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  • INTRODUCTION - THIS FILE IS FOR PROGRAMMERS ONLY
    • Contents
    • On Cheating
    • Basics
    • File Names
    • Specialties
    • Special Thanks
    • Sections of this file
    • Programs mentioned in this List
  • CHANGES
  • PLAYER DATA
    • Winplan Shareware
    • AUTOx.DAT - Winplan - Auto stuff [T]
    • BDATAx.DAT - New Base Data [V]
    • CONTRLx.DAT - Winplan - Checksums
    • FIZZ.BIN - Even more checksums
    • GAMESTAT.DAT - Winplan - Game Definitions [T]
    • GENx.DAT - General Information
    • INIT.TMP - Player List
    • KOREx.DAT - Winplan - Starcharts
    • MDATAx.DAT - Received Messages
    • MESSx.DAT - Sent Messages
    • MESS35x.DAT - Winplan - Sent Messages
    • NOTESx.DAT - Winplan - Notes [T]
    • PDATAx.DAT - New Planet Data [V]
    • PATH.DAT - Game Directory
    • RN.DAT - Winplan - RACE.NM Treatment
    • SHIPx.DAT - New Ship data [V]
    • SHIPXYx.DAT - Ship coordinates
    • SKOREx.DAT - Winplan - Extended Ufo Database [T]
    • SNOOKER.DAT - Winplan - TempLock Deluxe
    • TARGETx.DAT - Visible enemy ships ("Contacts") [V]
    • TASKx.DAT - Winplan - Auto Tasks [T]
    • TEMP.PLN - Temporary file
    • TEMPLOCK.DAT - Checksums
    • UTILx.DAT - PHost - Information for Client Programs [V]
    • VCRx.DAT - Visual Combat Recordings
    • VCRINIT.TMP - Temporary file
  • TRN FILE
    • Identification of TRN files
    • Valid Commands
    • Attachments
  • RST FILE
    • Sections
    • Winplan data
  • HOST DATA
    • AUXDATA.HST - PHost - Miscellaneous [V]
    • BDATA.HST - Starbase Data [V]
    • BUFF.TMP - Temporary File
    • CLOAKC.HST - Cloak & Shield State [V]
    • ETEMPx.TMP - Temporary File
    • EXTMINES.HST - PHost - Minefields
    • GEN.HST - Passwords and other
    • GREY.HST - Miscellaneous
    • HCONFIG.HST - Configuration [V]
    • LASTTURN.HST - Timestamp
    • MESS.OLD - Old Messages (=sent last turn)
    • MESSPNT.OLD - Pointers to Old messages
    • MINES.HST - Mine fields
    • NEXTTURN.HST - Timestamp
    • OLDFIG.HST - Host Configuration
    • PDATA.HST - Planet data
    • PHONEY.HST - Hull Remapping Hook
    • REFDATA.HST - Victory Conditions [T]
    • SHIP.HST - Ship Data
    • SHIPSCAN.EXT - PHost - Ship Scan Information [V]
    • SHIPXY.HST - Ship Coordinates
    • TONS.HST - Ship tons "sunk" this turn [V]
    • TONS2.HST - Ship tech sunk this turn [T]
    • UFO.HST - Ufos, 3rd party additions [V]
    • UTIL.TMP - PHost - Temporary UTILx.DAT Files [T]/[V]
    • UTILx.EXT - PHost - Add-on Information [V]
    • VCR.HST - VCRs
    • XTERNCMD.EXT - PHost - External Commands
    • XTRFCODE.TXT - PHost - Special Friendly Codes
    • XYPLAN.DAT - Planet coordinates
  • FIXED DATA
    • BEAMSPEC.DAT - Beam weapons [V]
    • ENGSPEC.DAT - Engines [V]
    • FRIDAY.DAT - SRace - Race Assignments
    • HULLFUNC.DAT - PHost - Hull Functionalities [V]
    • HULLSPEC.DAT - Starship Hulls [V]
