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- Imp Professional, my AD&D Dungeon Master's Assistant for the Amiga line of
- computers is finally at a level stable and useful enough for it's first
- official beta test release. If this is the first you've heard of Imp
- Professional, I will introduce it.
-
- Many of you Amiga users have seen my original Imp program and have
- expressed interest in such a program. I have abandoned the original Imp
- and have moved on to a more modular and powerful version (and added
- "Professional" to the title, making it sound more impressive! :)
-
- Features as of 0.242 beta:
-
- - Dice rolling module with 12 configurable die buttons and standard
- die string interpretation
-
- - Dungeon module with 16 brushes and a re-sizable dungeon view for making
- and viewing dungeons. Eventually this will also generate random
- dungeons. Unlimited brushes are also on my To-Do list
-
- - Clock module that keeps track of days, hours, turns, rounds, segments,
- and seconds. Also provided is an alarm feature for such things as
- spell durations.
-
- - Encounter module which keeps track of monster HP and vital information
- on each monster generated from an exensive database. Also keeps track
- of XP earned for killing a monster which can then be imported into
- the Experience module.
-
- - Experience module keeps track of each characters current XP and any
- applicable bonuses. Can share XP between characters as well. XP
- from the Encounter module can be imported and shared between
- PCs or given to just one.
-
- - Horse generation module
-
- - City profession generator
-
- - Game Log module keeps a log of the current game. Each entry is
- stamped with the current game time provided by the clock module.
-
- - The NetSpellbook and NetSwordbook incorporated into the program
- using the hypertext browser AmigaGuide. (1200 spells and 130 swords!!)
-
- The documentation is not complete, but some is provided. A standard CBM
- Installer script is provided for easy installation.
-
- The GUI is currently being re-worked to be more object-oriented and to
- font adapt better.
-
- I'm looking for a few more (3-5) beta testers for this program. Please
- sign up only if you have the time and inclination to really test this
- sucker out and give me lots of feedback. I've had a few betatesters take
- the program and never mail me back.
-
- Imp Professional requires:
-
- -- Amiga (any model)
- -- At least 1MB of memory (more is better)
- -- Workbench 2.04 or better (more features with 3.0+)
- -- A hard disk is required for the spells and sword database as they
- are immense! (Spells are 1.7MB!)
- -- Commodore's Installer program for easy installation
-
- Please mail me at the address in my signature to get on my beta tester
- mailing list. ImpPro will be mailed to you UUEncoded so be sure that
- your mailbox can handle large files (100K or so). If I must, I'll chop
- it up into smaller chunks that your mailbox can hopefully digest it.
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
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- | Zach Forsyth // Amiga | E-mail: fors0037@gold.tc.umn.edu |
- | \X/ 4000/040 | University of Minnesota Institute of Tech |
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