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TIDBIT
Bible Trivia VGA
version 1.27 Release date: July 5, 1993
By Matthew Fecher
---------========== Program Discription =======----------
Tidbit Trivia VGA is a 256 color trivia Game. You have to
Roll a dice to move around a board and answer questions.
Your goal is to Correctly Answer a Question from every Corner
of the Playing Board.
* Make Your own Questions
* It's FREE!
* Free Support BBS
You can make your own questions for use in your
home, church, sunday school, or office. Think of this as YOUR custom
Trivia Program!
-------========== License ===========---------
CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE WITH THEM, YOU SHOULD PROMPTLY DELETE THE ENTIRE PROGRAM.
USING THIS SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE AGREEMENT.
Tidbit Trivia is Freeware, meaning you can copy it and give
to who ever you want, but you can not edit it or sell it!
Tidbit Trivia can not be modified in any respect, for any reason,
including but not limited to, de-compiling, disassembling, or
reverse engineering of Tidbit Trivia. The screens and all
of the menus, help files, and start up files must never be altered,
removed, bypassed, or disabled by any means.
You are free to distribute the publicly available shareware version
of Tidbit Trivia to others subject to the above restrictions and also
the following:
A) No fee is charged for its use.
B) No re-numeration may be accepted for Tidbit Trivia. This does
not apply to bulletin board service, online services,
etc... membership, subscription, or access charges.
C) Tidbit Trivia must be distributed in un-altered form, complete
with licensing information, full documentation, and all
accompanying files and programs. The archive must not be
altered in any respect.
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) may make Tidbit Trivia available for
download only if the above conditions are met. The archive
distributed by me or an equivalent archive may be made available
only in complete form. Refer to the File Listing for a complete
listing of all the files, use this to verify a complete packet.
If the contents appear to be altered or not complete, or you may
obtain the latest shareware release of Tidbit Trivia, see the end
of this documentation for details.
Vendors must give a description that treats Tidbit Trivia fairly. It
may not be biased. Vendors may not refer to this software as
cheap, gaudy, etc..
For Order information see ORDER.TXT
Program Files
Trivia.exe Main Executible File
Readme.exe Readme.Doc 'Reader' file
Readme.doc This Documentation
BBSADD.ans Ansi Tidbit BBS ad
Dice1.img VGA Dice #1
Dice2.img VGA Dice #2
Dice3.img VGA Dice #3
Dice4.img VGA Dice #4
Dice5.img VGA Dice #5
Dice6.img VGA Dice #6
1.img Graphics
2.img Graphics
P1.img Player Pieces
P2.img Player Pieces
P3.img Player Pieces
P4.img Player Pieces
P5.img Player Pieces
P6.img Player Pieces
P7.img Player Pieces
P8.img Player Pieces
P9.img Player Pieces
Path.img Graphics
Trivia.img Main Board Graphic
Trivia.pic Main Board Graphic
Trivia2.pic Title Screen
Mainquiz.pic Graphics
Trivia.bld Ansi Screen
Triviahlp.bld Help Screen
Bible.tqz Trivia Questions
Trivend.dat More Graphics
Trivend2.dat More Graphics
-----------============ How to Start Game ===============-------------
At the dos prompt type "TRIVIA"
Follow the instructions on the Screen and you can press F1 for help
once you are on the main playing screen.
--------========== How to make your own Questions ==========----------
* WARNING * Don't name your file: BIBLE.TQZ, because that is the question
file that comes with this, and if you modify it the program may not work!
Also, if you think that you received a version of this software that doesn't
include the orginal 100 question Bible.TQZ file, you can obtain the orginal
VGABIBLE.ZIP from the bbs described later on.
Question Files are just Text files typed a certain way so that Tidbit
Trivia can load them. To make a question file you first need to start
your favorite text editor or word processor capable of making text files.
Question files are typed in the format of:
"Question","Correct Answer","Wrong Answer","Wrong Answer"
Lets go through the steps you would take to make a question file
called sample.tqz.
1. Start your Text Editor
2. Type:
"What is one plus one?","2","4","1"
"Who wrote this program?","Matt Fecher","Weird Al","Axl Rose"
"How many pennys are in a dollar?","100","50","none"
3. Save it as: Sample.TQZ
4. Make sure that Sample.TQZ is in the same directory as Tidbit Trivia
5. Type 'Trivia' at the dos prompt
6. At the 'What question file do you want (enter) = Demo.tqz' prompt type
SAMPLE.TQZ
7. Then at the 'How many questions are there' prompt type 3 because there
were 3 questions.
Thats all you have to do, you can go back later and edit your questions, I
ask that you do not edit the DEMO.TQZ file and then distribute this program.
If you do edit it, rename it something else. You can take a look at it, to
see how the questions are written though.
* NOTE * Questions must not exceed 72 characters in length.
Answers must not exceed 36 characters in length.
-------======== Tidbit Computers and Software ==========------
This program was written by Matthew Fecher, President of Tidbit Software,
using Quick Basic 4.5. You can download a current version of this
or any of these other programs by Tidbit from Straight Street BBS.
Straight Street node 1 = (317) 482-0011 1200-14400
Straight Street node 2 = (317) 482-4458 1200-2400
If you liked this, I would encourage you to try another Program from Tidbit:
TIDTRIV.ZIP Trivia game like Bible Trivia except it is doesn't
have any Christian symbols so schools can use it.
It Doesn't come with any questions.
-----============== Other Inportant Information =======---------
I would like to thank:
Darin Johnson for help with the Docs and volunteering to have his
BBS as the support board.
David Evans for the Freeware program VGAPAINT, I used that for
most of the graphics.
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