Re: Looking for a "real-time interstellar navigation" program

I wonder what the tod clock on the c64 goes up to..... (or $ti)

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Zoran Davidovac
> <zoran.davidovac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> could it be visible solar system ?
>
> No.  This was a very short BASIC program that was, essentially, a
> smart-assed joke.
>
> You "travelled" to another star at some fixed speed, could have been
> 1c, could have  been much slower.  The gag is that without warp
> drive, are you going to sit there, watching your computer tick down
> the entire distance in real time?  I wanted to find it to see if the code
> even _does_ have an "arrival" routine (vs just a nearly-never-
> ending countdown timer scaled in years).
>
> -ethan
>
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