Palming It Off (was RE: FT computer files page)

> At 12:44 AM 3/24/00 -0000, "There are those who call me 'Tim'" wrote:

While we're on the topic, has anyone toyed with PalmOS applications to support
the GZGverse? I seem to recall something about a ship designer from some time
back, but wondered if anything else was out there...

> On 24-Mar-00 at 02:26, Jim 'Jiji' Foster (jfoster@kansas.net) wrote:

Well, I use Viewer III to store SSDs of my ships (made with the Gimp). I don't
see a big market for a ship design program, I can find those other places.
What would be wonderful would be something like Viewer III that allowed you to
mark off boxes. I've considered writing this myself, but currently I'm writing
a Perl module for handling ships and fleets in FB using GZF, but that won't
run on a Palm.

From: Roger Books <books@mail.state.fl.us>

> Well, I use Viewer III to store SSDs of my ships (made with the Gimp).

*Drool* That's exactly what I was starting to think about as well. I have
little hope of coding anything, but would love such an application.
_Ideally_ we'd want a Palm OS application in which you select weapons
(from your fleet's available list), rnages, and targets, and the app rolls the
dice, calculates damage, and beams the info over to your opponent's
Palm/Visor/etc, which in turn automatically marks off hull and rolls
thresh
damage for its ships. Now _that's_ a project.

That aside, I still haven't found an application I like to translate a ship
spreadsheet format to an SSD. All the dedicated programs seem cumbersome, and
freehanding it is so time consuming.

> On 24-Mar-00 at 15:53, Izenberg, Noam (Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu) wrote:

Actually, I don't want the die rolling done on the Palm. I have this rather
severe distrust of the random number generators I have seen on the Palm. It's
more fun to roll anyway.

> That aside, I still haven't found an application I like to translate a

I do it by hand, not that big a deal once you have the icons set up.

> Roger Books wrote: