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Franchise Football v1.xx
By: Scott K. Snella
Quick Setup and Installation
This document provides sysops with single node, BBS systems quick setup
instructions. If you have difficulties getting the game to run, have
a multi-line system, or which to run a LAN game please refer to the SYSOP.DOC
file for information on using the configuration file option.
NOTE: There are two command line parameters for Franchise Football, an
upper or lower case L, or the name of a configuration file. If you'd
like to try the game quick, follow steps 1-5 below, and then type
FOOTBALL L from the Franchise Football Directory. See SYSOP.DOC
for more details about the configuration file. The configuration
file must be used in certain circumstances, including the multi-node
setup.
INSTALLATION STEPS
1. Unzip Franchise Football Archive to its own directory.
(FFBL uses many data files to allow for configuration, it is
highly recommended that you place the game in it's own directory)
2. Change to the directory containing Franchise Football (FFBL) and type
FINIT. This will run the initialization program. Answer YES to
the question, "Do you wish to create a league". For first time
installs, you will be prompted for some information, including
the registration number, follow the instructions and answer the
questions.
You will be prompted for several options, including the number of
conferences, divisions, and teams. Each conference has as many
divisions as you enter, and each division has as many teams as
you specify, So the number of teams in the entire game will be...
Conferences * Divisions * Teams. The password toggle option
should be enabled on LAN's but not on BBS's, and the perpetual
season option will only take effect in registered versions. When
you are finished type "Q" to Quit.
3. Now you have to create a batch file to run the game from the BBS.
FFBL supports many major BBS drop files, and all you have to do is
copy your dropfile to the FFBL directory before running the program.
This will work fine for single node systems, however, multi-node
systems will use the configuration file option discussed in the
SYSOP.DOC manual. The main EXE file is called FOOTBALL.EXE
(with a command line parameter ("L" or "l") ). Here is a sample
batch file.
@ECHO OFF
COPY C:\BBS\DORINFO1.DEF C:\FFBL\DORINFO1.DEF
C:
CD\FFBL
FOOTBALL
DEL DORINFO1.DEF
CD\BBS
EXIT
5. Finally, you must run the program called MAINT.EXE once per day.
Running MAINT.EXE will create the schedule, or play games if the
league is full, otherwise it will wait until all teams have been
filled. Just put the MAINT.EXE program in your nightly events,
this plays games and creates many of the data files FFBL needs.
Until the season actually begins play, several of the options
(especially in the Gazette Sports Page) will not seem to work.
NOTES:
- FBB creates two score files, FFBLSCRE.ANS and FFBLSCRE.ASC. Both
contain last evenings game scores. The first is in ANSI format
and the second, ASCII format. Both are located in the FFBL
directory and can be copied, moved or displayed from that location
to users during login. If not all of the teams are filled, the
score file acts as an ad for users to join.
- You may want to make the file INSTR.DOC available for download. It
is a brief text file explaining the game, and detailing some
strategies for playing.
That's it! Just create a dropfile, and run this batch file, and
FFBL should run fine.
Thanks for playing Franchise Football...
Franchise Football (C) 1996 SnellaSoft