Re: [TML] Sector file format? Chuck McKnight 09 Nov 2023 01:45 UTC

Sadly no. I remember seeing the format before though I can’t put my finger on where.

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> On Nov 8, 2023, at 7:02 PM, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 18:45:44 -0600, Charles McKnight wrote to Freelance
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>> Sorry, I grabbed the wrong email address for you. :-(
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> The file is indeed pure text, and I've seen that format before - if I'm
> remembering correctly (memory is the second thing to go), that was more
> often seen as "Sunbane SEC format", and I believe that JimV even included a
> converter (SEC2GAL) that would automassage it into a sector (sixteen
> subsectors) for his GALACTIC program (which, I should note, runs perfectly
> well under DOSBox, including AFreeBox on Android).
>
> It would not surprise me if "VMB" stood for "Virtual Map
> B...«something-or-other»".
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