Play By E-Mail - VGA-Planets

The following is in English, because that is the language normally used in VGA-Planets games (VGAP).

How Can I Begin?

The Idea behind VGA Planets

For the player

• Introduction to VGA-Planets (Einführung) for older MSDOS
• VGAP Mini-FAQ
• How it works (with visual imagination)
• RandMAX a player utility for managing planets (written by Steffen P.) - Last Release v2.g on 2006/09/27 now maintained by Thomas Voigt
• official old site from 1991 are closed, 2021-project now is planet.nu how new version is 4beta, but a lot of players like to [play version 3.5][vgap1] (for Windows, for older MSDOS there is an 3.0-version). Look for „New Players Start Here“.

For the programmer

There are lot of add-ons, utilities and host-replacements.

PHOST

The Portable Host Project
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Is an replacement for the official Tim- host.exe . Goal is the independence from windows, so it will run on dos/windows and almost any kind of UNIX-systems.

• PHOST main page
• Utilities

Other Topics / Related

• Newsgroup alt-games.vga-planets
• RandMAX Doc-Infos