| Alberto's Most Incomplete, Undocumented and Badly Coded Stars! Mapper, Analyzer and Simulator | The name almost completes the description. The programmer has indicated that he is working on a new version. Mokulen: Games: Stars! |
| Astrolabe | Still being developed. Red Moon |
| Chaff Sweep | A program that estimates the number of chaff needed to "chaff sweep" a minefield. Currently this utility is making its home at the Stars! Directory. |
| The Encyclopedia Link Generator | A utility that allows webmasters to automatically generate links of key words from HTML pages at their site to The Stars! Encyclopedia (you will need to download the index file also). It is intended for use with strategy articles. The Stars! Directory |
| The Generator | The last time I checked this file was not available at The Mystery Guild. I am assuming for now it has not been finished (or there are some bugs to be fixed). When available it will nearly completely automate hosting through email. |
| Genesis | Creates Spiral Galaxy map files. The Mystery Guild |
| GPS | An automatic game/email processor. ShadowGuard |
| Growth | A very small utility that calculates a given percentage of a planet's maximum population with a number of features to make it more useful than just a calculator. Stars! Player |
| HABS | A small DOS program that guesses at the habitability of planets. The Stars! Utility Site |
| Host Runner | Allows a host to manage several games at once. Quality IX |
| Inter-Stellar Reveller | A utility that allows easy blitzing through ICQ. Inter-Stellar Reveller |
| MailMan2 | A POP3 utility to check for new messages and their attachments. Written to help with hosting. The Stars! Player |
| N8 | Automates turn generation regardless of email platform. Red Moon |
| Speedsend | A macro for Outlook 2000 that automates turn mailing and generation. |
| StarEd | A utility with a slick interface that allows players to completely modify the various items and hulls of Stars! Users can create files allowing others to copy the changes and host new games with different items. Pirates Retreat |
| StarFire | A hosting utility that utilizes MAPI email clients (only works with 32 bit operating systems). It checks turns when new email arrives. Jai's Stars! Page |
| Starmap! | Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation. Starmap! |
| Stars! Calculator | Calculates packet damage, fuel consumption, etc. Very convenient to run while playing the game. Starway to the Galaxies and (for now) The Stars! Directory |
| Stars! Client | A utility that manages backups and also reduces the work in using a email client with Stars! It is designed to work specifically with Eudora, but still looks useful to players using other email programs. Lunar State Industrial Institute |
| Stars Editor | Changes the "guts" of Stars. Be warned that it permanently modifies the game, so make sure you have a backup. Stars! Tech Page |
| Stars Game Generator | Automates creating Stars! game.def files allowing hosts to easily set up a without having to use Stars! own new games wizard. This makes it possible to save the setup. The Grey Council |
| Stars! Notebook | The Stars! Notebook is a program that helps you gather, combine, analyze and store information from your Stars! games. The Stars! Player |
| Stars! Planet Sniffer | Helps find the inhabitable planets from other players' pXX reports. Much faster than manually searching through the information. Lunar State Industrial Institute |
| Stars! Secret Intelligence Reporter | Another information trading and organization utility. The Mystery Guild |
| Stars! - Universe Creator | A great new utility that allows hosts to not only model the galaxy off a bitmap, but also allows them to move homeworlds around. There are some restrictions as to where the new homeworlds are placed. You can download it directly or go to the site. It is in Russian, but the utility has an link in English. D-Stars! |
| Territories | A great mapping utility with a flexible information display interface. Orionian Empire |
| The Stars! Xpert | A second "calculator" making quick checks on cloaking, bombing damage, etc. very easy. The Stars! Xpert |
| Warp Central | An automatic turn mailer for both players and hosts. Includes several features such as player database and attached files. The Stars! Player |
| Xtreme Borders for Stars! | A mapping/information utility for Stars! It gives detailed information on the planets. Pirates Retreat |
| Xtreme StarMail | A turn mailing utility that utilizes MAPI or SMTP. It has a number of options including multiple email addresses and attachments. Pirates Retreat |
| Hoster | An automatic turn handler for Pegasus Mail. Red Kipper's Stars! |
