Re: Re:The Digital Battlefield

At 5:19 AM -0800 1/28/97, "I know as a lemming I shouldn't be forming
my own opinions, b wrote:
>>>THE DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD
>>>Play Miniature/Board Games on the Computer!
>>>by Paul J. Calvi Jr. 17JAN97
>>
>>In short, this seems to be screaming for Shockwave. Pity school just
>
>Shockwave??...you mean the old Ogre expansion?? I HAVE THAT!  :-)
>

I have two copies of that. I actually meant Macromedia's web plugin
that lets you distribute applications created in Director over the WWW.
You can make very sophisticated interfaces and do serious programing in
Lingo, Director's scripting language. Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my
breath for Shockwave-VMS.

You don't really *need* to learn Unix tho

Michael Carter Llaneza
Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1991-1950
http://www.hypnotic.com/
Devolution is very real to me.

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