Project News and Man Pages

Introduction

Phost/contrib is a directory of Open Source contributions for the Portable Host Project (AKA PHost). Phost is an improvement over the PBEM game VGA Planets' original host. PHost is portable, rock solid and flexible. The goal of Phost/contrib project is to support PHost team initiative with quality addons and tools.

We invite developers, spec/doc writers, beta testers and just people with twisted minds to join our project. Step in and make a difference!

You may find out more about the original game, PHost and PHost/contrib joining the PHost developers' mailing list.

Project News

October 31, 2004

• Updated Randgen to version 1.4.11, fixing a small bug.

May 1, 2004

• Added Randgen source code from Thomas Voigt, with changes from Dacian Hantig. Download it from the SourceForge file download area or from the CVS (module randgen of course).

Sep 16, 2003

• Released PDK Version 4.4b, which finally really supports PHost 4.x. All known bugs from 4.4 have been fixed. It should now be as stable as the previous versions. Download it from the SourceForge file download area.

Mar 12, 2003

• Released PDK Version 4.4, which supports PHost 4.x.

Sep 09, 2002

• Added peng (portable shiplist compiler) to CVS repository.

Oct 10, 2001

• Addon mfq (minefield quotas for PHost 3.3) added to the CVS repository.

Apr 4, 2001

• Explore Map added to the CVS repository.

Mar 29, 2001

• Automatic link verification was suspended due to Sourceforge policy. It will run again as soon as we found some more tolerating external host.

Feb 24, 2001

• Here is the list of tools and addons that you may find in our CVS: checkvic (referee based on the number of planets each player holds), explore map (create individual xyplan.dat (starmap) files for each specified player), logvpi (tool for logging VGA Planets Index), pfcx (randomizer of friendly codes), poneally (restriction on the number of allies), pqboost (you know this one) and PDK (which you know for sure).
• Some new pictures with descriptions. All external links are checked twice a day now to sort out broken  and unstable  ones.

Feb 16, 2001

• Homepage: link templates and automatic verification added. Check our pages of sorted and unsorted links.

Feb 10, 2001

• Homepage: new colorful look, lynx compatibility, some new links.
• North American mirror of Phost page is up and running. Updates are daily at 3:33 CST.

Feb 7, 2001

• Phost/contrib homepage is now available via CVS. Make sure that you read style guide before submitting your changes!
• Many new pictures are available both in big and small sizes. Use them at will.