NetMECCG
by Mike Collins
A program for playing the
Middle-earth: Customizable Card Game
by Iron Crown Enterprises
over the Internet
NetMECCG is a Windows program that allows two players to play the
Middle Earth:Collectable Card Game across the Internet. NetMECCG
knows nothing about the rules of MECCG, it simply acts as a "virtual table";
it allows you to play, tap, move, etc. cards in whatever way that you want.
It allows you to save/load games, to log the game to a file for later
review, to make custom decks, etc.---(hopefully) everything that you will
need to play MECCG. Best of all, it's FREE!
News
- 07/12/05 : The NetMeCCG home page is back on-line, now hosted at
meccg.net. A number of old links have
been cleaned up on this occassion and third party e-mail addresses have
been removed to avoid them getting spammed. Note that my ohio-state.edu e-mail
and 3843 Cassidy Drive snail-mail addresses - as found on these pages and in the
distribution files - are hopelessly outdated.
- 09/25/99 : Released NetMECCG v1.4.1. This has been done for
awhile, but I finally got around to posting it. It has some bug
fixes and some new features---most notably, that the executable is not
corrupt (I found out that I had bad RAM in my computer when I compiled
v1.4). See the revision
history for a complete list of changes.
- Old news
Program Info
Here are some files which will give you a feel for what NetMECCG is:
- A readme that talks
very briefly about what NetMECCG is, and how to install it
(7KB)
- An FAQ that
answers the most common questions that I've been asked concerning
NetMECCG --- last updated 10/20/97 (19KB)
- The NetMECCG manual, which is
actually just a text version of the help file (42KB)
- A screen shot of
the main NetMECCG playing window (144KB)
- A screen shot of
the NetMECCG company movement window (102KB)
NetMECCG Files
These are the files that you need to install NetMECCG:
- NetMECCG, Win95/98 version 1.4.1 install disk 1 of 4 (1409KB)
- NetMECCG, Win95/98 version 1.4.1 install disk 2 of 4 (1361KB)
- NetMECCG, Win95/98 version 1.4.1 install disk 3 of 4 (1365KB)
- NetMECCG, Win95/98 version 1.4.1 install disk 4 of 4 (602KB)
Files which aren't needed to play NetMECCG, but that you might like to
have anyways...
- My site info text files, for both hero sites and
minion sites. These
files conveniently provide the crucial information about all the
sites, sorted in every way imaginable (33KB)
- Some example card
sounds to liven up your game. (unzip in the CardSnd
subdirectory --- make sure you use an unzip program which is
long-filename aware). (93KB) You'll find many more sounds at
Chad Martin's web
page.
- I've heard of two other tools: Middle-Earth Mover by Andy Fredricksen, which helps you
to move around Middle-earth, and NetMECCG Database Editor (NMDBE) by
Paul Choquette,
which gives the curious a peek into NetMeCCGs database. Especially the latter might still
be on the net somewhere.
Links
Links and lots more MeCCG:
The Middle Earth:Collectable Card Game is by Iron Crown Enterprises,
Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, which reserves all rights in its
intellectual properties. NetMECCG is a non-profit program for
non-commercial use only, and should not be redistributed for profit. Any
questions pertaining to the use of the copyrighted material should be
directed in writing to ICE, P.O. Box 1605, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA,
22902-1605. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The
Return of the King, and all character and places therein, are trademark
properties of Tolkien Enterprises. All characters and places derived from
the works of J.R.R. Tolkien are common law trademarks used under license
from Grafton Books (Harper Collins), publishing successors to Unwin Hyman,
Ltd. and George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, UK.
NetMECCG Homepage / Mike Collins /
mcollins@s.. / Last Updated: July 12, 2005
