AMIUBCSMAS 0.2c

or

Alberto's Most Incomplete, Undocumented and Badly Coded
Stars! Mapper, Analyzer and Simulator

(called "StarAna", as in STARs! ANAlyzer, by friends)

Welcome to the web page dedicated to my program, you can browse here the documentation of the program as well as see some example outputs from it. If you want to download it keep in mind that the program is not meant for "total newbies", but anyone able to play as complex as Stars! should be able to use without difficulty the current version.

The program now features several nice features, like ability to slurp directly the report generated by Stars patch 'i' (you need to use a perl script for older patches). It also has a nice window-based interface with big friendly buttons. The windows 95 version was built using Cygnus' GNUwin32 environment: this requires you to install a X server on your your system. I use the demo version of Xwin-32, which is sufficient to use the program. Other information and links can be found at http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html

You can have a look at a [screenshot] (made under linux, on windows 95 it's slightly different), and also a description of the various windows used by the program.

• advert.txt, which you probably already saw on the newsgroup rec.computer.games.stars.
• install.txt, the installation guide, a good link to follow before downloading huge files, since it specifies the requirements to run the program.
• starana.txt, the "user guide", which provides the information on what the program does.

• Download sa-doc-0.2e.zip, documentation and examples for the program (82184 bytes).
• Download sa-bin-0.2e.zip, windows 95 executable (452332 bytes).
• Download sa-windll-0.2e.zip, required DLL files (note: if you have Cygnus' GNUwin32 environment installed then you already have those) (438029 bytes).
• Download sa-src-0.2e.tar.gz, source files, almost C++ (93362 bytes).

You can also see the example master file which is included with the documentation, the only stuff you need to type in to be able to use the program. You can also have a look at the report-log file which contains the analysis/simulation data for the example given in sa.smf.