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- From: robbiew@txs.uscourts.gov (Robbie Westmoreland)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.design
- Subject: REVIEW - Centennia Map Software
- Date: 8 Feb 1995 09:57:23 -0600
-
- I recently bought the Centennia software from Clockwork. This program is
- a set of maps of Europe from 1000 AD through 1993, showing country
- borders, major cities and rivers and including brief discussions of
- important events and people. I think that this software is going to be
- very useful for my Ars Magica sagas and conceivably for other gaming
- purposes as well. I also intend to make extensive use of the software
- for my upcoming graduate history studies.
-
- The area covered is Europe from England and Spain in the west to the
- Volga river in the east, and from northern Scandinavia in the north
- to north Africa in the south. The Holy Land is included, as are some
- parts of Persia/Iran and the western shores of the Caspian Sea. It
- boasts over 9000 border changes.
-
- The program has several useful features. There is a separate map for
- each tenth of a year for the entire period, and each map can be viewed
- on a large scale or zooming in fairly close up. Maps can be viewed with
- or without cities, city names, country names or extended country
- descriptions. It is possible to view several years running, either
- backwards or forwards in time, and the program can provide "headlines"
- for major events as they occur. At any time during viewing, the
- program can be stopped and the user can zoom in or out, jump to another
- year, change the area of Europe on screen or change the features that
- are shown.
-
- Map images can be exported to TIFF or PCX format files, with options
- for color, shading or black/white features. WordPerfect had no problem
- pulling these images in and printing them with pretty decent resolution.
- Each image is copyrighted by Centennia and says so in very small print
- along the bottom.
-
- I bought Centennia for DOS. The graphics were VGA, and the interface
- was mouse-driven, with pull-down menus. As far as I know, they don't
- currently support other platforms, such as Macintosh, Windows or OS/2,
- but they are under development - platform switch will be $25 US. The
- program cost $89.00 US including shipping within the U.S. Data is
- upgraded for $10 US at least through 1996. Contact information is as
- follows:
- Clockwork Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 148036
- Chicago, IL 60614
- USA
- (312)281-3132
- clockwk@delphi.com
- --
- Robbie Westmoreland, Administrative Analyst U.S. District/Bankruptcy Court
- [pcatsc!]pctxsd!robbiew (CourtNet) Southern District of Texas
- robbiew@txs.uscourts.gov (Internet) (713)250-5436
- The bureaucracy is lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...
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