Everything: VGAP, RL, or otherwise

[Posting] VPA and PHOST/PLIST?
Thread opener
Posted Sat, 2018-10-13 07:54 GMT

Hello everyone! I am a new player here at Planetscentral. I used to play on rcworld and today on High Command. Since High Command is retiring, I'm looking for a new home. But I have a question: I've never played PHOST / PLIST games before. Is it possible to use VPA for this? Do I need additional files - or do I get them from the host at Turn 1? Best regards

Thomas

[Posting] Re: VPA and PHOST/PLIST?
Posted Sat, 2018-10-13 08:39 GMT, edited Sat, 2018-10-13 08:43 GMT

Hello everyone! I am a new player here at Planetscentral. I used to play on rcworld and today on High Command. Since High Command is retiring, I'm looking for a new home. But I have a question: I've never played PHOST / PLIST games before. Is it possible to use VPA for this? Do I need additional files - or do I get them from the host at Turn 1? Best regards

Thomas

Yes, it is perfectly fine to play with VPA. I use VPA. Some time ago I prepared ready-to-run VPA package (including dosbox): http://www.project-ai.org/upload/vpa.zip

You should get the latest version here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vpa/files/latest/download?source=files and update my package if you are going to use it.

Altough, VPA has numerous bugs, especially when run in dosbox, they are not critical.

All required files for a single game you can get on the game's page.

[Posting] Re: VPA and PHOST/PLIST?
Thread opener
Posted Sat, 2018-10-13 14:23 GMT, edited Sat, 2018-10-13 14:27 GMT

Thanks a lot, I will give it a try. Phoenix 7 here I come!

[Posting] Re: VPA and PHOST/PLIST?
vlk
Posted Sat, 2018-10-13 21:24 GMT

By the way, the configuration of the Titan series makes these PHOST games very similar to THOST games.

[Posting] Re: VPA and PHOST/PLIST?
Posted Sun, 2018-10-14 18:42 GMT, edited Sun, 2018-10-14 18:42 GMT

Thanks a lot, I will give it a try. Phoenix 7 here I come!

have fun. :smile:

And just in case here the stuff which is important for PHOST/Plist2.4 :
http://www.phost.de/docs.html

http://phost.de/~vagabond/PList2/plist2.html
(this is specifically for the phoenix series you are playing which is using Plist 2.4)

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