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STAR EMPIRE EVENT MANUAL
Star Empire v. 2.10
Copyright (C) 1992 Antoine Le Huenen
As of Star Empire v. 2.00, Star Empire no longer requires registration. You
are free to use Star Empire for as long as you wish, and you are not required
to pay any fee to the author for the use of this software. Please do not
modify Star Empire in any ways, including thhe original archive.
Special thanks to Mark Brister for beta testing Star Empire and for the use
of some of his ideas.
Star Empire requires and event, to run its maintenance and update
features. Without it, the game will not advance properly, planets will
not produce, etc.
This documentation works for TELEGARD BBS only. If you are unsure of how
to make an event in your BBS system, refer to your BBS's documentation for
further information.
If your BBS does not have event capabilities, you must run EVENT.EXE once
per day in your Star Empire directory in order for the game to keep
balanced.
For Telegard Users, go into the event editor, create a new event, and make
it look like this:
Event #2 of 3
!. Active : Yes
1. Description: Star Empire Maintenance
2. Sched. type: DOS shell
3. Event data : STARVENT.BAT
4. Busy time : 1 minutes
5. Exec. time : 3:30
6. Busy during: Yes
7. Duration : 1
8. Days active: SMTWTFS
and add the following batch file to your main BBS directory. Call it
STARVENT.BAT:
echo off
cd \bbs\star
EVENT.EXE
cd \bbs
If you are using TELEGARD without a front door, you will find that the event
might execute two or three times. As this is not wanted, you might want to
add the SLEEP program included in this package to your batch file. That will
add a one minute delay after EVENT.EXE runs, so the minimum time telegard
allocates will pass. Change your batch file like this:
echo off
cd \bbs\star
EVENT.EXE
SLEEP.EXE
cd \bbs
The EVENT would run a lot faster if you had a ram drive, and would reduce
the access on the hard disk. To do that, simply change your batch file
to the following:
echo off
d:
copy c:\bbs\star\event.exe
copy c:\bbs\star\*.dat
EVENT
c:
cd \bbs\star
copy d:event.exe
copy d:*.dat
Notice that D: is the ram drive, replace D: by the letter of your ram
drive.
And that's about it! Your Star Empire DOOR should now be ready to use!