Re: Re:The Digital Battlefield

At 08:19 AM 1/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>>THE DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD
>>>Play Miniature/Board Games on the Computer!
>>>by Paul J. Calvi Jr. 17JAN97
>>
>>Maybe generating a machine-readable list of ships, positions, and
>>vectors would be best. That has already been done for pbem maps,
albeit
>>in Unix. But the file format exists, and I do have a copy somewhere.
>
>Unix...I still gotta learn that someday...
>
>Mk
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How about settleing on a format, then getting enough programers around
to
write the "game" for the different platforms....Unix, windows 95/3.1,
Dos, ect.

First work out what the program must do, break this into subsections,
and
then write each subsection for each machine.

Just an idea...

Donald Hosford 
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