Re: ALL TIME TOP STRATEGY GAME From: cg@primenet.com (mystro) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000 In article <45b7je$62f@nnrp2.nfs.primenet.com>, dsharerl@ brill.princeton.edu (doc) wrote: > > Greetings all, we were doing a survey using several years of >Cumputer Gaming World mag as our reference and it seems only a >few games have made the upper echelon over a five year period. One >of them is Tim Wisseman's VGA-PLANETS..the multi-player space war >game that played via the internet. It seems that this game has >a huge following of over a 100,000 players worldwide and its own >Usenet group (alt.games.vga-planets) that also seems to be one >of the highest traffic groups of this genre on the net! > Question..could some of you players bring us up to date on >this game and how its played? One review said it was MOO but >against human players instead of AI...can this game also be played >against just the computer? Thanks for more info. VGA-Planets is one of the few games that never gets old,one reason why it has lasted so long. You playing against 11 human players and no two games are ever the same. Theres so many support programers for the game I can't begin to list them, but this game is the most fully support game on the internet.I'll attach a list of some of the major sites for VGAP util below this message. The lastest version is 3.5 for windows but the 3.0 dos game is completely compatable..the windows version however is not shareware whereas 3.0 for dos is both freeware and shareware (reg). Usenet:alt.games.vga-planets Heres just some of the info on VGA-Planets from Darren Gedye: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ VGA-Planets is a graphical Sci-Fi Play-By-EMail type game written by Tim Wisseman (cocomax@aol.com). You control one of eleven different races striving for supremacy of your local star cluster. This game may be played on a Bulletin Board, across the Internet, or even on a single computer. A shareware version of this game is available: ftp://ftp.wilmington.net/vgaplanets/version3/vp300.zip This package contains the Planets 3.0 Dos Client program and version 3.14 of the Host program. The Client is Shareware and the Host is Freeware. Each of the players need the Client program to view their results and give their orders, and one person uses the Host program to process those orders and generate new results. There is a new Windows Client called WinPlan 3.5, however it is not available as shareware. There is also a more recent version of the Host program, Host 3.2. It is freeware and has some additional features. ftp://ftp.wilmington.net/vgaplanets/host32/hst320.zip There is also a third party Host program called PHost. It runs faster than the original Host and is available for different platforms, but is slightly different in operation to the original Host. http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~asterian/phost.html The Shareware package also contains several document files. Please READ them! There are also other documents available that may prove helpful. Recommended are Eden Tan's Infolist (http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~edentan/infolistv3.0.html), the FAQ for Alt.Games.VGA-Planets, and the newsgroup's hintfile. The FAQ maintainer is Gordy Pine (gpine@oz.net) These are some sites carrying VGA-Planets stuff. If you want to be considerate then try to avoid normal working hours for the sites. Remember that a site can appear to be "down" if it is overloaded, so you may need to try again later. ANONYMOUS FTP SITES: ftp://ftp.wilmington.net/vgaplanets Tim Wisseman's Site. Here you can find the latest releases of the official software and authorised add-ons. There is little third party software though. ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/pc/msdos/games/vgaplanets THE ftp site. The biggest, the best, the busiest. Located in Berlin, Germany. ftp://ftp.erg.sri.com/pub/pbm/vga_planets This site allows uploads from it's incoming directory, so it is the place to get the very latest stuff. ftp://ftp.solace.mh.se/pub/msdos/games/VGA-Planets In Sweden ftp://bucket.ualr.edu/pub/vgap ftp://faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/mounts/gonzo/pds/freeware/softwa re/dos/games/planets ftp://moonbase.wwc.edu/pub/planets ftp://ftp.onwe.co.za/pub/VGAPlanets This Site has the latest Informer & Afsim utilities from Sean Martens, nothing else. ftp://ftp.catt.ncsu.edu/pub/msdos/games/vga-planets Once a major site, but now no longer being maintained. Useful for old software. ftp://berlin.snafu.de/pub/vgapl Please don't use this site for downloading. WORLD WIDE WEB PAGES: http://www.io.com/~nclegg/vga-planets.html The mini FAQ page. The html version of the alt.games.vga-planets mini-FAQ. Aimed at newcomers, it contains a short introduction and a (hopefully) up-to-date list of sites & links. Maintained by D.Gedye@irl.cri.nz, but actually in Arizona, USA http://www.primenet.com/~nospin/vgap.html Nospin site. Shareware copy, links, utilities, local copies. http://www.teleport.com/~goldman/vgap.html Ted Yorks page. Docs, utilities, local copies. http://www.imagi.net/~sshepher/vgap/index.html The Neutral Zone! You'll find a basic intro to VGAP, a brief guide for playing VGAP over the net, FTP & WWW Site list, and extensive local archive. The archive is organized with forms, with basic info, and rating of the programs. Maintained by sshepher@imagi.net (Scott Shepherd) http://www.tfh-berlin.de/usr1/odd/s590165/public_html/games/vgaplanets.h tml Carnivogue. -Info, links. In Germany. http://www.primenet.com/~cam/ Cyber connection -Info, links. Check out the dreadlord battle manual! In Idaho, USA. http://brahms.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/stud/gcwilhel/english/Planets /PlanetsHome.html Carsten Pinnow's page. -Links, German documentation. http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~neffets/vgapl.html Steffen Pietsch's page. Links, and the latest version of the randmax auto planet-managing utility. In Germany. http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~cvenour/planets Corey's "The Zone" -Intro,shareware copy, good lists. In Australia. http://www.wilmington.net/vgaplanets The Official Home Page. Contains ordering information. http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~asterian/phost.html PHost homepage. Contains all the latest PHost stuff, The Portable Host Development Kit, plus the latest versions of utilities with PHost support. http://pop.onwe.co.za/rhino Rhino Software. (Sean Martens Page). Contains links to the utilities Informer & Afsim. http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~edentan Eden Tan's homepage. Eden is the compiler of The Infolist, a _must-have_ concise reference sheet. http://www.oslonett.no/home/janeik/vgaplan.html Jan Eikeland's page. -order form & a few links. http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~gorik/Vgaplanets/ Gorik's experimental page. -Info, links. In Belgium. http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~bos/hotlist.html Bos' -Planmap header & file definitions. In the Netherlands. http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~cmckeith/home.html Cliff Mc Keithan's homepage. Contains a copy of the dominate cplayer utility. http://www.cybercomm.net/~eculp/tgot.html The Gamemasters of Triskelion http://galahad.xstor.com/~todds/vgahost.htm Todd Schacherl's page http://www2.brecknet.com/vga/vga.html Ryan Power's page http://www.webcom.com/~fpu/vgap/vgap.html Franscesco Urbano's page. Its in Italian. Other than that I can't tell you much. http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9026828 The first Austrian VGA Planets page If you know of any FTP sites or Web pages not listed here please mail me the URL and I'll include them. If you want to contribute a description of any of the sites listed here feel free. Any other suggestions? Mail: D.Gedye@irl.cri.nz Darren Gedye <>< D.Gedye@irl.cri.nz http://www.irl.cri.nz/~gedyed _________________________________________________________ The mini-FAQ, which includes a list of FTP & WWW sites is at: http://www.io.com/~nclegg/vga-planets.html or send me a message with "vgap-help" as the subject. ie: SUBJECT: vgap-help Referenced By Up