--- date: "2001-04-25T04:30:00Z" title: Planetarion Fun! --- I quietly released a new version of <a href="/projects/plib/">PLib</a> a few days ago. PLib 0.3.0 has a whole bunch of new goodies; here's a quick list: From <a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">Tom Gilbert</a>, resource loader cleanups, and a new modular resource saver. From <a href="http://www.richlowe.net/">Richard Lowe</a>, a <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a> wrapper, and new warning and debugging calls. From me: PList and PHash cleanups, added the PVector type (think Vector in Java), PList and PHash API cleanups and bugfixes, TCP/IP and UNIX domain socket utility functions, TCP/IP and UNIX domain socket client and server (with simple <a href="http://www.openssl.org/">SSL</a> support), a short example program (a chat client and server with option file handling, and SSL support), C++ friendlyness, and autoconf/automake magic. Note that PCRE, OpenSSL, and even libdl are optional. If you don't have OpenSSL installed, for example, the PLib will still compile and work just fine; albiet without SSL capabilities. Thanks to Tom and Richard for all the help on PLib. <br /><br /> The next round of <a href="http://www.planetarion.com/">Planetarion</a> has started. Since the old BattleCalc a) doesn't work this round and b) was Windows-only (of course, it ran great in <a href="http://www.winehq.com/">Wine</a> ;) ), I decided to whip up my own battle calculator. It's still pretty rough, and there isn't a GUI just yet -- although it does create CSV output so you can view the battle in Excel, Gnumeric, or your spreadsheet program of choice). Anyway, you can download my battle calculator <a href="/projects/pacalc/">here</a>. <br /><br /> Oh yeah, I also updated my <a href="/planet/">Planetarion resource page</a>. Having trouble starting your planet? Be sure to check out the <a href="http://www.sinterklaas123.f2s.com/planetarion/3dayplan.htm">3-Day Plan</a>, a rough guide on your planet's first 72 hours.