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| Metro-Trivia |
| for Metro BBS |
| by |
| Mark D. Turner |
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The following files should be included in your Trivia package:
DOOR9 <-- the main program
TRIVIA.DOC <-- this documentation
TRIV-OP.DAT <-- text file with trivia operator's name in it
MENU.DAT <-- text file with categories and file names
GENERAL-1 <-- text file of general trivia questions
ROCK-1 <-- text file of rock 'n roll trivia questions
STARTREK-1 <-- text file of Star Trek trivia questions
TURTLE-1 <-- text file of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle questions
TRIV-OP.DAT is a three-line text file. The first line has the name of the
trivia operator. The second line is the user-id number of your remote trivia
operator, who takes care of the related files. If there is no remote
operator, other than the sysop, enter a 0 for the second line. The third
line should be YES if you want the correct answers to be shown after a wrong
answer is given. NO if you do not. This file can be changed from within
Metro-Trivia in the Maintenance Area.
MENU.DAT is a text file of the categories of questions that will be available
to the players. There is a maximum of 20 categories allowed. Each category
requires a two-line entry. The lines are:
1. The description that will appear on-screen
2. The name of the file with the questions and answers
An example:
General Trivia #1
GEN-1
General Trivia #2
GEN-2
Beatles Trivia #1
BEAT-1
Movie Trivia
MOVIE
In the above example, the player would be given the choice of:
1 General Trivia #1
2 General Trivia #2
3 Beatles Trivia #1
4 Movie Trivia
The files GEN-1, GEN-2, BEAT-1 and MOVIE would also have to exist.
Q U E S T I O N S
Question files consist of the questions and answers. Each question would
have five lines. The first is the question and the next four are the
possible answers. The correct answer starts with an "*". Here's an example:
Who was the Beatles drummer?
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
*Ringo Starr
George Harrison
Is Paul McCartney left-handed?
*Yes
No
Which Beatles album had the "butcher" cover?
Meat The Beatles
*Yesterday and Today
Sgt. Pepper
Let It Be
Notice that the second question had only two possible answers. The other two
lines must be entered as blank lines! There must always be four lines for the
answers.
This format allows the use of trivia files that have been created for the
TAG BBS. TAG trivia files are exactly the same, except that answers are
limited to 40 characters.
You may create your question files with any text editor or with TRIVIA itself.
Users may also offer suggestions while on-line! There questions are saved to
a file named "USER-QUESTIONS".
S C O R E B O A R D
When a player finishes a set of questions, his score is automatically recorded
in the scorebook if he is in the top ten scores. There is a separate
scorebook kept for each set of questions. If a question file is named
"BEAT-1" then the scoreboard file will be named "BEAT-1.SCORE".
M A I N T E N A N C E
Only the Sysop or Triv-Op will see "Maintenance" on the main menu. Choosing
this option will bring up a menu where question files can be created, renamed,
deleted, and added or deleted from the game menu. Questions can also be
purged from a file. At the main terminal, the directory can be listed.
Remote triv-ops cannot do this.
H I S T O R Y
V1.0 The original version. Every question in a question file is asked.
The program keeps track of how many are answered correctly. Score
files are named with a ".SCR" ending. Question files should be
small (25-50 questions).
V2.0 Questions are randomely picked from the question files. Betting was
added. 10 questions are asked and then there are bonus questions.
Score files are named with a ".SCORE" ending. Question files should
be large (100's of questions).
I N F O R M A T I O N
Metro-Trivia was written by Mark D. Turner. I've always wondered if a share-
ware author asked for really low donations if he'd get anything. So, I'm
calling this program Next-To-Nothing-Ware. Use if forever and ever with
no strings attached. But, if you think it's slightly worthwhile (or better),
then pop 25 cents or so into the mail to:
Mark D. Turner
P.O. Box 64
Bluefield, VA 24605
You'll never miss the money and if only 100 people send it in, I'll have $25
to encourage the development of future freebies. Go ahead, surprise me, and
mail something to me!
I also run a part-time bbs, called The Outer Limits. Currently, it runs from
8:00 am to 7:00 pm from Monday-Friday. Frequently, it's on until 10:00 pm
and weekends, too. Any problems can be reported to me there. The number is
304-327-7452. Yeah, that's right, it's a West Virginia number, even though
the mailing address is in Virginia. We're right at the state line and the
story isn't anything you'd care to hear.
I hope you find Metro-Trivia of use. I have also released doors titled
Guess Again!, which is somewhat like The Wheel of Fortune, and Acey Ducey.
Other ideas are in the works, too. Also, available from me, as stand-alone
programs, are AutoRay (an AutoCad to Sculpt-3D/4D translator) and Revenge of
the Invaders.
Have fun (or whatever else turns you on)!
Thanks to Percy Broadnax for creating Metro-BBS and the door routines.