Re: The Best Games?

From: cg@primenet.com (Mystro)

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3tki99$3t4@newsbf02.news.aol.com> snake6283@aol.com (Snake6283) writes:
>From: snake6283@aol.com (Snake6283)
>Subject: The Best Games?
>Date: 7 Jul 1995 20:08:09 -0400

>    I'm looking for some suggestions on good PBM's and PBEM's.  Please
>E-Mail me or post here.  Thanks.

Thats not an easy question, but Computer Gaming World says the best
pbem multi-player strategic game is VGA-Planets spacewar game..it even
has its own very popular usenet group(s) at:alt.games.vga-planets. Its
fully supported and updated buy its author and theres even a shareware
version along with the commercial. Here some of the many ftp sites where
you can get the game and some of it utilities.

If you want to be considerate then use the site closest to you and avoid
normal working hours. Remember that a site can appear to be "down" if it is
overloaded; if so, try again later.

**** ANONYMOUS FTP SITES:
ftp.catt.ncsu.edu (152.1.43.33) /pub/msdos/games/vga-planets
www.cahs.colostate.edu (129.82.159.34) /pub/archive/planets
ftp.fu-berlin.de (160.45.10.6) /pub/pc/msdos/games/vgaplanets
bucket.ualr.edu (144.167.10.237) /pub/vgap
ftp.erg.sri.com (128.18.110.65) /pub/pbm/vga_planets
faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.2.43)
    /mounts/gonzo/pds/freeware/software/dos/games/planets
berlin.snafu.de /pub/vgapl
ftp.onwe.co.za (196.7.192.3) /pub/VGAPlanets
     - This has the latest informer & afsim from Sean Martens

**** WORLD WIDE WEB PAGES:
http://www.cahs.colostate.edu/planets.html
http://www.tfh-berlin.de/usr1/odd/s590165/public_html/games/vgaplanets.html
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~gorik/Vgaplanets/
http://primenet.com/~cam/
http://www_tios.cs.utwente.nl/~bos/hotlist.html
http://brahms.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/stud/gcwilhel/english/PlanetsHome.html
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~neffets/vgapl.html  (RANDMAX homepage)
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~cvenour/planets
http://www.oslonett.no/home/janeik

**** CHECK OUT THESE HELPFUL TEXT FILES HELD AT THE SITES:
Infolist.doc, Vga-faq.zip, Vga-hint.zip, File-faq.zip

**** UTILITIES:
These sites also contain many extra utilities.  Which (if any)
you use is a matter of personal preference, but I suggest you
take a look at the following:

One of these is helpful to view things:
Informer inf24.zip  [Dos] Shareware -$5
Crystal Ball vp3cb214.zip [Windows] Freeware

These are battle simulators:
(Don't pick a fight you can't win  :-> )
Afsim131.zip [Dos] Shareware -$5
Bsim2.zip [Dos] Freeware

Managers for your planetary commands:
Randmax rans-2d4.zip [Dos] Freeware
Auto301.zip [Dos] Freeware

Computer player cp302.zip [Dos] Freeware
Note: I don't recommend this because
 it is no substitute for playing against real people
but it will tune you up for the real war against
11 humans.

References

The Best Games?
snake6283@aol.com (Snake6283)
Fri, 07 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000