The Convergence Zone Mon, 8 Aug 94 Volume 18 : Issue 01 Topics: (01) Editorial cz-request@stsci.edu (02) Anouncing a Harpoon WWW pg Gene_Moreau@MBnet.MB.CA (03) HARPOON II lapointe@npt.nuwc.navy.mil.code83 (04) archive request (05) Programs to preform calc.. (06) Mac software released ? Michael.A.Ney@cc.gettysburg.edu (07) US Navy Carriers Future "The Convergence Zone" (or just "CZ" for short) is an electronic mailing list for the discussion of the Harpoon naval wargame series and related topics. Submissions: cz@stsci.edu Administration: cz-request@stsci.edu Archives: anonymous FTP for CZ and Computer Scenarios (Amiga, Mac, PC) N.A. sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca (129.100.100.12): pub/harpoon Europe ftp.cs.vu.nl (192.31.231.42): harpoon jumi.lut.fi (157.24.10.9): pub/harpoon Scenario Archive Administrators Amiga: lcline@agora.rain.com (Larry Cline) Macintosh: gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow) PC: riiali@kannel.lut.fi (Pekka Riiali) Drop Off Site: jumi.lut.fi (157.24.10.9) pub/harpoon/incoming Please send e-mail to the appropriate administrator when dropping off scenarios! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 94 12:21:00 EDT From: cz-request@stsci.edu Subject: Editorial New members since last time: (Larry Stephens) (Rick Stil) (Gary Ratterree) (Phillip Sloan) (Cris Hutto) (Stephen Blair) (Jon Diorio) (Mark C. Orton) <2AG4BOOKM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> (Matthew Book) (Robin John Lee) (Tom Goodwin) (Marek Gorecki) (Mark A. Campbell) (John Maclean) (P A Wallace-Pugh) (CHARLES P. GREIG) (James Thompson) () (J. R. Stoner) (Eric Anderson) (Mike Wisner) (Dan Schulz) (Michael Beer) (James Jurkiewicz) ( Mark Hanna ) () (David McLellan) (Larry Bair) (Roger Bohn) <70734.177@compuserve.com> (roger moore) (J.E. Simmonds) (Hank Ingram) (Jon B. Johansen) (Ken Cook) (Robert Simons) (Kevin Hodgkinson) (Jeremy Waters) (Darren Bostock) (Anthony Panek) (Mark Minnich) (Douglas R Wieringa) (Jason Williams) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 18:39:31 -0600 From: Gene_Moreau@MBnet.MB.CA (Gene Moreau) Subject: Anouncing a Harpoon WWW page Well, I got bored this after noon so I decided to set up a Harpoon WWW page. For those who are interested the URL is: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~moreau/harpoon.html It's not much at the moment. If you have any corrections (not spelling, I'll find those on my own) or suggestions for content let me know. Right now it's kinda experimental, so there are bound to be bugs. Hope you enjoy it. Gene Moreau, moreau@mbnet.mb.ca Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada <-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-> "Hi, I'm a SEAL and I do dumb things. I'd like some wine for my men, hay for my horses and mud for my turtle." - Richard Marcinko ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 11:59:15 EST From: lapointe@npt.nuwc.navy.mil.code83 Subject: HARPOON II WARNING WILL ROBINSON WARNING I just tried Harpoon II. WHAT A DOG. The interface is ok, I still like the old interface better, and yes you can refuel. But the game is dog slow. I am running this game on a 486DX2 50 MHz Local Bus machine with 100MB free disk space and 4MB of memory and it looks like I am running on my old 8Mhz 286. I called the Tech support line and got the "You have to understand how much the game is doing" Oh please. If I bought a flight simulator game and the graphics were great but the screen rate was 1 Hz would that be an allowable responce. And I am not talking large scenerios here, 1 carrier group, a few planes, 1 bad guy SAG and 1 bad guy base. Hey, 360 Take a hint. FIX THE SPEED. Imagine this machine on a 25 Mhz 386 or 486SX. I would give up the accuracy of the model go get the speed back. It is only a game not what I plan to do all week. To all of the Harpoon users : AVOID THIS GAME UNTIL 360 FIXES IT I'll stick with Harpoon I. Now only if I could get 360 to sell the source code so that I could modifiy it to my likeing !! These are personal comments and do not reflect my employer ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jul 1994 13:55:52 -0700 From: Ric Testagrossa Subject: archive request I'm still using Harpoon 1.21 (and enjoying it!), and I just downloaded some of the archive files from ftp.cs.vu.nl hoping to find more of the hints/techniques that I've seen from this group. Unfortunately, I can't read any of the compressed archive files. I've tried using the suggested program for DOS uncompression of ".Z" files (comp430d.zip), but every time I try it on an archived file I get the error message "file token bad". So I have several questions. Has anyone else had this same problem; ie. are the files corrupted on the server? The instructions on the comp430d.zip program are very vague; I may be doing something wrong. I give the program the command uncomp v10.Z Am I missing some step or parameter? Does anyone have some of the older archive files (v8-v12) in an uncompressed format that you can send me? Thanks for any help you can give. rtestagrossa@pimacc.pima.