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PHOST 3 North American mirror site

The Portable Host Project Brought to you by the letter P

Updated: May 21, 2001

• PHOST 3.2.3.3 experimental beta version 6 now available!

Updated: January 8, 2001

• New mail address for The Portable Host Project. Thomas Voigt is active again!
• Updated version of Piotr's INFO-PDK docs
New versions of PQBoost and POneAlly by Heiko Schlenker

Updated: September 20, 2000

• INFO version of the PDK docs by Piotr Winiarczyk is a PDK help which can be integrated in IDEs such as Rhide which use the Info help system.

Updated: August 2, 2000

• PScripts available again (old version from 1996)

Updated: June 20, 2000

• PQBoost v1.12 available. See below for more info.
• ExplMap version 2.2 available. See below for more info

Updated: May 24, 2000

• PDK 3.2.3.3 SuSe Linux 6.2 available.
• PUtils version 3.2 for SuSe Linux 6.2 available.

Updated: February 6, 2000

• PHOST 3.2.3.2e SuSe Linux available.
• PDK version 3.2 for Borland C++Builder 4 available.

• European PHOST 3 mirror site installed (maintained by S.Glasauer).

• PHOST 3.2.3.2e Linux RedHat 6.1 binary available.

• PHOST 3.2.3.2e is now available, fixing two bugs related to using TKF and to cloaking a ship under remote control.

• Added Hosting Sites section for listing hosts who use PHOST 3.

• New program for fixing VCR files generated by PHOST 3 for viewing with VPA 3.51

• Added link to PLIST 2 alternative ship list

• PHOST binary available for i586/Linux. Download this if you are having trouble linking and running the usual distribution.

PHOST 3 is the newest major release of PHOST, the alternative hosting program for VGA Planets. More information on PHOST, links to the older PHOST 2.x distributions, links to other sites, and useful third-party programs are available on the original PHOST page (off-line).
 

Download

Note that to save disk space and download time, the documentation files are now available separately from the remainder of the distributions.

The PHOST 3 Program

• PHOST 3.2e for Win32 (Windows95/Windows NT) [600K]
• PHOST 3.2e for DOS/386 and Windows 3.1 [584K]. Make sure you have the supplementary files available below.
• PHOST 3.2 for i386 FreeBSD 2.2.5 [618K]
• PHOST 3.2e for HP-PA HP/UX 10.20 [714K]
• PHOST 3.2e for Linux 2.0/586 [602K]
• PHOST 3.2e binary for Linux 2.1/586 [150K]

NOTE: This only has the PHOST program for people who have trouble getting the above distribution to link and run. You still need to download the Linux distribution above to get the language files, etc.
• PHOST 3.2e binary for Linux RedHat 6.1 [160K].
• PHOST 3.2e for SuSe Linux [569K]
• PHOST 3.2 for i386 Solaris [600K]
• PHOST 3.2e for SPARC Solaris 5.5.1 [678K]
• PHOST 3.2e for SPARC SunOS 4.1.4 [692K]

Support Files

• The complete set of documentation files.
• The distribution subset of files for players only.
• The 32-bit support files for hosts running DOS/386 only or Windows 3.1. You don't need this if you're running Windows 95 or Windows NT.

Documentation

Hosting Sites

• Turtle-Box is a German-only site (for the moment, English translation due by end of October) for automated hosting on Linux using PHOST 3.
• Planetsserver is a free automated hosting server supporting PHOST 3.
• Robo supports automated hosting of PHOST 3 games.

Addons

• Corr [6K] is a program contributed by Andrey <ach@chat.ru> for fixing VCR files generated by PHOST so that they can be viewed with VPA 3.51.


• PLIST 2 [27K] is an updated version of the PLIST alternative ship list with some changes for PHOST 3. The new authors describe some of the changes and rationale at the PLIST 2 web site.


