"Bobby Mock" wrote (some time ago):
> How do I know if I have Galactic 2.4c or not?
Apologies for my previous answer to this. I was just skimming
old email and realized that in my inept snarkiness, I'd made a
mistake. I'd just assumed I'd put the version number somewhere
on the opening screen (a standard programming practice), but I
guess not. Duh...
So a sure-fire way to figure out your version# is to open up
gal.bas in a text editor (if you can't, try copying or renaming
it to gal.txt), and then look at the first line. If it says
something like "REM Galactic v2.4c" then I'm guessing you've
probably got v2.4c
Incidentally, I don't know if this is too much to ask, but
does dosbox still run under Windows 7? I'm wondering if
galactic will still be at all usable after I upgrade.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, jimvassila <jimv@...> wrote:
<snip>
Incidentally, I don't know if this is too much to ask, but
does dosbox still run under Windows 7? I'm wondering if
galactic will still be at all usable after I upgrade.
Oh crud. It runs find under Vista Business but I'd forgotten about testing DosBox under Windows 7.
A quick Google search revealed some people are running DosBox under Win7 but they're reporting problems with not being able to modify the config file or run DosBox in full screen mode. However, the person complaining about full screen mode issues also said the same thing about Vista and I can run DosBox full screen all day long under Vista just by using the Alt-Enter hotkey.
my condolances...
--- In galactic@yahoogroups.com, cnl.rubicon@... wrote:
>
> Just a note to let everyone know that "Lord Ronin from Q-Link" AKA: David
> O.E. Mohr Passed away yesterday from a heart attack.
>
> In service,
> Clifford Linehan
> The Core Route Projects
> Host for Turokan's Expedition to the Rim.
> ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2009
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We are not getting any younger, that is for sure. My condolences.
From: galactic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:galactic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Smart Sent: Friday, 30 April 2010 1:28 a.m. To: galactic@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [galactic] Re: The Passing of a Gamer.
It's "funny" how attached I can get to people I've never even met.
I remember Gen.Turokan. I even think of him occasionally and how his
work brightened my days, even as he was dying. I hope the General and
Lord Ronin are hoisting one wherever they are. I know I shall here.
To all our friends, the quick and the dead, salute!
--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Smaller, Brian <brian.smaller@...> wrote:
I'll drink to that, Cheers.
We are not getting any younger, that is for sure. My condolences.
--- In galactic@yahoogroup s.com, cnl.rubicon@ ... wrote: > > Just a note to let everyone know that "Lord Ronin from Q-Link" AKA: David > O.E. Mohr Passed away yesterday from a heart attack. > > In service, > Clifford Linehan > The Core Route Projects > Host for Turokan's Expedition to the Rim. > ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2009
I had the same thought. The internet has certainly enriched our lives and our ability to connect to people.
Happy Travelling Lord Ronin.
From: galactic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:galactic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jason Barnabas Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 9:49 a.m. To: galactic@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [galactic] Re: The Passing of a Gamer.
My condolences as well.
It's "funny" how attached I can get to people I've never even met.
I remember Gen.Turokan. I even think of him occasionally and how his work brightened my days, even as he was dying. I hope the General and Lord Ronin are hoisting one wherever they are. I know I shall here. To all our friends, the quick and the dead, salute!
--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Smaller, Brian <brian.smaller@hp.com> wrote:
I'll drink to that, Cheers.
We are not getting any younger, that is for sure. My condolences.
--- In galactic@yahoogroup s.com, cnl.rubicon@ ... wrote: > > Just a note to let everyone know that "Lord Ronin from Q-Link" AKA: David > O.E. Mohr Passed away yesterday from a heart attack. > > In service, > Clifford Linehan > The Core Route Projects > Host for Turokan's Expedition to the Rim. > ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2009
Hello. I have not used Galactic in years, but recently created a sector for a
campaign I will soon be running and decided to use Galactic to keep track of it.
In order to do so, I first created the subsectors, then put those together into
a sector file using the proper format.
Then, I executed sec2gal on the sector file to create the Gal24c database.
Finally, as instructed in the sec2gal documentation (README), I then edited the
appropriate files to assign subsector names.
Finally, I pasted this directory tree into the \CLASSIC directory tree with the
other sectors.
Is there something else I need to do in order to make Galactic 2.4c see this
sector (FAR FRONTIERS, for the curious)? I have so far been unable to
accomplish this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Ron Brown
Traveller Downport
http://www.downport.com
Every copy of sec2gal I have seen available for download is in a gzipped tar
archive. You'll need a program that can extract it, such as 7-zip for Windows.
Under Linux or Unix, however, or Cygwin under Windows, you can type the
following to extract the archive:
gunzip < filename | tar xvf -
Running sec2gal requires that you have access to Perl. Perl comes standard with
most Linux and Unix distributions. Cygwin also includes Perl and will run the
sec2gal script without issue under Windows.
Let me know if you require further assistance.
