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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''MBMGEMAP''' is a historical starmap package for ''classic Galactic Empire''. It has two parts: a BBS-side database extractor and a player-side DOS map viewer. '''The original package works with classic GE and DOS, not with ge-next or modern operating systems.''' A reworking for ge-next and modern systems is planned, but the linked source is not that reworking.<br />
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== How the original package worked ==<br />
The BBS-side <code>MBMGEMAP</code> program read the classic <code>MBMGEPLT.DAT</code> database during nightly cleanup and wrote a distributable <code>MBMGEPLT.MAP</code> file. Players downloaded that file and opened it with <code>MBMGEGRF</code>, the DOS graphing program, to view a map of discovered sectors. The historical documentation describes GIF and PCX output in the registered viewer.<br />
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The [https://github.com/bsimser/ge/tree/master/mbmgemap surviving source directory] contains the extractor's source and documentation. Its README describes a period distribution disk that also contained executables and the player viewer; those binaries are not present in the linked source directory. This page is therefore a historical reference rather than a promise of a ready-to-run download.<br />
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The extractor uses classic GE's database names and layout. Do not run it against ge-next's live data on the assumption that the formats are interchangeable.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Utilities]]<br />
* [[Sector]]<br />
* [[Database files]]<br />
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