More great VGAP Tools

Agony v1.0

Torture your opponent to the MAX! Win that game using pure psychological power. Keep sending your opponent(s) (anonymous) messages automatically. Really nasty actually.... :-)

Desciption:

Every time you run Agony it will send a (random) message to the players of your choice. It can do this *w* anonymous, with or without << Universal Message >> header etc.

The current version of Agony only works for VGA-Planets.EXE v3 for DOS. Work is being done on implementing the Winplan version.
Agony is not yet Host999 compatible
Use it at your own risk. FreeWare.

Download Agony now: agony.zip (20 kB)

PlanetNM

This is the second in a series VGA-Planets utils called Timo's Tools. PlanetNM is a small, safe and simple planet naming utility for VGA-Planets. It is originally written as an utility for hosts to create custom PLANET.NM and PLANETXY.DAT files but it is also useful for players.

Just after I finished this tool I noticed more and more planet naming utils. There was a sigh of relief when I tested all those and compared them to my very own PlanetNM: none of them had all the features that I had implemented in PlanetNM or was as simple and flexible. This tool is FreeWare.

The zipped archive includes six sample lists with planet names offering you over 2500 names.

Get it now: planetnm.zip. (43 kB)

ConvCoor

ConvCoor, or Convert Coordinates is the first of a series of VGA-Planets utils called Timo's Tools. This small DOS util will read the coordinates of a starmap (in the xyplan.dat file) and export them to a readable file format. This textfile could be used to import the coordinates into a spreadsheet etc. This fully functioning application is FreeWare. The C++ source code is included.

Get it now: convcoor.zip (18 kB).

GameName

GameName is a (semi-)random name generator. It is simple to use and can be easily expanded to give a wider variety of names. The archive file comes with 7 ready to use names files.

Although GameName was originally written to assist GameMasters by creating new names for their creatures and object in their RPG games, it can also be very handy for VGAP players to help them creating new names for their ships.

GameName was written by Gurth and needs Windows. A DOS version of GameName will be released in the (near) future. If it's released you can find it here, or maybe you want to check out Gurths RPG site yourself.

Get it now: GameName (34 kB)

ShipName

ShipNames v 3.202.2 is a fabulous player utility for Winplan and works under Windows. It makes ship naming very easy for you: it keeps track of all names that are currently in use by you (and by your enemies). It has a database type list which you can use to select new names for your ships - just hit the 'Copy to clipboard' icon and paste the name in the shipname dialogue. Just as simple as that!
ShipNames has also easy features for importing and exporting names to other textfiles and it checks if ship names are already in use. It uses the VPWORKx directories of Winplan to store its files so you can have different shipname files for every game you play. What more do you want?

Update v3.202 has new options: 1. On-line help labels, 2. Shortcuts and 3. Checks for unused names.

The archive comes with a good windows Help file - which is actually not necessary as all controls are very intuitive. There are also nine sample shiplists included, some of them were taken from this page (with permission) while others are brand-new! (As a chemist I have to admit I like the list with the 102 chemical elements.:-) For Trekkies there is _another_ list with 3000 Star Trek related names.

FreeWare by Chris Holz ([email protected]). Don't forget to visit his WWW site.

I've been betatesting it and it's marvellous! Give it a try - and you'll love it! It is small, safe and simple. Check it out - the file is 156 kB: shipnm.zip.

Quattro Pro macro for Sheet.exe

Jerfaas de Jong ([email protected]) has designed a macro for Quattro Pro for Windows. This macro converts the output of Sheet.exe to a nice table.
You can use this macro to get a clear overview of your minerals, supplies etc. every turn.

Get it now: jefsheet.zip (7 kB)