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I can't seem to make sense of the steps to open and play my turn for the game I enrolled in. Am I missing a step by step way to either install the game on my computer and/or to use the site to run my turn and submit all at PlanetsCentral?

Although you can play on the website, that isn't fun yet. I'm working on it.

For now, the recommended way is to use your VGA Planets client locally on your computer. If you're installing anew, I recommend PCC2 because it's the only one that runs natively in Windows and Linux, but if you have a working dosbox installation, you can take anything you wish.

The server will give you two zip files (playerfiles.zip, player11.zip) that you unpack into a fresh directory along with your keyfile. Take your keyfile (fizz.bin) from one of your old games, or mail me privately to assist you in extracting it from your old client/an old game.

If you misplaced one of the zip files, you can always download them from the website.

After you did your turn, you upload the turn file to the website from your game's overview page, or you send an email by replying to the host email, and attach it.

Your game is still waiting for players, so don't have any of the cited files yet.

--Stefan

Thank you! I have VGA Planets on a floppy disk with license but if something works better now-days I would love to attain it. Is that the PCC2 version you were suggesting I install over my VGA Planets?

Thank you! I have VGA Planets on a floppy disk with license but if something works better now-days I would love to attain it. Is that the PCC2 version you were suggesting I install over my VGA Planets?

Use whatever client suits you best. If you're happy with your original VGA Planets, go for it. You can easily install multiple clients in parallel and try them all.

I suggested PCC2 because that's the one that gets most updates nowadays, and because it runs on most PCs without needing emulation. Its playing style is similar to the original VGA Planets clients (planets.exe, Winplan) but with many extensions. Be aware that this server runs PHost (not the original VGA Planets host). PCC2 has support for PHost built in, for other clients you will need PHost's VCR player to watch battles.

--Stefan