| IFOS Converter | "It's Full of Stars" is a 3-D star mapper. The converter program will allow you make maps of Stars! Universes. Stars!-R-Us |
| Information Trader for Stars! | Allows players to transfer gaming information without compromising their own security. Stars! AutoHost |
| Mapper | Recreates the xy universe file from a GIF file. Also allows the xy file to be exported to a GIF. Stars!-R-Us |
| Packet Calculator | A packet calculator program. Stars! AutoHost |
| Star Year Data Utility | A DOS utility that gives the year of any turn file. Red Kipper's Stars! |
| StarComm | A turn exchange utility mainly designed for blitzing. Stars!-R-Us |
| StarPower | Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation. Stars!-R-Us |
| Stars! File Info Extractor | Displays critical file information. Uses Win95 interface. Red Kipper's Stars! |
| Stars Log | Keep track of all those little details. Stars!-R-Us |
| Stars! Message Reader Tool | Allows you to conveniently keep track and store in-game messages. The old home page seems to be gone. Stars!-R-Us |
| Stars Turn Generator | This utility allows you to generate more than one year at a time. As this feature has been incorporated in to Stars! the utility is really obsolete. Red Kipper's Stars! |
| Stars Turn Xchange | An old utility to allow hosting off of a web server. Really only for hosting blitzes. Advanced users only. Red Kipper's Stars! |
| StarsInfo | A information exchanging program. It looks fairly sophisticated; however, several people have reported problems using it so far. Stars!-R-Us |
| Starstat Turn Utility | A DOS utility to display critical information about any particular Stars! file. Stars!-R-Us |
| Stretch | Changes the size of the galaxy by modifying the xy file. Stars!-R-Us |
| Turn Coordinator | Automates turn handling with Pegasus Mail. Stars!-R-Us |
| Turn Sender | Another Pegasus Mail automated turn handler. Red Kipper's Stars! |
| Another Stars! Spreadsheet | Currently in a beta, this spreadsheet is unique in that it is for Microsoft Works instead of for Excel. Waypoint 13 used to host this, but is currently dead. If anyone has a copy of it, please contact me. |
| The Attractiveness Calculator | Excel file to calculate targeting order in combat. The Stars! Directory |
| BattleSim Testbed | A completed testbed with all the MT gizmos and virtually every race combination. Definitely a time saver if you use testbeds. Stars! FAQ |
| Chris Spagnoli's MPFC | Excel file to estimate the mass and speed of several packets needed to kill a planet. The Packet Flinger Calculator Homepage |
| Chris Spagnoli's PFC | Excel file to estimate mass and speed of a packet needed to kill a planet. The Packet Flinger Calculator Homepage |
| John Rasor's Bombing Spreadsheet | Excel file to calculate bombing damage. Stars!-R-Us |
| John Stranart's Habitability Calculator | Excel file to calculate habitability ratings of planets. Stars!-R-Us |
| Planet Projection Spreadsheet | An Excel spreadsheet that simulates the growth of a planet and allows the user to see the economic effects of removing colonists or building items (such as ships). The original site for this utility is dead. If you know of a place to get it, please contact me. |
| Spreadsheet for Jason's Race Potential Formula | Allows one to quickly evaluate a race design. Stars! Nations |
| StarTrip'in | Caluclates the required amount of fuel needed for any trip. Takes into account IS population growth. Stars!-R-Us |
| Stephen Posey's Excel Bomb - Kill Ratio Calculator | Calculate bombing damage. Stephen Posey's Stars! Page |
| Stephen Posey's Excel Calculator Spreadsheet | Similar to other calculator utilities; however, it uses an Excel format instead. Stephen Posey's Stars! Page |
| Stephen Posey's Excel Racial Info Calculator | Calculate racial abilities based on game information. Stephen Posey's Stars! Page |
| V2 Multiple Impact Calculator | Lets you calculate damage from multiple packets or from packets and bombers. V2 Multiple Impact Calculator |
| Waypoint Finder | An Excel file that allows you to estimate where the waypoints of your enemy will fall. The utility is from NovaBase; however at this time there is no link on the site. |
The descriptions above are a combination of what I have combed out of the Net and what programmers have sent me. Needless to say, I would prefer to have all the comments be by the programmers. Programmers please write me with any improved, yet short, descriptions. If anyone knows of homepages I don't have, please let me know. Many utilities without a homepage currently link to Stars!-R-Us; however, after this site went down, I have not found locations for some of those utilities. If you know where one of these can be downloaded, please contact me.
Please send me any comments or corrections.
