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Here's the latest work I've done updating Tim's original resource.pln.

There are a few odd changes from altpln2.

#1: You'll note that the B41 is now a borg diamond.
#2: MBR is enhanced.
#3: Armed Transport doesn't look anything like the SW ship.
#4: Thor/Kittyhawk is somewhat different.

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RANDMAX is written by Steffen Pietsch and manages your planets:
It randomizes friendly codes, taxes your natives and builds factories and mines according to an ini file.

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AutoTroll is designed to completely automate the task of hosting VGA Planets.

v2.00 - 01/21/07 : Release Date

• Fixed bug with IMPORT command inside a cycle, an extra ']' was showing.
• Added template sort variables PlayerRank, PlayerRankPoints, PlayerClass. See Cycling and Sorting.
• Added template sort variables PlayerRank, PlayerRankPoints, PlayerClass. See Cycling and Sorting.
• Note: The data file structure has changed, after upgrading to this version you cannot downgrade.
• Added $Choice12...$Choice24 e-mail command variables to set the new player variables.
• Added [Player.Choice12]...[Player.Choice24] template variables to show new player variable values.
• Added 13 new player variables for integer data settable in e-mail commands or player dialog.
• Modified player choice1..11 variables to accept any integer instead of just 1..11.
• When editing player description, 'Save' button wasn't being enabled.
• New 'Notes " memo editable on players dialog. No maximum length.
• Removed maximum length of 255 characters from player Description field. Now no maximum.
• New [Game.Memo] template variable corresponding to new field.
• New 'Memo' text field for games like the description fields, but has no maximum length.
• Changed application icon to old Red Troll icon.
• Fixed compile of built-in help file (.chm). Broken since v1.51.
• Organized libraries and rebuilt dependencies for AutoTroll.
• Fixed bogus "expiration" message and program exit.
  

©1996-2007 Ben Stout

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This is an unofficial update to EchoView from the author Stefan Glasauer. Doc's for updating your EchoView are included.

EchoView is a player utility for Tim Wisseman's famous PBEM game VGAPlanets . It will help you to plan your actions and to keep track of all the events and data during the game. EchoView is not a player interface, it's a starchart and database program with lots of inbuilt utilities such as hyperwarp help, data export functions, PHOST command interface and much more.

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PLAYVCR is a portable VCR player. This archive contains the program precompiled for Win32 (i.e. Windows 95/NT and later). PLAYVCR plays battles from Tim's Host 3.x, and from PHost 2.4 and later in the same environment. It can play player files (VCRx.DAT) and host files (VCR.HST). It uses DirectX when possible, but also runs without. It uses a pretty advanced display engine (i.e. not just triangles and crosses :-) The December version adds stereo sound. Since the March 2003 version it supports PHost 4.

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RANDMAX is written by Steffen Pietsch and manages your planets:
It randomizes friendly codes, taxes your natives and builds factories and mines according to an ini file.

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Planets Command Center (or PCC for short) is a complete front-end program for Planets. It started as a message-reading and starcharts-with-ion-storms tool in late 1995, and can now be used to play complete turns.

PCC is freeware. It will maintain the shareware limitations of Planets if you don't have registered an original client program, and it will benefit of your registration if you have one.

PCC runs on any computer from a 386 onwards. It is a DOS program, but has been tested under Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, and in Linux's DOSEMU; and may even run on NT. For best comfort, use anything that has 66+ MHz and some Megs of RAM.

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What I've tried to do is incorporate all vga planets reference material into one file. (Docs, formulas, help articles, etc.) The format is Excel. The reason I made this guide was because I got tired of looking through multiple docs and web sites trying to find information I needed and/or wanted.

Microsoft Excel is required to view this document.