From TradeWars Museum
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Author Name
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| Tim Wisseman
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Year Written
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| 1992
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Application Type
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| TW Like
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For Version
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| All Versions
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Download
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| VGAP300.ZIP
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Description
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| VGA Planets is meant to be a Play By E-Mail game for up to 11 players. One person hosts the game by gathering up all the mail packets from all the players and running a Host program and sending the result mail packets back to all the players.
The game universe exists only on the Host computer. The players interact with the universe by sending files to and from the Host.
Ideally the game should be on a BBS. This may be the perfect game for all those one line BBS's out there. Once a day at a preset time (clean up time?) the BBS computer copies all the uploaded game packets into the game directory and runs the HOST.EXE Program. The BBS computer then copies all the result gamepackets to a directory that the players can then download from.
Hopefully all you sysops out there will be able figure out a way to set up VGA Planets. I would really like to hear from any sysops out there that get VGA Planets up and working.
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Though VGA Planets developed independently from TradeWars, Wisseman states that he was a fan of TradeWars, and that he was influenced by it in designing VGA Planets 4.