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Thank you for correcting the wiki !!

I'm very glad Celestia didn't inherit any of the clumsy code I wrote for Stargate.

Now that's settled, I can have some fun roaming the nearby stars...

Nik

Er, sorry, no, that 'space invaders' clone was NOT LSG's 'Stargate- The 3D Planetarium'. IIRC, modes included orthogonal, perspective with selectable vanishing point & 'tank'. You could have stars appear as balls on sticks to show Z-axis. Blob size could show distance-corrected brightness. You c...

Moody Blues' 'Forever Autumn', but only the version on Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' album.

I'm partly tone-deaf, but that haunting track *engages* with my range...

Regret no link available...

Unfortunately, I started writing about 'real' exo-planets when only Peter van de Kamp was hunting them. I was okay until a couple turned out to have red/brown dwarf companions instead of gas-giants. Some hasty ret-conning fixed those. Then, the flood-gates opened and the HotJupiters appeared. They d...

Hi, I came across a comment in the wiki for the long defunct Liverpool Software Gazette... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Software_Gazette : One small program, Star Gate, written in Apple II BASIC and published in the fourth edition even became the basis for a complete astronomy program know...