VPA

Client to play VGAPplanets or planets.nu

Brought to you by: lastberserker, sfplanets, streu, xeye5

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Last Update: 2023-06-24

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VGA Planets Assistant (VPA) is a client program for VGA Planets PBEM game.

Requires: Dosbox from https://www.dosbox.com

It works with original host (THOST: www.vgaplanets.com) and Portable Host (PHost: www.phost.de, phost-contrib.sf.net, hosted by https://planetscentral.com) and the new web-based NU-Host (https://www.planets.nu) by using additional tool streu's c2nu.pl (https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2nu). Maintained by sfplanets.

Features

- requires Dosbox
- plays Tim Host and PHost
- plays new planets.nu with streu's c2nu.pl
- database for historic turns
- easy and convienient gameplay
- best 90s retro feeling

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Categories

Turn Based Strategy

License

Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)

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getid3 Posted 2011-03-28
5 out of 5 stars

Best VGA Planets client bar none. Now if only there was a Windows port it would be perfect :)
sfplanets Posted 2011-02-24
5 out of 5 stars

Cool APP

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Languages

English, Russian

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop

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Pascal Turn Based Strategy Game

Registered

2002-01-27

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