Newbie Ship Question

kritter@sbt.net writes:

@:) 3) Is there a decent Win3.x or Win95 based ship generator
@:) available other than the DOS based one or the Excel-based
@:) spreadsheets?  I sure hope, because my preliminary assessment is
@:) that it will take me over a month to make one using either Visual
@:) Basic 5 (enterprise edition) or this other program I am looking
@:) into, but who's title escapes me.  My take is to not reinvent the
@:) wheel if it has already been done or is in the process.

  Reinventing the wheel is certainly not worth it, but actually an FT
Status: RO

ship constructor is a pretty trivial piece of work.  Mine may have
taken me as much as a week, working in off-hours at work.  Of course I
write Java programs for a living so maybe that gives me an advantage,
but basically I think it's a fairly simple task.  As far as the
spreadsheet-based programs are concerned, that's how I wrote my first
ship construction program and it only took me a few hours to put
together.

  Although you have already been directed to the unofficial FT web
page, I feel a moral responsibility to point you to my Java Full
Thrust Space Dock at

  http://sidehack.gweep.net/~joachim/fullthrust/dock.html

  It runs well in Netscape but I've never tried it in IE.

-joachim