PROGRAMMING NOTES
This program was originally written using Turbo  Pascal  3.10,  converted  to 
Turbo 4,  and has now been re-converted for Turbo Pascal 5.00 with the Turbo3 
and Graph3 units.
   It consists of a main program  (WORLDGEN.PAS),  unit  (WG1.TPU,  and  five 
include  files  (WG2.INC  to  WG6.INC)  [source  code  is  only  supplied  to 
registered users].  The development system was  originally  an  IBM  PC,  now 
replaced  by  a  Commodore  PC60 (16 mhz 80386 AT clone).  I've tried to keep 
program speed as high as possible,  but this program needs a fast machine  to 
work  well!  An  Olivetti  M15  portable  (4.77  mhz)  is  used  for 3«" disk 
conversions, speed tests, and monochrome tests. 
   Data files are text,  derived from arrays [0..9,0..9] of  String[40].  The 
first three bytes are coordinates.  Each planet or star is represented by two 
bytes of the string; for most planets the second byte currently does nothing, 
but  this will probably change in future releases.  The record has room for a 
primary (star,  binary pair,  black hole,  etc) and up to 17 orbiting bodies. 
The  final  byte is used for the security option.  When detailed solar system 
information is wanted,  Worldgen uses the coordinates and other data to  seed 
the  random  number  generator  before running pseudo-random mapping and data 
generation procedures.