available on request
My insurance company is Beretta U.S.A.

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 11:48:04 EST
From: Jo_Grant.LOTUSINT@PLATO.lotus.com
To: UNIXML::"traveller@MPGN.COM"@lotus.com
Subject: Re: Mapping Software
Message-ID: <9412061648.AA00364@Mail.Lotus.com>

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To: UNIXML::"traveller@MPGN.COM"
Cc: PLATO::"UNIXML::"Evyn.Gutierrez@highsierra.wmeonlin.sacbbx.com":DUVAX"
Subject: Re: Mapping Software

Yo,
	Has anyone told you folkes about
the Traveller Tools Group? We have classes
for doing most of this stuff anyway. It
really does make sense to combine efforts
rather than duplicate them. 
	I am currently working on a UI that
accesses the underlying classes to scroll
through subsectors, etc. The classs already
support disk I/O, text importing, ...
	There is a build on ftp.maths.tcd.ie
in the pub/jaymin/ttg directory. It isn't
the latest but shout and I'll put the latest there.


		Jo

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