Rob's
Planets Page
Hi.
This site is still in its infancy. The only reason it is here is to allow download of a few small pieces of freeware I have written for Planets. If you don't know what VGA Planets is, please follow the link below for a very good Planets site where you can find a description of Planets:
Hyper is to automate hyperspace calculations. You simply set the destination you want and the software will do the rest of the work for you. This may sound a bit redundant, but it takes care of the rounding in the Host program to ensure that you end up where you want to be. It will also calculate double jumps for you. Click below to download it. There is a text file with it to explain it in more detail.
Hyperspace Calculator (37k)
The following is a spreadsheet for use with MS Excel, ver 5.0 or later.
Engine Spec Calculator (16k)
The
following is a program for removing a specified ship mission from all ships
owned by your race. I wrote it after a small mishap when a Rebel Falcon I
owned, returning to base, Ground Attacked my own homeworld.
I now use it before every turn to remove the Ground Attack mission from all
ships. I then reset the mission only on the ships I want to RGA. It saves on
expensive mistakes.
Dismiss Mission Remover (38k)
Below is a utility for checking whether your ships have cloak failure. It relies on data from your allies.
Cloaked - Cloak failure detector (37k)
MineCode minefield Friendly Code cracker. This checks your messages and ships to see if it can discover the friendly code to enemy minefields. This is not a cheat program and only uses information that is available to players already. It simply carries out a check that takes some time to carry out manually.
MineCode - Minefield Friendly Code detector (42k)
Research Host Add-on. Research is the result of a discussion on the VGA Planets newsgroup about 7 months ago. The discussion was about cloning. We decided that it would be more "realistic" if one were to invest time and money in back-engineering the captured space craft, distribute all the plans to all one's bases, then one could build as many of those ships as required at cost.
Research Host Add-on (170k)
If you need some info on file formats to write some software, here are the file formats I used to write the above software. They were prepared by Stefan Reuther.
His web page is at: http://phost.de/~stefan/
File Formats for VGA Planets 3 (44k)