What happened to the Traveller News Service Generator?

[Graham2001]

I stumbled across documentation for this at a dubious website called 'The Trove' which seems to host material taken from the Internet Archive along with games currently under release.

I tried a Google search for the program itself as it looked quite useful, but all I could find was a thread on this board announcing it's existence.

Did anyone save a copy of the program as I think it's a really good idea, particularly if it could be linked to the Traveller Map in some way.

 

[Graham2001]

Here is a link to a thread I found announcing it's existence (The link in board goes to another part of RPGpub and requires registration to download.)

Traveller News Service random news generator

Black Vulmea submitted a new resource: Traveller News Service random news generator - Generates random news story seeds This freeware from 2004 generates random news stories from the Travellers News Service; Read more about this resource...

www.rpgpub.com

However a poster on that thread reveals that it was an implementation of hand-rolled generator posted on the Freelance Traveller page. An newer automated implementation would be a great boon to referees/GMs as the original implementation dates from 2004.

Freelance Traveller - Doing It My Way - TNS Quick and Easy

 

[ZhodaniBob]

Hey, mate. I did a quick port of the Freelance Traveller article (Traveller News Service random news generator) to Perchance. I also linked back to the source article. Feel free to click away. You're right. This is a good one that I would love to expand on!