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WinDemo
Play against the computer player using winplan, helpful in learning to play the game. Requires winplan installed on your system.
Download: windemo.zip ( July 30th, 2002)
VGAPTool
GUI Frontend for HOST.EXE, helps you host games.
Download: VGAPTool.zip (Updated March 3rd, 2002)
The Last Domain VGA Planets Archive
Echolist 2
Excel Sheet For Echoview
An excel-sheet (97/2000) for Echoview 1.2 or
better
It works with the three DBF files from echoview.
Download: echolist2.zip (Updated Feb 1, 2001)
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Well, the dream of every VGA Planets player is to become a game host (isn't it?). To serve this dream Bernd Ruf has a solution for you - his PlanetMasters Host Control Center/32 (PHCC)! |
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Version 103
Tactical VCR is a mass combat system, which uses
specific tactics,
speeds and primary target sets for each ship. By using varying
tactics
fleets will be better able to engage the enemy in battle and
survive.
Ships are no longer be required to go in and slug it out at point
blank
range until they are dead.
Version 3.05 April 23, 2000
SpaceLord is a substitute for a human player in
VGA Planets (version 3). It
can be used to play against if no human players are available or
it can be
used to replace human players who are no longer playing.
Unlike all other similar programs known to us, SpaceLord is a
player-side tool.
That means it uses the data from RST-Files to generate the data
for TRN-Files
instead of writing to the host data directly. It once did that,
but we have
changed that bad habbit...
This means that the SpaceLord does NOT cheat. Period. It doesn't
cheat because
we don't want it to and because it simply can't without the host
noticing it.
A sophisticated host enhancer.
The world famous player utility, star chart and database for VGA Planets for MS Windows.
Jupiter is an add-on that combines the power and
convenience from Nemesis and Gryphon with even more features,
including alliance support,
host-999, Windows Help file, and windows config program with
global on/off switches for Nemesis and Gryphon abilities. With 68
special abilities designed for both power and convenience and
over 120 configurable options, you will never lack an appropriate
tool to rain destruction on your opponents!
With the addon Unity every player getīs several options to backstab his enemy or support his economy, like amorphous support, remote minefield laying or free torpedo building, just to give three examples. It has also unique options like renaming planets and races without host interference.
THIS IS A FREEWARE PROGRAM
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to click on Make TRN in Winplan and automatically have your TRN file emailed to your VGAP Host! Well now you can! Gain complete control (or lack of) your TRN Files.
Overlord - VGA Planets Hosting Editor
Overlord is a Windows based, host side utility for VGA Planets
games.
Overlord was written to assist a person in hosting a VGA Planets
game.
It has the ability to ADD, DELETE, and MODIFY just about
everything
associated with VGAP. Some
uses include creating game scenarios, monitoring game progress,
editing
planets, starbases, ships, ion
storms, mine fields, some UFO add-ons, and creating a final
battle.
AHOST / ABHOST
AHOST is a addon for VGA Planets. For more information ahost.txt
Or you can download it by clicking here: ahost10.zip
AHOST is no longer supported, however there is a new version of AHost known as ABHost written by another programmer at the ABHost web site
Dec 16, 1998
Wormhole v5. A VGA Planets add-on. Wormholes allow instant movement across the galaxy, but they're not always very safe.
Tolls now detect the alliance feature you included in the host program. It's a complete assembly rewrite of my program which uses about 1/10th the memory of the original. Worm holes will even act like ion storms. They appear, move a bit, then vanish to be replaced with new holes.
Set an alliance-limit and watch it
Give one or more of your planets to an ally per planet fc
Make big battleships
Take 6 more beamweapons to your existing 4
Make out of one of your old tubs with tech 6 engines a nice tech
10 speeder
Let your damaged ships be repaired wherever they are
Your bases lay, sweep and scoop up minefields
Maintain an account on the starbank
Build / destroy / repair / search stable wormholes and of course
fly through them
Generate a final battle with all ships at the center of the
universe
Buy and sell ships... and so on ... and so on ...
