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- Network War Chess for Windows
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- (C) Yin XIE 1995
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- I made this game for fun. I made the game a freeware for fun. Let's have fun!
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- this is a network game which requires two people to be involved over a
- Microsoft Windows network environment. The only network requirement is that
- you must have a network drive share visible (read/write) by both players.
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- I make this public domain, because I don't have time to improve it,
- play with it and need make it more popular.
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- How to play
- ===========
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- 1) make a network drive
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- in a peer to peer network: (Win3.51/Win95/WinNT)
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- make a drive shared to another player. only one player need to share.
- in a clent/server network: (WinNT/UNIX)
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- choose a network disk visible to both players.
- 2) start the game
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- both players need to login, the reason for this is to identify
- the players. The program remembers your password once you confirm it.
- if you forget your password, you can delete the password section with your
- name in warchess.ini file.
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- 3) Open a connection
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- one player must "wait" for the other player to join the game.
- To wait on a connection, you need to choose a common folder,
- for example n:\game\folder1, n is the network drive.
- the other player can see you in this folder and join your game.
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- 4) set up you troop
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- you can browse a saved board file to set up your troop faster.
- I saved some commonly used troop setup in system.ela.
- Otherwise, just drag/drop, it is easy.
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- 5) Play
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- I need to wait your turn to play.
- drag/drop you piece to attack a enemy piece near-by.
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- 6) rules
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- the goal is to capture the opponent's flag.
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- The board is composed of two fields, south part is for you, north part
- is protected by your enemy. You need to apply a wise strategy to attack
- his part and capture his flag. If you are good, you can even kill all his
- troop.
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- The board is composed of a number of stations (square) connected by
- roads and railroads. A regular piece can move one square per turn.
- An engineer can go freely on the railroad if there is no piece on
- a station between his previous station and the destination.
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- You may some circles between stations, they are camps. A piece inside
- a camp can not be attacked.
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- A flag can not be placed in one of the two HQ buildings. It can not move.
- If your general gets killed, your flag will become visible to your enemy.
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- Here is the table with all the pieces you have
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- Piece number picture representation
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- General of the Army 1 =*=*=*=*= can kill anybody
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- Lieutenant-General 1 ==*=*=*== kill any body except above
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- Major-General 2 ==*===*== ...
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- Brigadier-General 2 ====*==== ...
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- Colonel 2 -*-*-*-*- ...
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- Major 2 --*-*-*-- ...
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- Captain 3 --*---*-- ...
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- Lieutenant 3 ----*---- ...
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- Engineer 3 (the gentilman ready for work) (*)
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- Bomb 2 killed togather with anybody
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- Mine 3 (can not move) killed togather with anybody
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- Flag 1 (a Flag) (can not move)
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- * Special cases:
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- - Engineer can destroy a mine.
- - Engineer can turn on the railroad during his turn.
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- By default, all the pieces are represented using Chinese characters.
- This is because I played this game since I was 4, all in Chinese.
- You can change the representation View/Unit Display menu.
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- Known problems:
- ===============
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- This is not a commercial product, even not a well finished program. I only had
- time to make it playable and no major bugs.
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- 1) I need to reopen a new session after each game to play a new game.
- 2) abort game does not work.
- 3) no help file, it is so easy to play, isn't it?
- 4) You can't save a game. It does not matter, a regular game last only 20m.
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- Compatibility:
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- This game works great on Windows 3.1 and up, Windows NT 3.51 and up.
- I thought about people with only a Monochrone display, the game is also
- playbale if you do not have a color monitor.
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- Credit:
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- My father was the beta tester of this game
- He played with me over a network during several hours.
- He lost all the games. Thanks Dady!
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- You want to contribute:
- =======================
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- 1) help file
- 2) FAQ
- 3) AI modules
- 4) Graphics
- 5) Network modules (Winsock, ...)
- 6) ...
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- email me to yinxie@msn.com. I will be gald to hear from you.
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- PS. I only have the debug version of game compiled. The drawback is the file
- size and speed. However, this game is so well designed, it works even speedy
- in a I386/16SX/4MRAM Machine.
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- At this time, I can no longer compile it, because I don't have the original
- VC 1.0 compiler installed in my machine any more.
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- If you play often:
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- It is a pleasure for me, please email to yinxie@msn.com to let me know.
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- Virus protection
- ================
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- Here are file signitures, if any different, you are in trouble.
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- 05/01/95 10:35p 14,156 WCCRYPT.DLL (password encryption)
- 05/18/95 12:04a 3,680 WSLEEP.DLL (sleep utility)
- 06/01/95 11:50p 120,832 WC_RES01.DLL (resource file)
- 06/08/95 10:57p 16,224 WCGENCOM.DLL (network drive comm util)
- 10/04/95 11:31p 2,031,872 WARCHESS.EXE (the main program - big! debug version)
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- Thanks.
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