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- Nothing like VGA Planets has ever been tried before.
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- VGA Planets is a multi-player space conquest game for up to
- 11 players. The game is designed so that the players can play
- by modem. The players calls the BBS that is acting as the game
- host or a BBS that is acting as a storage site for files to and
- from a remote computer playing host. The players download a
- small file PLAYER?.RST ( about 2k ). The players then log off
- the host BBS. The whole process can be done in under a minute.
- The file contains data that is expanded into a set of data files
- by a UNPACK program.
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- The players can then go into a VGA graphical program that uses the
- DATA files to show the the player what happened last turn and to
- plan out new moves, order new ships to be built and many other
- activities. The player has all his fun OFFLINE where he isn't
- subject to BBS time limits and isn't tying up a BBS phone line.
- When a player has completed his game turn he quits the main program and
- runs MAKETURN which encodes all the players data files into a
- PLAYER?.TRN file. The player then calls the host BBS again and uploads
- the PLAYER?.TRN file ( 24 bytes or more ) in a matter of seconds.
- Sometime very late at night (in most cases) the BBS gathers up ALL the
- PLAYER?.TRN files for a game and moves them into the HOST directory.
- The HOST.EXE program gobbles up all the PLAYER?.TRN files at once and
- feeds them into the universe's main data files ( *.HST ). The HOST.EXE
- program then gathers up all information important to each player in
- the game and forms a new set of PLAYER?.RST files ( one for each player )
- which are then moved to a download directory, so that the players can
- play out another game turn tomorrow.
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- I you are a New user and want to test this program out fast
- run the following programs.
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- MKDIR TEST 'make test, a sub directory
- MASTER TEST 'make a test universe in the sub directory
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- HOST TEST 'make the games first set of RST files
- UNPACK TEST 'convert the RST files to data files
- PLANETS TEST 'PLAY!
- MAKETURN TEST 'convert data files into TRN files
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- /--> HOST TEST 'convert all TRN files into RST files
- | UNPACK TEST 'convert the RST files to data files
- | PLANETS TEST 'PLAY!
- | MAKETURN TEST 'convert data files into TRN files
- \-----(repeat)
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- LIST OF FILES ON THIS DISK:
- INSTALL.EXE : Install program
- VP300D1.EXE : Host files
- VP300D2.EXE : Data files for host and players
- VP300D3.EXE : Player files
- VP300D4.EXE : Player files
- * PLANETS.EXE : REGISTERED planets program
- * VPUTIL.EXE : Ships and sheet utility programs
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- * On registered disks only
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- ( see PLANETS1.DOC for more info )
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- Tim Wisseman
- Voice: (209) 877-2320
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- Internet Email: cocomax@gorn.echo.com
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