No annoying writing in any auxhost?.ini's or cryptic config-files
any more! The Gambler has its' own setup. You can use all
functions together, or only a single one, as you desire.
The Gambler is a dpmi based program. That means you need a
dpmi-server to run the gambler.exe. It runs under all systems
which can support dpmi-memory. Also unix / linux-users can use
The Gambler but they have to use the dos-emu. OS2 and
Windows-users don't need a dpmi-server because these systems have
its own. The Gambler has been written for host / host999 and the
phost and was tested under these programs.
AKR is a program for VGA-Planets v3.xx to delete whole races like the killrace.exe's for host and phost. But it works with both versions of host (also host999) / it deletes more as the original programs / it's easy to use and faster. It's a part of The Gambler v4.xx. This stand alone exe is only for user who don't want to use The Gambler for each game and want in spite of it a single killrace.exe for both host versions.
March 15, 1998
HTMLhull creates a HTML file from a HULLSPEC.DAT file. FREEWARE.
June 15, 1998
Version 1.30.000
Advanced VCR is an addon program that allows to resolve battles
at higher level of details than HOST.EXE. Other news include
Intercept & Cloak mission, support for ship-lists with up to
20 beams, 20 tubes, 20 fighter bays and more...The Advanced VCR
Viewer (VCR.EXE) has been released also as separate product. The
Advanced VCR Viewer now handle and display internally the battles
generated by HOST, and may be used without the AVCR add-on !
Requires HOST Version 3.22.017 or better
June 15, 1998
Version 1.20.000
Companion for VGA Planets HOST
by Maurizio Benvenuti ( mauroben@mbox.vol.it ).
This addon adds these new fuctions:
Graphon adds new abilities designed for power (such as Asteroid Bases, Moving Mines, Fighter Steal, Fighter Base Assault, Antifighter Mines, Tanks and Combat Robots, Orbital Bombardment, and Warp Interdictors) and convenicence (such as Ion Control, Exchange Ships, Sell mines/defenses/Starbases, Move Natives, and Space Gambling). Never before could you have and add-on with 40 new abilities and almost 100 configurable options for balancing them against one another. With Gryphon, you will never lack an appropriate tool to rain destruction on your opponents!
Armaggedon
1.4 a add-on for VGA Planets 3.x
You are a VGA Planets host and want to end your game in a really
brain-blasting way? You love fireworks and label
yourself as pyromaniac?
Then Armaggedon is what you've searched for! It will
generate a final battle at a definable point at
the universe.
FREEWARE by ViSiON
Arts
Author is Matthias Bauer <moeffju@mfju.handshake.de>
Surrender 3.2c a add-on for VGA Planets 3.x
When the situation becomes hopeless (e.g. you lost all good
bases), many people tell host to KILLRACE them. But many people
think that this is unfair. When you battle a race to death, you
want to get something from this. With Surrender, this
becomes possible. You can surrender to your enemies, giving them
your planets, bases, ships and even minefields (all host
configurable). But your enemy doesn't have to acknowledge this
surrender, so he can fight you to the last if he wants. To
perform a surrender with giving away everything he must
acknowledge.
Surrender gives you a completely new aspect in VGA
Planets.
FREEWARE by ViSiON Arts
Author is Matthias Bauer <moeffju@mfju.handshake.de>
June 15, 1998
This program allow you to know all of ships-list you're using in
yours VGAP Games. The user-friendly interface (Windows 95 style)
and his special features, put Ships 97 in the elite of ships-list
displayer programs.
Sept 26, 1997
For VGA Planets
(Host 3.20 or greater)
Trade is an add-on for VGA Planets. This program allows you to
buy and sell ships between all the races of the Echo Cluster.
Jump
to the home page of Trade
FTP: Download Trade Addon
Version 0.60 á
Sept 3, 1997
1BANCO is an Add-On for VGA Planets. This Add-On allows you to buy and sell minerals, supplies and fighters in the Corsarian's Stock Exchange and to deposit money in the Bank (to collect interest). The Bank will even allow you to request loans!
