Heh...somewhere buried in my office here at home is (very likely) a moldering DOS3.3 disk with an AppleBasic hexmap drawing program I wrote back in the 80's sometime. (my Apple ][ programming heyday ~'84-'87 or '88-ish, when I got a Mac.)

Much of it was modified from a magazine listing, Nibble, or A+, perhaps?? Those are buried around here somewhere, too; along with my Apple II+ and disk drives (and who knows if they still work!)

I have ended up going with <http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/trianglehex.html>, pen, pencil and scanner :-/

Here's a large collection of "how to do that"'s <http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/>

On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Peter Berghold <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> Since 1977 when I first got my hands on Traveller (geez... that was a long time ago...) I have started off at least a couple of times writing my own mapper/system generation application starting with the TRS80, later the Sinclair and even later still the Commodore 64.   Every time I start the process on Linux I seem to lose interest, get too busy with other things or otherwise get distracted from the task.
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> My latest thinking has been to write one in Java so it can run on many platforms (notice I said "many") and every time I start with that idea I say to myself "oh God... not that again" :-)
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> Just getting readable, nice looking hex maps seems to get in my way every time.
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