Re: Just popped in after many years...

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          Simon Challands <simon_usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In message <4b6a41414f.Andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>           newpostcentral@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In message <1c552a3f4f.SimonC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>           Simon Challands <simon_usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> In message <4733bded$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>           "Ian Robinson" <ianr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Ian here, him of Karma fame ;-). Still fire up my acorns, mostly for
code
>>>> dev as StrongEd is still such a good editor.
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>>> Good to hear that you're still keeping a slight eye on us, and still
>>> using RISC OS a bit. Karma was a hugely interesting project (you may
>>> recall me plotting an HR diagram from some of its stars), and nothing
>>> has remotely approached it's ambitiousness in the intervening time.
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>> Can you remind me how people were told about Karma's ambitions? I
>> think I still have the review of the Flight Trainer in a Micro User at
>> home and possibly there was a preview article in the same issue or
>> surrounding issues but that was all AFAIK. It's so long ago, I only
>> vaguely remember reading about other civilisations etc.
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> I seem to recall reading a fair bit about it in one or two magazines
> years ago. I'm sure the first contact Ian mentioned was in there, and
> there were others about seeing ****ps commuting to work, and the whole
> thing linked to the computer's clock.
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What is baffling is how 81 civilisations could be updated continually 
on a 4MHz machine. It would have been good to see ArcElite with more 
continuity throughout the galaxies/universe but surely in both games 
there would have to be a limit on how much is updated at one time. For 
example, space could be divided into sectors and the game would update 
the civilisation when the player enters. But wouldn't that lead to a 
noticeable freeze in the game?

Andrew

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