The Corsarians are shrewd investors. They know they are bringing a valuable commodity to the Echo Cluster; as such, the prices of the stuff in the Corsarian Satellites will rise, and fall, to meet supply and demand.
Trade is an add-on for VGA Planets. This program allows you to
buy
and sell ships between all the races of the Echo Cluster.
The echo cluster is a small area of space, where some races have
some disagreements with their territories, they are trying to
expand them-
selves, trying to make their Empire more powerful. Not far away
from there,
a Corsarian station has stopped to investigate the abnormal
movement of the
area, and they sent several ships to collect some imformation
about the
trade possibilities.
The Corsarians looked astonished that those races' low engine
tech
levels, and that they take a lot of time to move themselves
between the
planets. Thanks to the high dominance of hyperspace, the
Corsarians
offered their services to their new neighbors.
FTP: Download Trade 1.3
Sept 2, 1997
Routeplan is a dos utility for VGA-Planets, which manages trivial fleet infrastructure tasks. You can use it to set up a route, by defining a set of waypoints, and then tell it what a ship should do at that waypoint.
You can have a ship
A powerful tool to administrate your infrastructure.
Aug 24, 1997
Sphere v. 1.2
Overview -
Sphere is a host add-on product for VGA Planets. It will
convert any VGA Planets map that adheres to the standard
coordinate system (1000 to 3000) into a torus, allowing ships
that travel off one side of the map to reappear on the opposite
side (e.g. a ship on the southern edge of the map can travel 100
lys south and be at the northern edge of the map). The default
"seam" is 50 lys from the edge of the standard (i.e. X
or Y <950 or X or Y> 3050) but this may be configured to accomodate
"compressed maps" (e.g. a map of 350 planets with all
planets between 1500 and 2500).
This should make the game a bit tougher. No longer can a player put all his forces on his front lines and leave his rear areas undefended. The increasingly popular "Invasion" games should be a bit more challenging as Homeworlds may come under attack from the other side of the map. It should also end the complaint of those players who find themselves stuck in a corner of the map without any decent planets - just move to another corner.
History -
version 1.0 - Released
version 1.1 - Universe Seam made configurable
version 1.2 - Bug with tracking ships the turn they went over the
seam fixed.
Execution moved to take advantage of new host AuxBC.ini - this
makes travelling
across the seam a natural part of movement. Ships may be attack
(or be attacked),
pillage, RGA the same turn they arrive over the seam. This is not
possible when
Sphere is run in Auxhost2.ini (the only thing available when
Sphere was first written).
FTP: Download Sphere Version 1.2
Aug 15, 1997
ZedPlan is a tracking utility for VGA Planets. Over the course of
a game, ZedPlan will track the histories of ships, planets,
bases, and scores, and provides a one-stop-shop for your
favourite VGA Planets tools. For Windows 95 and NT.
Updated Aug 7, 1998
Score helper
SCORE.LOG -> HTML converter
A fully configurable, feature rich HTML Creation Utililty that
let's you create the look and feel of your web page. Now you are
not confined to what others feel a web page should look like. You
can create a new design or use an existing page. Dynamically post
Scores, Player Names and/or Email addresses all while keeping the
style of your site. The Web is not a static place anymore.
If you run VGA PLANETS and have a WEB PAGE, YOU NEED THIS!!! This will read you SCORE.LOG on all your games, and will make a HTM file for your web page. It will also let the viewer send EMAIL to the players if they have E-MAIL address
Most players are just regular Leaders of a race, but to be a real Tyrant you've got to control the flow of information very, very tightly! The one who knows the most has the best chance to win. So the whole deal is to squeeze the most information out of your game data.
Tyranny will read your game data and compare your empire to all other empires using easy ratios and percentages. It will keep track of the maximum number of ships, planets, starbases. It will also show you the differences between the game data of the previous turn, the current game and the maximum number of ships, planets etc. recorded.
