[Posting] Re: T-host games?
From:streu
Thread:T-host games?
Forum:Talk
In reply to:T-host games?
Date:Mon, 2018-07-16 19:30 GMT

Hi. Any chance of T-host games being played here, please?

I am working on that, although with low priority. Current status of THost on PlanetsCentral:

(+) I have the possibility to run THost in DOS emulation on the server.

(-) Things that are still missing:

  1. a turn checker. You want to know whether your turn will be accepted. I am undecided between using PHost as turn-checker for THost, or c2check (a C++ port of check), or nothing. In general, for THost, even detecting that host failed (crashed) is hard.
  2. configuration. Need some way to configure the thing, i.e. convert pconfig.src fragments like this one into an appropriate hconfig
  3. add-ons. I am not sure whether you'll be able to use PTScore with THost.

In the end, nothing impossible, but it takes its time...

--Stefan

This is a testing version.
It may be incomplete, and have more bugs (or features) than the public live version at planetscentral.com.