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 10:42:58 -0600 (CST) From: "Antero Cepeda R." Subject: Programs to preform calculations Hello Hapooners!, Arriving from vacations I found the CZ FAQ and it said: > o HAS ANYONE WRITTEN ANY KIND OF PROGRAM OR SPREADSHEET TO ASSIST > HARPOON REFEREE'S IN PERFORMING TEDIOUS, OFTEN REPEATED > CALCULATIONS? I used to play Harpoon often (those good 'ol undergrad times :), and I made several programs for my HP-48SX to keep track of the position and detection of different units on the board. Unfortunately, I don't have them any more, but can write them again if there is people out there interested in having them and willing to beta-test. They should run on the HP-28s, and HP-48 series. If you are interested, e-mail me, and tell me what should be included in these programs. I'm very rusted on my RPL programming skills and the Board Harpoon rules, so please be patient. -- Antero Cepeda e-mail: acepeda@academ01.mty.itesm.mx Information Systems Dept. Voice: +52 (8) 358-2000 ext. 4600 ITESM, Monterrey Campus, Mexico ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:59:27 -0500 From: Michael.A.Ney@cc.gettysburg.edu (Michael A. Ney) Subject: Mac software released ? Has the Mac upgrade for Harpoon been released yet ? I've ordered my upgrade (6 weeks ago) and at the time the release date was still July 15. Has anybody received their (Mac) copy yet ? Mike Michael A Ney Information Resources Division Gettysburg College Neym@Gettysburg.edu ext 7012 "Sometimes I wonder if this big electronic world might become a bit too helpful." Me - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 18:58:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Lee Puffer Subject: US Navy Carriers Future ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri Jul 29 18:34:57 1994 From:navnews@tecnet2.jcte.jcs.mil To: 62037@brahms.udel.edu Subject: Navy News Service 046/94 - 28 Jul 94 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Navy News Service - NAVNEWS BY EMAIL - navnews@opnav-emh.navy.mil ----------------------------------------------------------------- NAVY NEWS SERVICE - 28 JUL 94 - NAVNEWS 046/94 Editor's Note This Navy News Service message follows NAVNEWS 045/94 DTG 272300Z Jul. 94. NAVNEWS 046/94 is being released as a means of providing more timely information to the fleet. -USN- NNS496. New Aircraft Carrier Homeporting Plan Announced WASHINGTON (NNS) -- For Sailors stationed on aircraft carriers, the future of their ships' homeport just became a little clearer. A new plan, which details proposed CVN/CV homeporting out to FY 08, recently was approved. Aircraft carriers will continue to be homeported in Norfolk, Mayport, San Diego and Bremerton, Wash., while the new homeport in Everett, Wash. will receive a carrier in 1996. One carrier will continue to be forward-deployed, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. Quality of life and deployment schedules were major factors in the homeporting decisions. "The lives of more than 40,000 Sailors and their families will eventually be affected, that's why we need to plan so far in advance," said VADM Skip Bowman, Chief of Naval Personnel. "Planning ahead now lets us minimize the impact these changes will have on our Sailors later when they are implemented." The moves also are based on force structure requirements, 1993 base closure decisions, nuclear carrier maintenance requirements, ships' maintenance schedules and the ratio of nuclear-powered carriers to conventionally powered carriers. The Navy's newest homeport in Everett, Wash. is planning on getting USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) from Alameda, Calif. in 1996 as a result of base closure actions. USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) will also change homeport from Alameda to Washington State, slated to arrive in Bremerton in 1996. John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and United States (CVN 75), the Navy's newest nuclear carriers, will arrive in their new homeports of San Diego and Norfolk, respectively, when completed in 1998. CVN 76, the as yet un-named new carrier, also will be homeported in in San Diego in 2005. Details of the homeporting plan follow: COMNAVAIRPAC: Ship Current New Date USS Independence (CV 62) Yokosuka North Island FY 98 Decom. FY 98 USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) North Island No change USS Constellation (CV 64) North Island Yokosuka FY 98 USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Bremerton Newport News FY 98 North Island FY 01 USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Alameda Bremerton 1996 USS Lincoln (CVN 72) Alameda Bremerton 1995 Everett 1996 Stennis (CVN 74) Newport News North Island FY 98 CVN 76 Newport News North Island FY 05 COMNAVAIRLANT: Ship Current New Date USS Saratoga (CV 60) Mayport Decom. FY 94 USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Newport News Norfolk FY 94 USS America (CV 66) Norfolk Decom. FY 96 USS Kennedy (CV 67) Philadelphia Mayport FY 95 USS Eisenhower (CVN 69) Norfolk Newport News 1995 USS Roosevelt (CVN 71) Norfolk Newport News FY 08 USS Washington (CVN 73) Norfolk Newport News FY 01 United States (CVN 75) Newport News Norfolk FY 98 ------------------------------ End of CZ Digest V18 Issue #01 ******************************