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Megatraveller Character Generator

Enoff

SOC-13
Have mini vMac on my Win7 computer and can run old MacOS programs like Hypercard. I was taking a look at a Hypercard program to generate Megatraveller characters.

Program
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Sample scout character
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Map of the program, hypercard navigation page
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I'll give more of a review when I've figured it out.
 
Whew

Well done on getting mini VMac running.

Judging from their online documentation you found and imaged an old Mac Plus ROM, and then found the appropriate Apple disk image that matches. Even the process of installing Hypercard and reading in the stack containing the character generator needs added hardware and real saavy.

Hats off,
Mark
 
Well thank you, I can't help but fiddle with things. As you laid out, once I had all those pieces together it runs quite well. I wish I had a version of hypercard that ran on the Android OS, it would be the perfect program. Funny how in some ways the Android interface mimics hypercard.

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Only problem with mini vMac is the desktop is very small
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RunRev.com's livecode is an overtaken version.

MIT App Inventor is simpler than hypercard; unfortunately, it isn't released as a local app, only as a web app. I was up and running with a die-roller in minutes.
 
RunRev.com's livecode is an overtaken version.

MIT App Inventor is simpler than hypercard; unfortunately, it isn't released as a local app, only as a web app. I was up and running with a die-roller in minutes.

Cool, thanks for the info Aramis
 
Well stumbling thru this program, I have some feeling perhaps it was never finished. Seems there is all these tables to generate random physical and psychological features for a character but it doesn't seem to display on the character sheet. Same features come up over an over.

Preference change card
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Physical features
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Psychological features
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I haven't gotten into any easy dialog when reenlisting to choose skill paths.
 
Oh, and I did some digging - LiveCode should import and run Hypertalk stacks, and the community (GPL required on released items) version is free.

I want to play with both some more.
 
Oh, and I did some digging - LiveCode should import and run Hypertalk stacks, and the community (GPL required on released items) version is free.

I want to play with both some more.

The LiveCode page has a Hypercard Vibe about it. Have y'all do much with it?
 
Had to find a way to export files from vMac. Found someone who wrote some programs to import and export, cool.
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So I exported the first file I had made in this hypercard chargen program. I see now that it actually did choose random physical and psychological features, interesting. All the characters are female though, I didn't see a way to choose gender yet.

3 batch generated 3rd Imperial Merchant characters:

Merchant 2nd Officer Brifen In
Race: Human
UPP: 86273A Hits: 3/3 Age: 50
Skills: academic-1, bladeCbt-2, Computer-0, Electronics-2, GravVehicle-0, gunCbt-1, inborn-1, Mechanical-3, physical-1, space-1, spaceCbt-2, Streetwise-4, technical-1, VaccSuit-1, vehicle-1

Physical description: Good-looking female, 193 cm, 70 kg, red-bronze skin, brown hair, blue eyes, wearing rags.

Personality: Sanguine, charismatic
Motivations: AchievementÑis a sadistic brute who enjoys inflicting pain on others; believes that violence and sadism are their own rewards.
AchievementÑwill let nothing stand in way of achieving any goal.

Merchant 3rd Officer Keriikhishaluu Gige
Race: Human
UPP: 834978 Hits: 3/3 Age: 50
Skills: Computer-0, Electronics-2, GravVehicle-0, gunCbt-0, handCbt-2, interpers-1, Mechanical-2, physical-1, space-3, spaceCbt-4, Streetwise-3, technical-1, VaccSuit-1

Physical description: Good-looking female, 193 cm, 51 kg, white skin, dark brown hair, blue eyes, slightly out of style.

Personality: Choleric, restless
Motivations: AchievementÑis scrupulously honest, has contempt for liars and oath-breakers.
InsaneÑmay appear normal, but is completely insane.

Merchant 3rd Officer Nuadkhumkun Khir
Race: Human
UPP: 374378 Hits: 2/3 Age: 46
Skills: academic-4, Computer-0, Electronics-1, GravVehicle-0, gunCbt-1, handCbt-1, Mechanical-1, physical-1, space-3, spaceCbt-1, Streetwise-2, technical-1, VaccSuit-0

Physical description: Good-looking female, 175 cm, 53 kg, white skin with freckles, pure white hair, dark green eyes, wearing rags.

Personality: Sanguine, charismatic
Motivations: RelationshipÑis willing to take responsibility and desires a position of importance; believes best way to gain respect is to show importance.
RelationshipÑis willing to take responsibility and desires a position of importance; believes best way to gain respect is to show importance.
 