Ron Brown
Traveller Downport
http://www.downport.com
--- In galactic@yahoogroups.com, "diocletian88" <albertijjr@...> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> I am aware of the website. It is a good one for sector maps. I would
> like the .sar files that I can import into my galactic on my computer
> so that I can view and edit the data. The .sar files do not seem to
> exist on the website.
>
> I tried to download the sec2gal tool, but the zip file is empty when
> I download it.
>
> Joe
Hi Ron!
Yeah, you need to edit the sector list in order to let the program know that the
sector is there. Each galaxy has its own sector list. The classic galaxy's
sector list is gals\classic\classic.lst (it is a plain vanilla text file as are
all the program's data files).
You can edit it manually, or you can just enter the classic galaxy from with the
program (where it gives you the map w/ all the sectors) and hit the "<" key.
Info about how the edit the sector list is available in
help\qna\data\list.txt
Hope this helps, and if you have any questions or need any further help, just
let me know... -jim
--- In galactic@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" <ronnyquest@...> wrote:
>
> Hello. I have not used Galactic in years, but recently created a sector for a
campaign I will soon be running and decided to use Galactic to keep track of it.
In order to do so, I first created the subsectors, then put those together into
a sector file using the proper format.
>
> Then, I executed sec2gal on the sector file to create the Gal24c database.
Finally, as instructed in the sec2gal documentation (README), I then edited the
appropriate files to assign subsector names.
>
> Finally, I pasted this directory tree into the \CLASSIC directory tree with
the other sectors.
>
> Is there something else I need to do in order to make Galactic 2.4c see this
sector (FAR FRONTIERS, for the curious)? I have so far been unable to
accomplish this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Ron Brown
> Traveller Downport
> http://www.downport.com
>
Hey, Jim! Good to hear from you. Also, thanks; that did the trick. I'll
publish what I have when it's more fully fleshed out. As you might imagine, I
am not overly concerned about canon...
BTW, we've started a push to reinvigorate The Traveller Downport; this Far
Frontiers thing is a part of that. There will also be more Landgrab material
forthcoming and some other goodies as we move ahead.
It's been too long without any Traveller activity for the staff at downport.com
and we were beginning to despair; real life and all that. Heh, heh, heh...
Ron
--- In galactic@yahoogroups.com, "jimvassila" <jimv@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Ron!
>
> Yeah, you need to edit the sector list in order to let the program know that
the sector is there. Each galaxy has its own sector list. The classic galaxy's
sector list is gals\classic\classic.lst (it is a plain vanilla text file as are
all the program's data files).
>
> You can edit it manually, or you can just enter the classic galaxy from with
the program (where it gives you the map w/ all the sectors) and hit the "<" key.
>
> Info about how the edit the sector list is available in
> help\qna\data\list.txt
>
> Hope this helps, and if you have any questions or need any further help, just
let me know... -jim
>
>
>
> --- In galactic@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" <ronnyquest@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello. I have not used Galactic in years, but recently created a sector for
a campaign I will soon be running and decided to use Galactic to keep track of
it. In order to do so, I first created the subsectors, then put those together
into a sector file using the proper format.
> >
> > Then, I executed sec2gal on the sector file to create the Gal24c database.
Finally, as instructed in the sec2gal documentation (README), I then edited the
appropriate files to assign subsector names.
> >
> > Finally, I pasted this directory tree into the \CLASSIC directory tree with
the other sectors.
> >
> > Is there something else I need to do in order to make Galactic 2.4c see this
sector (FAR FRONTIERS, for the curious)? I have so far been unable to
accomplish this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > Ron Brown
> > Traveller Downport
> > http://www.downport.com
> >
>
Hi!
I just wanted to inform you about the new 76 patrons contest (with a prize).
There is just two weeks until your entries should be sent in.
More information at the Zhodani Base.
http://zho.berka.com/2010/07/01/the-second-76-patrons-contest/
Cheers
/BeRKA
Take a look at QB64 (http://www.qb64.net) - it seems to be a 32- and
64-bit translator/compiler for QBasic, currently advertising about 98%
compatibility - and the implications are that the remaining 2% or so are
the stuff that most QB programmers probably don't use, like PEEK/POKE or
IN/OUT (port related). It's entirely possible that GAL can just be
recompiled with this, and bingo!.
On 9/26/2010 2:28 AM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> Take a look at QB64 (http://www.qb64.net) - it seems to be a 32- and
> 64-bit translator/compiler for QBasic, currently advertising about 98%
> compatibility - and the implications are that the remaining 2% or so are
> the stuff that most QB programmers probably don't use, like PEEK/POKE or
> IN/OUT (port related). It's entirely possible that GAL can just be
> recompiled with this, and bingo!.
Sorry, but NO go! QB64 hasn't implemented DEF FNxxx yet. I
suppose you could go through and convert all the old style
functions to function/end function, but I'm not sure that
would work in Gal's case. I also don't like the small size of
the display window in QB64, and I do not want to run Galactic
in full screen mode.
