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- This is README.TXT for Monster, a multiplayer adventure game for VMS.
- Monster was written by Rich Skrenta at Northwestern University.
-
- You may freely copy, distribute and change Monster as you wish. Let me
- know if you get it up and running, and if you change it, just because I'm
- interested. Send mail to
-
- skrenta@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu or
- skrenta@nuacc.bitnet
-
- Monster was written in VMS Pascal under VMS 4.6. It uses file sharing and
- record locking for communication. Outside of that, it doesn't do anything
- tricky. However, after playing around with a VMS 4.2 system, I have
- doubts if it will work on a system that old. If you've got a reasonably
- recent version of VMS and a Pascal compiler, you shouldn't have any problems.
-
- The Monster source is in two files: a short one, approx 300 lines, called
- guts.pas, and a big one, mon.pas, approx 10,000 lines. The compiled program
- contains everything necessary to create and maintain the Monster universe.
- There is no separate maintenance program. Instead, a specific person in
- the game has privileges, and is known as the "Monster Manager". The MM
- can do system maintenance while playing, and other players can even observe
- his work.
-
- Credit for the work to convert GUTS.PAS to a more portable form goes to
-
- Michael "the spide" Young MCY1580@RITVAX.BITNET
- Chris "siouxane" Meck CLM4346@RITVAX.BITNET
-
- Many thanks to them for solving this sticky problem!
-
- Rich Skrenta
- November, 1988.
-