Merchant 2nd Officer Brifen In
Race: Human
UPP: 86273A Hits: 3/3 Age: 50
Skills: academic-1, bladeCbt-2, Computer-0, Electronics-2, GravVehicle-0, gunCbt-1, inborn-1, Mechanical-3, physical-1, space-1, spaceCbt-2, Streetwise-4, technical-1, VaccSuit-1, vehicle-1

Physical description: Good-looking female, 193 cm, 70 kg, red-bronze skin, brown hair, blue eyes, wearing rags.

Personality: Sanguine, charismatic
Motivations: AchievementÑis a sadistic brute who enjoys inflicting pain on others; believes that violence and sadism are their own rewards.
AchievementÑwill let nothing stand in way of achieving any goal.

Merchant 3rd Officer Keriikhishaluu Gige
Race: Human
UPP: 834978 Hits: 3/3 Age: 50
Skills: Computer-0, Electronics-2, GravVehicle-0, gunCbt-0, handCbt-2, interpers-1, Mechanical-2, physical-1, space-3, spaceCbt-4, Streetwise-3, technical-1, VaccSuit-1

Physical description: Good-looking female, 193 cm, 51 kg, white skin, dark brown hair, blue eyes, slightly out of style.

Personality: Choleric, restless
Motivations: AchievementÑis scrupulously honest, has contempt for liars and oath-breakers.
InsaneÑmay appear normal, but is completely insane.

Merchant 3rd Officer Nuadkhumkun Khir
Race: Human
UPP: 374378 Hits: 2/3 Age: 46
Skills: academic-4, Computer-0, Electronics-1, GravVehicle-0, gunCbt-1, handCbt-1, Mechanical-1, physical-1, space-3, spaceCbt-1, Streetwise-2, technical-1, VaccSuit-0

Physical description: Good-looking female, 175 cm, 53 kg, white skin with freckles, pure white hair, dark green eyes, wearing rags.

Personality: Sanguine, charismatic
Motivations: RelationshipÑis willing to take responsibility and desires a position of importance; believes best way to gain respect is to show importance.
RelationshipÑis willing to take responsibility and desires a position of importance; believes best way to gain respect is to show importance.

(bolds are mine)

I know it's a minor detail, but I see something wrong with the height/weight relation. Unless something wreid has happened with the "dice roll", the Body Mass Index (18.79 for Brifen In, 13.69 for Keriikhishaluu Gige and 17.31 for Nuadkhumkun Khir) make them quite thin, even bonny.

See that only Brifen In would be seen as having a healthy weight (barely, making her quite thin in any case). In the case of Keriikhishaluu Gige, with BMI well under 15, she's extremely bonny (maybe that has something to do with her insanity ;)).

See that, to avoid inducing to anorexy, most fashion firms don't allow models whose BMI is (IIRC) under 21. I know everybody has his tastes, but I doubt those so thin women could be rated (under general standards) as "good-looking...

Off course, WHO's tables are for Solomani, other human races may vary (IIRC the Darrian are quite slender for Solomani standards)...
 
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Thanks McPerth I hadn't noticed how weird the weights and heights were.

Yes they all start off white good looking female, I think I just glanced at that and assumed the rest was all the same as well. I am sure it must be easy to fix, thats what was so nice about hypercard.
 
I was trying out some other racial and character types and did come up with physical descriptions other than good looking female. Here is my Vargar character, he died trying to re-enlist.

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But when I tried to batch create several Vargar characters the program choked and gave me an error. Here is a look at some of the behind the scenes coding.
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Somehow I stumbled on this card, so you can go in there and edit skills
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Wow, what's this??? Looks like someone has ported mini vMac to Android. I can't believe it!

http://dolfin.github.io/minivmac4android/

Its actually easy to setup mini vMac, I didn't disassemble an old mac or anything like that. Just did a Google search and found a simple website with all the links to the files and how to set it up. There are several Traveller websites that host the old hypercard programs.
 
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Oh my gosh! crazy I got it to work. I am running mini vmac on my android tablet and have hypercard open lol
 
Not very good pictures from my cheap phone but I had to show that I have vmac working on my cheap chinese 7" android tablet.

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Not very good pictures from my cheap phone but I had to show that I have vmac working on my cheap chinese 7" android tablet.
Makes me think it's time to break out The Fool's Errand disks... that game always desperately screamed for touch screen...
 
Got a Apple IIGS emulator to work on my android tablet, going to try and get the IIGS Hypercard to work, it was in color!

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