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Franchise Football v1.xx
by Scott Snella
Internet: aq239@detroit.freenet.org
or: bg229@scn.org
April 1996
*** Wide Beta Release 1 ***
SYSOP DOCUMENTATION
Table of Contents:
[1] Warranty
[2] Agreement
[3] Problems, Comments and Questions
[4] Installation and Requirements
[4.1] Franchise Football Quick Setup
[4.2] Using a Configuration File
[4.3] Multi-Node Setup
[4.4] Nightly Maintenance
[4.5] START.BAT and In Game Modules
[5] Command Line Parameters
[6] Special Keys
[7] Additional Utilities and Bulletin Files
[8] IGM's: What are they, and what do they do?
[9] Thanks
[1] Warranty:
No warranty of this product is given, either explicit or implied. I do
not promise that this program will either run, or anything else. While
I have made an effort to test it on several systems, and configurations,
it is impossible to test all possibilities. If you do have trouble with
the use of this product I would like to hear about it. Please feel free
to Email me at the above Internet address.
*** Warning: This product is a wide beta release, and there may be
problems with it. The game has been rigorously tested for
nearly three months in various forms, however, there still
may be bugs. If you run across a problem that you think may be
an error, please contact me, Scott Snella at the above
internet addresses, or at FIDO 1:332/129 and report the problem.
In addition, if you have any suggestions and/or comments please
do the same. The best way to improve the game is to take good
ideas from the users and make them reality.
[2] Agreement:
Please feel free to distribute this shareware version of Franchise
Football. It may be included in, but not limited to the following
means of distribution, CD ROM's, BBS downloads, floppy disk distribution.
A small fee may be charged by the distributor for the price of disks or CD
ROM manufacture.
The official distribution site list in the file DISTRO.DOC is a list of sites
where the latest version of all SnellaSoft products should be available. If
for some reason one of the sites is no longer a member, has gone down,
or for some other reason does not have the software, you may get a copy from
one of the others. This list (DISTRO.DOC) is not a list of the only boards
allowed to carry the software, again please feel free to upload this package
in it's unregistered form to as many systems as you'd like.
Please remember that in the world of online services, the Internet, and
private BBS's, things crash, go down or for other reasons are unavailable.
I will make every effort possible to inform you of the sites where you may
obtain a copy of Franchise Basketball, Franchise Football, or any other
SnellaSoft releases, but situations may be out of my control (hence, the
growing list of places to obtain your new copy).
I give you the right to run one Franchise Basketball game on your BBS or
LAN, and only one game, with the unregistered version. You may continue to
run only one game at a time for an reasonable period of up to 4 months. I
have disabled several functions for the unregistered version, and view that
as an incentive to register the game for $20. You may not, run more than
one unregistered copy of the game. Please remember that for us to continue
to design great games, we need your support.
[3] Problems, Comments and Questions:
If you have any questions, comments, problems, or notice any bugs in the
program, please contact me immediately either at FIDO: 1:332/129, or VIA
the Internet email at aq239@detroit.freenet.org. I will attempt to answer
the question, fix the problem or add suggestions to later versions of the
software.
Remember, the latest versions of Franchise Basketball may be obtained from
all distribution sites in the DISTRO.DOC, at Mos Eisley 413-684-4266, or
by Internet FTP at the following locations:
ftp.jaxnet.com /private/mconn/FFBL###.ZIP
### = the current version of the software.
[4] Installation and Requirements:
For quick and easy setup (on a one node BBS), I have included a
short .DOC files with this distribution archive, SETUP.DOC. It details the
setup procedure for a BBS system. These files are smaller and easier to
print and read than the information below.
NOTE: Franchise Football, unlike Franchise Basketball does NOT take
stadiums and purchased items away at the end of the season
(in perpetual games). For this reason, it is sometimes
difficult for users to make enough money to buy new items
(stadiums, concessions, etc). Therefore, we suggest that you
allow several days between games for merchandise efforts and
bank interest to accumulate, and play several regular season
games (16 is a normal professional football season). This
should allow users to get a good feel for the game, train
some players and upgrade a couple of levels in everything.
*** Franchise Football creates several datafiles. It is suggested that
you have up to 1.5 megabytes of free hard disk space available
prior to installation. Many of these files are created the first
time MAINT.EXE plays games.
If you have a non-standard modem and IRQ setting (and are not running a
fossil driver), are operating a multi-node BBS, are running a LAN game,
playing on a PC or wish additional configuration for the door, please
read "Using a Configuration file" below.
Franchise Football uses ANSI screen codes to create a friendly user
interface, and therefore must be run on a BBS using at least ANSI terminal
emulation. RIP and AVATAR setups will also function fine. Most LAN or PC
users will not have to worry about this, the screen codes for those setups
are handled by your DOS, or BIOS. Monochrome and B&W VGA users may "lose"
some of the text due to color translation problems. This will not effect
the game, just your view of the screen.
[4.1] Franchise Football Quick Setup
- Unzip the Franchise Football Archive to its own directory.
- 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". Answer all of
the questions. Then Quit the FINIT program
- Franchise Football, unlike earlier versions of Franchise Basketball
(FBB 1.23 and before), may run external IGM's. To support IGM's,
your game must start from a batch file similar to START.BAT
(included with FFBL). It is suggested that you edit START.BAT for
your system, and call that batch file from your BBS. FFBL supports
many major BBS drop files, and all you have to do is copy your drop
file to the FFBL directory before running the program. The main EXE
file is called FOOTBALL.EXE.
Here is a sample batch file. (If you are running a multi-node
system, non-standard PORT's or IRQ's, or want additional
configuration of the door, refer to section 4-2, "Using A
Configuration File". In addition if you find that your BBS's drop
file is not supported, you may define your own dropfile format
in the *.CFG file mentioned in section 4-2.)
UPDATE: After extensive work with the configuration file system, I
feel that it is the best method of executing the door. The "quick
setup" method is included for compatibility reasons, but time
permitting, you should use the configuration file.
COPY C:\BBS\DROPFILE.??? C:\FFBL\DROPFILE.???
:RUNFFBL
C: