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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,rec.games.frp,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: Wanted:  AD&D (FRP Game) Data files
Summary: how about a scanner
Message-ID: <364@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 16:20:24 GMT
References: <881214-094231-9680@Xerox>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <881214-094231-9680@Xerox>, "John_R._Luce"@XEROX.COM writes:
= 
= After several years of talking about how great it would be to have software
= to help me be a better GameMaster, Several of my friends and I have decided
= to do something about it, when we're not writing code for our employer.
= 
= What I am looking for is machine readable files, preferably in ASCII text
= with data from the various AD&D sources.  Ie. tables of monsters and related
= statistics, tables of Thief success/fail percentages, etc.  In short any and
= all information that one would normally have to look up in one of the various
= books.   I figure that out of all the people out there, and all the time
= that the game has been out, someone MUST have entered the data into a computer,
= The format of the data is not important, in that we could translate the format
= for our own uses.  
= 
= We will be writing this software under SCO Xenix, so please don't suggest the
= various MS-DOS software packages that are GM Aids, unless they contain information
= in the form of data files as mentioned above.
= 

What you might look into is a scanner.  Many of the scanners on the
market are capable of reading text and doing a good job of converting it
into ascii (or other format) files.  If there are enough of you doing
this you could all chip in and purchase one for a small amount of money
apiece.


Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.

-- 
life used to be so simple.