Re: STARS! Multiplayer FTP site!

From: rbarrett@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Rich Barrette)

Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <D9Fupz.JE4@boss.cs.ohiou.edu>,
Rich Barrette <rbarrett@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> wrote:
>

Sorry about that empty post!  Here's what I intended:

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* Announcing the STARS! Multiplayer FTP Site *
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Sick of VGAP?  Want to play STARS! against humans,
but can't find a BBS to play it on?  Don't want to
mess around with yucky uuencode/decode?  Well look
no further!

I have set up an anonymous FTP site specifically
for STARS! games.  There are several README files
that have info on where to start to make contacts
for STARS! games.

The directory hierarchy is thus:

The directory:  ~ftp/pub/stars/players has a file
called TEMPLATE in it that you can fill out with
your personal information such as name and email
address as well as good times to play.  Please read
the README file, it is really short!

The directory:  ~ftp/pub/stars/games is for the
actual games themselves.  Please get the README
in that directory to find out how to set up a
game.

The directory:  ~ftp/pub/stars/dist contains the
shareware version of STARS!

The site is: ftp://www.ohiou.edu/pub/stars

I will write a HOWTO soon, so look for it!

Thanks for listening :)  Looking forward to playing
you in STARS!

What is STARS!?  This is from the README:

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What's Stars! all about?
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Stars! is the only full-blown interstellar strategy game for Microsoft
Windows that's fast-paced and simple to play while allowing you to carry out
complex and clever strategies. You'll build starships, discover and colonize
new planets, research new technologies, manage the essential elements of
world economies, defend your empire and (no guarantees here) destroy all
your enemies. One or more people can play, on a single machine, across a
network, over modems, email or computer bulletin boards.  Complex computer
players are available for both single and multi player games.

It is similar to Master of Orion and VGAPlanets.

Peace,
-Rich
--
Rich Barrette  rbarrett@zatharusta.cs.ohiou.edu
http://www.ohiou.edu/~rbarrett/webaholics/ver2/

References

STARS! Multiplayer FTP site!
rbarrett@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Rich Barrette)
Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000