[Posting] PHost 4.1h Install Assistance
From:Xhumeka
Thread:PHost 4.1h Install Assistance
Forum:Talk
Date:Wed, 2022-01-26 17:54 GMT
Edited:Wed, 2022-01-26 18:07 GMT

Thanks so much for keeping VGA Planets alive! I would love to try hosting a game using PHost (Win32) but I'm running into a few difficulties and am hoping for some assistance.

So far I have
-used a fresh install of VGA Planets for DOS, newest version I could find was 3.2
-created empty folder (PHTest) off root of install folder and used master.exe to create new game
-extracted contents of phost-4.1h-win32 into install folder
-using tim-host.src and standard.txt files, copied them into gamefolder as pconfig.src and shiplist.txt

At this point I believe I should be able to run phost just like I would host, but when I try this is the error I receive:

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D:\320FULL>phost.exe PHTEST
Portable Host version 4.1h for PC Win32/Windows NT

Copyright (c) 1995-2014 Portable Host Project

Invoked with the following parameters:

D:\320FULL\phost.exe
PHTEST

ERROR: unable to open 'storm.nm' for reading
ERROR: Unable to read Planets global data files
ERROR: You must specify a directory which contains a VGA Planets universe.

For more information on setting up a game and hosting, consult the documentation that came with the PHost distribution.

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It's clearly looking for a "storm.nm" file, but searching both my fresh 3.2 install as well as an older 3.14 game I'm running, that file doesn't seem to exist anywhere.

Here are the contents of the folder i'm trying to run phost from:

Any help greatly appreciated! Once again thanks for keeping the community alive and supporting it!!

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