U.M.S. II Planet Editor and extra scenarios

[fractalsister]

I'm looking for the Planet editor pack, which is supposed to have come with two additional scenarios: Southeast Asia and Pacific War.



Also, in the "Complete UMS" complilation from 1993, there are new Desert Storm and Civil War scenarios for UMS II. This compilation was reviewed in Amiga Format, but I'm unsure whether it was released for the Amiga, or a PC-only title. Does anyone own a copy of this?



The info on UMS II in HOL is wrong: Scenario disks 1-2 mentioned are probably just two of the scenario disks that were included with the main program, as one of these is a Napoleon scenario. If the scenarios included with the Planet editor are of the same size, these could be expected to fill a disk each, which would mean that the editor pack would comprise three disks and not one. Also, the compilation is not mentioned at all, even though it was reviewed planned for the Amiga, and possibly also released.


To sum up, there should be up to nine UMS II disks in total:


Main game: the game disk + three scenario disks (Alexander/Napoleon/Overlord)
Planet editor: editor disk + two scenario disks (Pacific War/Southeast Asia)
Two new scenarios in compilation (Civil War/Desert Storm)

[Hanzu]

THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR was not PC-only title. Someone in ebay owns copy of Amiga version.


I do not believe in theory that UMS II Planet Editor (the first disk) includes ALEXANDER or NAPOLEON or OVERLORD.


I counted 12 different UMS II disks. 4+2+6, not 9.


UMS II NATIONS AT WAR (MICROPLAY) (Amiga) came with 4 disks:
BOOT DISK UDISK
ALEXANDER UDATA
NAPOLEON UDATA
OVERLORD UDATA
Some boxes have white sticker "Napoleon scenario replaces fantasy scenario"

UMS II NATIONS AT WAR (Rainbird) (Amiga) came with 4 disks:
GAMES DISK UK DIS-18/2/91
ALEXANDER UK DIS-18/2/91
NAPOLEON UK DIS-18/2/91
OVERLORD UK DIS-18/2/91

UMS II Planet Editor (MICROPLAY) (IBM) came with 2 disks:
Planet Editor Program Disk 50591 A
Planer Editor Scenario Disk 50591 B (including Pacific War + Southeast Asia)

UMS II NATIONS AT WAR (Rainbird) (ATARI ST) came with at least 2 disks:
GAMES DISC U.K.
SCENARIO DISC U.K.

THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR (intergalactic) (Amiga) came with:
UMS: THE UNIVERSAL MILITARY SIMULATOR
UMSII: NATIONS AT WAR
UMSII: PLANET EDITOR
DESERT STORM SCENARIOS
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SCENARIOS
It had IBM PC manual with no mention about Amiga and it came with total of 6 DD disks labeled as follows and with no Amiga name anywhere:
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR UMS2: Disk 1 UMS PLUS INSTALL UMS UTIL PREFERENCES UMS II CIVIL WAR 1861
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR UMS2: Disk 2 UMS SCENARIOS
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR UDisk: Disk 3 UMS II: NATIONS AT WAR
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR UDATA: Disk 4 UMS II: THE PLANET EDITOR UMS II CIVIL WAR 1863 & 1864
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR UDATA: Disk 5 UMS II SCENARIOS: OVERLORD NAPOLEON CIVIL WAR 1862
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR UDATA: Disk 6 UMS II SCENARIOS: ALEXANDER DESERT STORM (2)

THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR (intergalactic) (IBM PC) came with:
UMS: THE UNIVERSAL MILITARY SIMULATOR
UMSII: NATIONS AT WAR
UMSII: PLANET EDITOR
DESERT STORM SCENARIOS
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SCENARIOS
It had IBM PC manual and with total of 6 DD disks labeled as follows and with no IBM or PC name anywhere:
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR DISK A INSTALL PROGRAM UMS II: NATIONS AT WAR
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR DISK B UMS SCENARIOS: OVERLORD NAPOLEON ALEXANDER
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR DISK C UMS II: PLANET EDITOR
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR DISK D UMS II SCENARIOS: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR DISK E UMS SCENARIOS: DESERT STORM (2) FREEDONIA
THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR DISK F UMS I GAME UMS I SCENARIOS: PUBLIC DOMAIN

So to conclude if you see loose THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR disks. If they are with numbers 1, 2, 3 and so on they are for Amiga. If they are with letters A, B, C and so on they are for IBM PC. Not sure how Macintosh disks look like and if they are 3.5" or 5.25". Atari does not have THE COMPLETE UNIVERSAL SIMULATOR.

Sorry if there are errors in my research.