Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO

From: yobbo@shell.portal.com (Livermore Rowdy Yobbos)

Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4nvt1k$a7a@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Alec Habig <ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu> wrote:
>mystro <cg@primenet.com> wrote:
>>Stars players are always trying to compare their little game to the king of
>>Spacewar multiplay games VGA-PLANETS.
>
>Whoa now, the king of spacewar multiplayer games is by all means Netrek.
>

excellent point deleted. [This *is* USENET after all, can't have quality!]

>
>[rest of knee-jerk flame deleted]
>
>
>However, what happens in 6 months, or a year?  Stars has a growing player base.
>Some of those players like to program.  What cosmic mindblock is preventing
>them from writing their own add-ons, given time?
>
	The authors of STARS! (as of 1.0 or so) specifically stated that all
third party work is an infringement of the STARS! user license (or some such
thing). More to the point, the authors don't want any third party utilities.

Most of the knocks on VGAP these days are due to the compatibility
with the 3.X spec, the clever kludge of using friendly codes to add features
is getting out of hand. Tim has addressed that with user definable missions,
but noone seems to be using them... perhaps to maintain compatibility with
DOS planets.

As the previous poster said, [deleted]. I am looking forward to
VGAP 4.0... I am not looking forward to buying Windows 95 just to play
it. At this point I am planning to use Linux by that time. Tim, please
consider this my 1/400000 of a suggestion, please consider designing
the *hosting* section of 4.0 so that it can be run on Linux. That may
be less arduous than designing an X-based client. :-) (Sorry, can't
talk right now, I have my tongue jammed in my cheek)

Scott Emery

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References

Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
"<your name>" <"<your e-mail>"@wpo.sosc.osshe.edu>
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
cg@primenet.com (mystro)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000