[OT] resources

Somewhere out on the web is (or was) a freeware program for drawing grids,
including triangular, brick and of course hex grids. I had a copy on my old
computer (R.I.P.). Anyone have suggested locations to

> Laserlight wrote:

Several can be found here (Several are Win 3.1 apps, so no idea how well they
work under Win95 and later):
http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/games/roleplay/programs/pc/

This site claims to have a freely downloadable hex grid editor, but also
requires you to go through this little Java applet thingy to get to the
download page:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/7649/

Delphi developers can find boat-loads of wargame related code (including
hex map code) here:
http://www.silicmdr.com/Freeware.htm

For those unable to run Win32 apps, I have copies of a set of PostScript files
for generating hex grids of various sizes by a fellow named Burton Choinski in
1989. The neat thing about them is that you customize the grid layout
(including hexes within hexes) by changing some variables
defined (and nicely documented) at the start of each file.  I can e-mail
them to anyone who is interested. The four of them are about 7k zipped and as
far as I know they are freely distributable.

> Laserlight wrote:

Turned this up right after I sent the previous message.

At the bottom of this web-page, under "GM Assistance" you can find the
PS hex-map files I refer to in my earlier message, plus one more, along
with PDF samples of the output:

http://www.sjgames.com/sjgames/gurps/utilities/