Missing Implementations

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ACCRETE 1a/1b

  • Resource Name: n/a
  • Author: Dave Allen
  • Poster/Publisher: n/a
  • Language: IBM Basic
  • Creation Year: <= 1988
  • Source Year: ????
  • Parent: Dole.1969, Dole.1970 or Burdick.1988 most likely
  • Original Source: Missing.
  • Reproducibility: Unreproducible.
  • Key: Allen.????

Dave Allen claims in usml to have written variations of Accrete, 1a to allow captured moons rather than coalesce straight away. The second one, 1b, an attempt to simulate moon systems, as well as potentially an original version.

I cannot currently find any source code of these programs online so his branches are considered to end with him and its hard to see how they fit into the big picture. Most likely given other variations that I do have the source code for, it either comes from a direct recreation of Dole's paper or is based of one of Burdick's early recreations.

SYSTEM 2300

  • Resource Name: n/a
  • Author: Burton Choinski
  • Poster/Publisher: n/a
  • Language: Modula-2
  • Creation Year: 1990
  • Source Year: n/a
  • Parents: Dole.1969, Dole.1970 or Fogg.1985 most likely
  • Original Source: Missing.
  • Reproducibility: Unreproducible.
  • Key: Choinski.????

Choinski wrote a variation on burdick's accrete/starform program for the 2300ad RPG. It uses a combination of the World Builder's Guid, the Director's guide and accrete. I cannot currently find any source code of this program online, so this branch is considered orphaned right now, since I don't know where it fits into the bigger picture.

ACRETE

  • Resource Name: n/a
  • Author: Wales Larrison
  • Poster/Publisher: n/a
  • Language: C ?
  • Creation Year: <= 1992
  • Source Year: n/a
  • Parents: Dole.1969 or Dole.1970 most likely
  • Original Source: Missing.
  • Reproducibility: Unreproducible.
  • Key: Larrison.????

Jon Leech claims that Wales wrote a variation based on Dole's 1970 paper. I cannot currently find any source code of this program online, so this branch is considered orphaned right now, since I don't know where it fits into the bigger picture.

ACRETE

  • Resource Name: n/a
  • Author: Matt Burdick
  • Poster/Publisher: Joe Nowakowski
  • Language: C ?
  • Creation Year: >= 1988
  • Source Year: 1991
  • Parents: Burdick.1988
  • Original Source: Missing.
  • Reproducibility: Unreproducible.
  • Key: Burdick.????

published to comp.sources by Joe Nowakowski but missing in the archives.

Accrete2 / Starform

  • Resource Name: n/a
  • Author: Matt Burdick
  • Poster/Publisher: Philip Hodder
  • Language: C
  • Creation Year: >= 1988
  • Source Year: 1995
  • Parents: Malloy.1993
  • Original Source: Missing.
  • Reproducibility: Unreproducible.
  • Burdick Version: V3.1
  • Key: Hodder.????

A variant of the highest version of Burdick's code that we have source code for. Posted by Hodder, but no cached post lying around as far as I can see.

Accrete2 / Starform

  • Resource Name: n/a
  • Author: Matt Burdick
  • Poster/Publisher: n/a
  • Language: C
  • Creation Year: >= 1988
  • Source Year: 1995
  • Parents: Malloy.1993
  • Original Source: Missing.
  • Reproducibility: Unreproducible.
  • Burdick Version: V3.6
  • Key: Burdick.????

Highest version known to exist of burdick's code. may have put it on an anonymous ftp site