RUN ASSEMBLE

Due to programmer upgrades, you can now use ASS[emble] from the command line without saying "RUN".

Once you have built a bunch of ships and assigned them to Fleets or via the MOBILIZE command, you may also want to put them in one place for strategic or tactical reasons. The RUN ASSEMBLE does this.

It will take all ships in a Fleet and set their courses to a single location on a water coordinate of an island. For example, to ASSEMBLE your fleet at the Northwest corner of an island, put them at coordinate 1,1.

GOTCHA: This program will abort if any ship in the specified Fleet is docked. You'll be returned to the Empire command prompt. Simply Undock the offending ship and RUN ASSEMBLE again.

Not having the source code, I gleaned from the output that RUN ASSEMBLE does the following:

  • Prompts you for an Input Log. (I typically answer "No").
  • Prompts you for an Output Log. (I typically answer "No").
  • Program file? (I enter a carriage return.)
  • What is your nation's name or number (Default = n)?
  • What is your nation's password (Default = )?
  • Assembling from island number: (Give it the Island number.)
  • Assemble fleet number: (Should have ASSigned a fleet first.)
  • Destination X: Give it the Island's X coordinate.
  • Destination Y: Give it the Island's Y coordinate.

    It then cycles through each ship in the fleet. If a ship does not have enough movement time left, it will inform you at the coordinate where the ship ran out.

    A sample listing follows. I used the ships generated in the previous RUN MOBILIZE example. I put user input in bold: 
    [ISLAND: 44:0 ]:RUN ASSEMBLE 
ASSEMBLE 1.0 (c) 1987-1989 by Steve Sagi

Captain, should I keep a log of empire input? (Default = NO) 
Captain, should I keep a log of empire output? (Default = NO) 
Program file? (Default = EMPIRE.PUB) 
What is your nation's name or number (Default = 0)? n
What is your nation's password (Default = )? xxxxxx 
Assembling from island number:1
Assemble fleet number:1
Destination X:1
Destination Y:17
  *** Battleship 15 has no time at 0,10 ***
  *** Cruiser 16 has no time at 0,5 ***
Destroyer 17 at destination point
Destroyer 18 at destination point
  *** Submarine 19 has no time at 0,9 ***
  *** Submarine 20 has no time at 0,9 ***

[ISLAND : 4/0]:
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