I will say, it appears to be getting close, though.
Eris
On 9/26/2010 2:22 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:
> On 9/26/2010 2:28 AM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
>> Take a look at QB64 (http://www.qb64.net) - it seems to be a 32- and
>> 64-bit translator/compiler for QBasic, currently advertising about 98%
>> compatibility - and the implications are that the remaining 2% or so are
>> the stuff that most QB programmers probably don't use, like PEEK/POKE or
>> IN/OUT (port related). It's entirely possible that GAL can just be
>> recompiled with this, and bingo!.
>
> Sorry, but NO go! QB64 hasn't implemented DEF FNxxx yet. I
> suppose you could go through and convert all the old style
> functions to function/end function, but I'm not sure that
> would work in Gal's case. I also don't like the small size of
> the display window in QB64, and I do not want to run Galactic
> in full screen mode.
>
> I will say, it appears to be getting close, though.
>
> Eris
Well, after spending some time on it...still no go.
I converted all the Def FNxxx's to functions and I got the
main menu to run...but...the arrow wasn't matched up with the
menu...but, I could choose a menu item and About worked and
Starcharts worked to get me to the galaxies menu, and I could
choose a galaxy...but, I couldn't get it to display any data.
So, close, but no joy.
Someone that really doesn't want to use Dosbox can work on it
and maybe get it working, but for me...I'll stick with DosBox.
Eris
FREEBASIC has a very high degree of QB compatibility and produces Windows and
Linux executables.
http://www.freebasic.net/forum/
A while ago, I ran GALACTIC through it. I was able to get the main menu part up
and running within about 1 hour as a compiled Windows program. From what I
remember I had to convert line numbers that were referenced by GOTOs etc to
labels
e.g. 00010->L00010
and change some of the SHELLs to external programs to calls to subroutines
containing the the external code.
I converted a ~7500 line QB program of my own to run as Window program in a
couple of hours work.
Hi,
My name is Grev, I'm a long time roleplayer and GM, but this will be my first
time running Traveller.
I'm going to run a game set in a variant of the TNE setting. Gal 2.4 is
installed and running perfectly and I expect I'll have lots of questions as I
set things up.
Cheers,
Grev
Welcome. This is a pretty quiet list but someone usually answers a question if you have one. I have been using Gal2.4 for years. I love it. Jim's little piece of hobby software has given a lot of people an awful lot of fun and gaming pleasure.
From: galactic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:galactic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of gnodfrey Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 8:21 a.m. To: galactic@yahoogroups.com Subject: [galactic] Introduction
Hi,
My name is Grev, I'm a long time roleplayer and GM, but this will be my first time running Traveller.
I'm going to run a game set in a variant of the TNE setting. Gal 2.4 is installed and running perfectly and I expect I'll have lots of questions as I set things up.
Had occasion to move a machine to Windows 7, and confirmed that GAL doesn't like
that environment. Played with it briefly, even trying the visualization options
available natively(ish) in Windows 7 including installing an instance of XP as a
virtual machine under Windows 7. All without luck.
Recently moved a second, beefier machine to Windows 7 (new desktop machine), and
was planning to do visualization for other projects anyway. I built an extra
little Windows XP machine on the side, and I am very happy to report that GAL
DOES run in XP under VMWare server! (http://www.vmware.com/products/server)
(Hmm... now that I think about it, I'm surprised someone hasn't just built an
old DOS VM with GAL preinstalled and made it available as an appliance. :-) I
may have to toy around with that idea.)
Long live Galactic!
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 13:37, Razmus_Wiese <razmus@...> wrote:
Had occasion to move a machine to Windows 7, and confirmed that GAL doesn't like that environment. Played with it briefly, even trying the visualization options available natively(ish) in Windows 7 including installing an instance of XP as a virtual machine under Windows 7. All without luck.
Recently moved a second, beefier machine to Windows 7 (new desktop machine), and was planning to do visualization for other projects anyway. I built an extra little Windows XP machine on the side, and I am very happy to report that GAL DOES run in XP under VMWare server! (http://www.vmware.com/products/server) (Hmm... now that I think about it, I'm surprised someone hasn't just built an old DOS VM with GAL preinstalled and made it available as an appliance. :-) I may have to toy around with that idea.)
On 17 Aug 2011 at 12:23, galactic@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Had occasion to move a machine to Windows 7, and confirmed that GAL
> doesn't like that environment. Played with it briefly, even trying the
> visualization options available natively(ish) in Windows 7 including
> installing an instance of XP as a virtual machine under Windows 7. All
> without luck.
I'm running it through DosShell v1.7 and it's fine.
On 8/16/2011 6:00 PM, Evyn MacDude wrote:
>
>
> Well I just use DosBox myself...
DosBox here, too. I have it on a USB key and run it on XP,
Vista and 7 depending upon the computer I plug the key into.
Works great!
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