    • LANG.PLN - Host Language [V]
    • MISSION.INI - Winplan - Missions
    • PLANET.NM - Planet names
    • PLANGxx.HST - PHost - Language Data
    • PLNHELP.DAT - Help texts
    • RACE.NM - Race names
    • REG.KEY - Winplan - Registration Key
    • RESOURCE.PLN - Pictures
    • SCRAM21.OLE - Winplan - Registration Protection
    • STORM.NM - Names for Ion storms
    • TECH.MOF - Font
    • TORPSPEC.DAT - Torpedoes [V]
    • TRUEHULL.DAT - Assignment Player <-> Starship Hulls
    • VPH35.DLL - Version 3.5 Signatures
    • WPVCR.DLL - Winplan - Images for the Winplan VCR [T]
    • XYPLAN.DAT - Planet Coordinates
  • ALL CHECKSUMS AT A GLANCE
    • CONTRLx.DAT
    • FIZZ.BIN
    • GENx.DAT
    • TEMPLOCK.DAT
    • Static files
    • Other Files
  • DATA OF 3rd PARTY PROGRAMS - CLIENT SIDE
    • AFSIM.SAV - AFSim - Saved simulation setup [T]
    • .CCB - PCC, CCBSim - Battle simulations [V]
    • CC.RES - PCC - Resources [V]
    • CHARTx.CC - PCC - Starchart entries [V]
    • CMDx.TXT - Additional Commands [V]
    • CPx.CC - PCC - PHost Command Processor Commands (obsolete) [V]
    • DISTTABL.DAT - Distance Table [V]
    • FLAKx.DAT - FLAK - Combat Recordings [V]
    • FLEETx.CC - PCC - Fleet Information [V]
    • .FNT - PCC - Fonts [V]
    • HULLSPEC.CC - PCC - Extended Hull Specification (obsolete) [V]
    • INF.Gx - Informer - Game Definition [T]
    • INFNOTES.Gx - Informer - Notes [T]
    • .KFB - TKF - Saved battle setup [T]
    • KFVCRx.DAT - TKF - Battles [T]
    • .LANG - PCC2 - Language File [V]
    • MESSx.CC - PCC - Message-related Stuff (obsolete) [V]
    • MSGx.INI - PCC/VPA - Message Configuration [V]
    • OBJx.CC - PCC - Objects in the starcharts (obsolete) [V]
    • PVIEW.NTP - PView - Notepad
    • .QC - PCC2 - Compiled Script [V]
    • SCORE.CC - PCC2 - Score Statistics [V]
    • SCRIPTx.CC - PCC2 - Virtual Machine State (Scripts) [V]
    • .SEL - PCC - Saved Selection [V]
    • STAT.CC - PCC - Statistics [V]
    • TEAMx.CC - PCC - Team Settings [V]
    • VMx.CC - PCC - Virtual Machine State [V]
    • VPAx.DB - VPA - Database [T]
    • VPAMSG.DAT - VPA - Message Information [T]
    • VPAMSGx.DAT - VPA - Message Information [T]
  • DATA OF 3rd PARTY PROGRAMS - HOST SIDE
    • ALIENS!.HST - Aliens! - Hosting Information [T]
    • AUXHULL.DAT - VPEdit/VPHost - Auxiliary Hull Data [T]
    • DEVSPEC.DAT - VPEdit/VPHost - Device Information [T]
    • EXPLMAP.HST - Explore Map - Seen Planets [T]
    • KFROBO.HST - TKF - Result Information [V]
    • KFTONS.HST - TKF - Tons score [V]
    • TEAMS.DAT - PTScore - Teams [T]
    • VPMOVIE.TMP - VGA Planets Movie Recorder (VPMC) - State of the World [T]
    • .VPM - VGA Planets Movie Player (VPMPLAY, VPMC) - Movie [T]
  • FILE LIST - WHO OWNS WHAT
  • FIELD LIST - WHAT IS STORED WHERE
    • Starships
    • Planets & Starbases
    • Messages
    • Other
  • AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT
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