Ahhh the power of Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_2.2 even has a remake down load too!
--- On Thu, 1/9/11, John Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Alexander <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Update on my projects & etc... To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 23:30 Sounds quite doable even with the original QL. Obviously the N-body problem requires the order of n^2 calculations per iteration so the "doable" bit depends highly on the size of (n). I would maybe recalculate the changes in Acceleration due to distant bodies less often as this would change less. I did something similar in the '80's. To be honest the problem is not the CPU power but the fact that the game play can be a bit boring with real physics and distances for most people. I remember that a game millennium 2.2 on the Amiga had a nice compromise on reality/game play/resource management... Any one remember this game ?? some ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSpace_2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Trader --- On Thu, 1/9/11, Dave Park <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dave Park <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Update on my projects & etc... To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 20:35 On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:38 PM, John Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > So what are you writing this Game in and what exactly are you having > difficulty in processing within this "1 second". With out knowing this I > think any advice would be > opinion at best. The first program is a game, pure and simple. Based on the Lunar Lander idea, you control a ship with limited fuel - you are presented with a solar system of moving gravitational bodies, and you must fly missions from body to body without running out of fuel. So, for example, you might have to fly from a small world to a large one, therefore need to save your fuel for the landing portion, whilst avoiding two black holes and an asteroid belt, or you might have to land on a comet, then change its orbit to collide with a moon, etc. It's pretty, and requires some thought in play. There is some thought of maybe adding an Elite-esque trading element between worlds, to buy fuel... The model is super-realistic - it allows for the n-body problem, has variable thrust, and the ship accelerates more for a given thrust as it gets lighter/burns fuel. There are some worlds were your ship is simply too heavy with fuel tanks to take off. The second program is an Air Traffic Control simulator. Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