• QBoost [15K] is a freeware host-side add-on for PHOST 3 that attempts to increase the fairness of the build queue. QBoost changes the PALPlayerRate config option each turn based upon the strength of a player's fleet, giving weaker players a slight advantage in build queue priorities. Written by Stefan Glasauer.
• PQBoost [187K] is a portable version of QBoost. Written by Heiko Schlenker.
• POneAlly [144K] limits the number of allies per player. Written by Heiko Schlenker.

 

 

Thomas Voigt's Explore Map 2.1 [91K] program has the same functionality as the existing Explore Map v1.0b program but it has been updated to work with version 3 of the PDK.

Explore Map 2.2[165K] updated by Heiko Schlenker supports the built-in wraparound map support of PHOST 3.

Note that Explore Map 2.1/2.2 will ONLY work with PHOST 3 (not with PHOST v2.x, and not with HOST).

Note that the above archive contains the source code and an executable for the PC Win32 platform. If you are not hosting on a PC Win32 platform, get the archive, get the PDK for your platform, compile the source code, and link with the PDK.

If you are hosting on a DOS/386 or Windows 3.1 platform and have been waiting for the PDK, take note that it is now available below.

The Portable Utilities (PUTILS)

• PUTILS version 3.2 for Windows95/Windows NT [300K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for DOS/386 and Windows 3.1 [238K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for i386 FreeBSD 2.2.5 [98K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for HP/PA HP-UX 10.20 [118K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for PC Linux 2.0 [107K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for SuSE Linux 6.2 [109K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for SPARC Solaris [126K]
• PUTILS version 3.2 for SPARC SunOS [130K]

The Portable Host Development Kit (PDK)

NOTE: Because PHOST 3 now has a common file format across all platforms, you can use the DJGPP PDK to write programs that will work with any PC-based PHOST (i.e., for Win32, for DOS). There is no "DJGPP PHOST" just as there are no "DJGPP PUTILS" simply because there is no point.

NOTE: The version 3 PDK will ONLY WORK WITH PHOST 3! It will not work with PHOST v2.x and it will not work with HOST. This backwards compatibility is a feature for the future.

• The PDK version 3.2 for Win32 (Windows95/Windows NT) with Borland v5 compiler [118K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for Win32 (Windows95/WindowsNT) with Microsoft C++ 5.0 compiler [153K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for Win32 (Windows95/WindowsNT) with Borland C++Builder 4 [100K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for DOS/386 and Windows 3.1 with Borland v5 compiler [117K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for DJGPP 2.0 [152K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for i386 FreeBSD 2.2.5 [116K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for HP/PA HP-UX 10.20 [134K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for PC Linux 2.0 [125K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for SuSe Linux 6.2 [126K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for SPARC Solaris [140K]
• The PDK version 3.2 for SPARC SunOS [143K]

Questions and Answers

VPA

PHOST 3 still works with VPA 3.51e although there is an incompatibility with the PVCR interface. VPA won't recognize PHOST 3 battles properly. VPA will support PHOST 3 in a future release, so hang on and don't bug Alex. In the meantime, view your battles externally using the PVCR command-line interface, or use the Corr program (available in the Addons section above) for fixing up the VCR files prior to viewing.

BSIM

PHOST 3 has three new combat configuration options. The latest release of BSIM (version 2.2) does not support these combat options. If you are in a game in which these three new combat options have non-default values, BSIM will give you incorrect results. Use your imagination, or hope for the best (or write a new simulator!)

PWRAP

Note that PWRAP functionality is now internal to PHOST 3 so you no longer need to use the external PWRAP program.

The Killing Floor

Yes, it does work with PHOST 3. It hasn't been tested extensively, however.

Support

phost@gmx.net

PHOST logo design and copyright held by John W. Smith.

QBullets are courtesy of Michael Herrick/Matterform Media. Background texture provided by Texture Land. Thanks to Ender's Design with graphics from Realm Graphics.

This document is maintained by The Portable Host Project.