Tyranny was written to be called from a DOS batch file every turn, and writes the statistics to a plain text output file. It will therefore run smoothly in the background and you only have to view this output file to get the most recent info. Tyranny offers information no other VGAP util gives. An ultimate challenge for the statistic freaks.
Tyranny is the third in a series VGAP utils called Timo's
Tools.
Tyranny is considered to be ShareWare. This ShareWare version
available for downloading here will be fully functional in till
august 1997. After that it will only work for all first 25 turns
of any game. An unlimited version is available by the author for
an equivalent of US$ 5. Please read the information enclosed in
the Tyranny archive file for details. This release includes
Hypertext formatted (HTML) docs. Unzip the TDOC_HTM.ZIP file into
a separate directory.
Update info:
August 23, 1998v1.2 May 1997 * added a config file with to give the user more
control over Tyranny.
* modified the command line interface
* bugfix: games without capital ships caused
Tyranny to crash (Wandering Tribes scenario)
v1.1 April 1997 * added an option to select the races to display in
the Stats.txt file.
* modified the command line interface
* added Priority Build Point parameters
v1.0 November 1996 Initial Release
Get it now: tyrann12.zip. (83 kB)
Admiral
Cplayer - The first and worst of the breed
FTP: Download Cplayer
Web Site of: Hier bekommst du die neusten Versionen unserer Programme.
Radiation from battles over planets fall into the planets atmosphere. The amount per VCR depends on the type and number of weapons used. A planet will pick up some of the radiation discharged in battle. This usually won't be too harmful unless a series of battles takes place over a single planet.
T_FORMER speeds the terraforming of planets. For every three turns that a planet is being terraformed an additional degree of temperature change is gained per ship. If a ship leaves a planet and then comes back the sequence starts over. Here's a small idea of the increased terraforming.
ATMAILS.ZIP - A RST-mailer for PC-Eudora
FTP: Download
atmails.zip (18k)
ATMAP2.ZIP - A starmap generator
FTP: Download
atmap2.zip (56k)
Wildcat 4.0 door written in wcCode
FTP: Download
wvpi-15.zip (146k)
Wildcat 5.0 door written in wcCode
FTP: Download
mgplan20.zip (81k)
This utility allow players to send really easly their player?.trn over ftn nets (Fidonet Tecnology Network) as netmail uuencoded/zipped to the host. Format is *.MSG. A complete log will trace turn number, date, time, wich player?.trn as be sent. A copy of the player?.trn copy made as player?.xxx (xxx is turn number).
Player utility: make backup in progress (zipped file with turn number as ext.)
This is a very simple utility for Vga Planets Host. With multiple (!) purpose:
1) It allow you to control what player?.trn are present before hosting, and stamp it on a log file called hstutils.log. It will also make a stattrn.log file that will conserve the history of all turn processing with there turn number (+1).
2) It allow you to make a more readable score.log, with the turn number, individual player score and (if found teams.nm) team score. Optional with tons score.
FTP: Download hstutils
This small host helper program reads the message data on the host system after host runs and generates a text news file that reports on battles that have taken place.
FTP: Download vpnews 1.0
Dan Gale and Dave Killingsworth have released several add-on programs for VGA Planets, such as Race Plus, Star Base Plus and many others. Dan's Page
Captain Dave's Page Dave's Page
This is a 3rd party addon for host 3.2
This VGA Planets add-on is an effort to "populate" the VGA Planets landscape, a feature wished for in the Planets newsgroup and elsewhere. It is a known fact, that the average distance between stars is about 3-4 light years (ly). However, not every star has a habitable planet. That is why the average distance between the VGAP planets is often tens or more ly. With the help of Super Nova add-on, these "uninhabitable" and therefore invisible on the maps stars can explode, or "go super-nova", inflicting tremendous amounts of damage to the neighboring space, destroying or damaging ships, planetary structures, and other types of hardware. The challenge here is to make maximum use of these nova stars, towing them closer to the enemy territory and detonating them as close as possible to his planets or ships (and then possibly move in with your own starfleet, mopping up the remnants of the enemy's damaged planets and shattered economy). FTP: Download Super Nova Host Addon