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- BobUtils Documentation
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- After massive frustration playing THEIR FINEST HOUR: The
- Battle of Britain, I began developing these utilities to
- help my pilots stay alive and get ahead. Hope they will
- serve you as well. I've also include a few experienced
- pilots to fly your wing on tough missions, and a couple of
- missions I designed as examples. The following explanations
- should cover the use of all the included files.
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- COPYROST.BAT - Automatically copies entire roster of pilots
- and Top Scores to alternate drive and directory for backup.
- You may have to edit this to suit your system & purposes.
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- COPYBRIT.BAT - Copies multiple British Airmen to save drive
- and directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system
- & purposes. USE: COPYBRIT Name1 Name2 Name3 . . . etc. NOTE:
- Do not use file extensions here, use pilot name only.
- EXAMPLE: COPYBRIT TESSLER TOWNSEND FISKE
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- COPYGERM.BAT - Copies multiple German Airmen to save drive
- and directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system
- & purposes. USE: COPYGERM Ext Name1 Name2 Name3 . . . etc.
- NOTE: Here you must use the file extension as the first
- parameter.
- EXAMPLE: COPYGERM 109 KOENIG GALLAND SCHMIDT
- COPYGERM 110 BRAEDEN MULLER
- COPYGERM J87 REINHART RUMEY WOLFF
- COPYGERM BMB OUTZMANN RAEDER
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- RESTROST.BAT - Automatically restores entire roster of
- pilots and Top Scores from backup drive and directory.
- You may have to edit this to suit your system & purposes.
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- RESTTOP.BAT - Restores Top Score file from backup drive and
- directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system &
- purposes. Uses Top Score file name as parameter.
- EXAMPLE: RESTTOP PRAF
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- RESTINDV.BAT - Restores single pilot from backup drive and
- directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system &
- purposes. Uses pilot name and type as parameters.
- EXAMPLE: RESTINDV TESSLER RAF
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- RESTORE.BAT - This is the reason all of this got done. All
- of the rest of the .BAT, .SCR, .DAT, and .TXT files, and the
- .COM file work with this to help you resurrect your pilots
- that have been KIA, Grounded, or Captured. It also will
- allow you to alter their status if you want to intentionally
- ground a pilot so you won't use him accidentally. If you
- want, you can also mark him off as captured although I can't
- figure why anyone would want to do this purposefully. By
- poking around in the pilot data files I discovered that the
- second byte of the file holds the status of a pilot, i.e.,
- 00 if the pilot is ACTIVE, 01 if GROUNDED, 02 if CAPTURED,
- and 03 if KIA. RESTORE.BAT builds a DEBUG script file that
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- changes that byte on the fly. The only minor drawback is
- that the Top Score file for that pilot & type will end up
- temporarily out of sync score-wise. Once your pilot has been
- flown and has scored some points the game program will self
- correct this difference. If you have NORTON UTILITIES and
- know how to use the DISK EDITOR(DE) it is easy to correct
- this on your own. To use RESTORE.BAT you need to supply the
- entire filename of the pilot to be modified and a two byte
- code signifying the status you want to appear in the file.
- EXAMPLE: RESTORE TESSLER.RAF 00 - to restore to ACTIVE
- " " " 01 - to force GROUNDED
- " " " 02 - to force CAPTURED
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- That's all there is to it. It does the rest by itself. Since
- I currently find myself in the odious position of being
- forced to learn *UGH* Assembler I am going to try to write a
- full scale editor for the BOB and SWOTL pilot files. At
- least learning *UGH* Assembler may then have been
- worthwhile. If I am succesful I will post same on the BBS's
- I use and hope they will filter out. If these utilities are
- useful to you a small donation of $5.00 to continue to stir
- my creativity would be greatly appreciated. If anyone knows
- of an editor for BOB or SWOTL I would love to know where to
- find it. I have heard they are out there amongst the
- freeware and shareware, but have not yet found them.
- Donations and/or questions and/or contact to:
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- Marc Tessler
- 408 W. Pontiac Dr. #7
- Phoenix, AZ 85027
- 602-870-1951
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- P.S.- I have also included an experienced pilot of each type
- to use as wingman in tough missions. Also, I've thrown in a
- few simple missions I designed as examples. The cakewalk
- mission ONEONONE.FLT can be used to get a pilot going, or to
- let the kids play if you let them near your computer. If one
- of the experienced pilots gets bounced and ends up KIA you
- can just restore them from the backup copies I've provided.
- EXAMPLE: COPY NAME.BAK NAME.??? (Where ??? is .RAF, .109,
- .J87, .BMB)
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- To install these files to your BOB directory just "copy *.*"
- to \BOB1940. Good Luck and happy flying, Ace!
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- P.S.S.- Anyone out there want to play KNIGHTS OF THE SKY by
- modem? If so, you can contact me at the above phone number.
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- All Files & Documentation copyright (c)1992 Marc A. Tessler
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