steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) (06/19/88)
I while back (almost a year I believe) I downloaded a program written in assembly that displays a 3-d starfield on the screen. It was written by Andrew Tuline, and was quite good, mainly because it was one of the few programs I had found that actually included some assembly source code. But in the docs, it says a newer version is on the works, and I was wondering if anyone has seen this version, or if it even exists.. UUCP: ....!crash!pro-charlotte!steelie | Pro-Charlotte - (704) 567-0029 ARPA: crash!pro-charlotte!steelie@nosc.mil| 300/1200/2400 baud 24 hrs/day INET: steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com | Log in as "register"
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (06/20/88)
In article <3132@crash.cts.com> steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes: >I while back (almost a year I believe) I downloaded a program written >in assembly that displays a 3-d starfield on the screen. It was >written by Andrew Tuline, and was quite good, mainly because it was >one of the few programs I had found that actually included some assembly >source code. But in the docs, it says a newer version is on the works, >and I was wondering if anyone has seen this version, or if it even >exists.. Well, there's bad news on this front. Trailing Edge Technologies had a programmer assigned to the task of completing a more thourough implentation of a stellar simulation. Work was progressing well; several types of stars were modelled, including a nebula. We then got a piece of Email, and I guote: ".. and just got, yes, it looks like the black hole simulation work. . . . ." And that was it. He is gone. His desk is gone, my stapler that i lent him is gone, everything. So don't look for a new release of ``stars'' soon. -- "Shrimp Ahoy" richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard