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KaBoom! -- Version 2.1 -- is released!
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Remove the bombs from the grid without blowing yourself up! Hall of Fame,
three levels of difficulty, NO sysop maintenance, NO configuration files.
Watch the computer play. Full TUTORIAL MODE...teaches callers how to play!
Requires VT100 cursor positioning, but otherwise supports monochrome and
non-IBM callers (great for callers using Windows Terminal or Macs).
I'll freely admit it -- I was inspired to write KaBoom! by an article in a
magazine. There were even some code snippets, but in another language. As I
wrote it, more and more ideas for improvements came to mind, so they were
incorporated. The final product, I feel is as good as any door I've seen --
and at only $10 is a bargain in shareware.
[It also has virtually none of the original code structure, but that's how
it goes! :^)]
KaBoom! offers the following sysop features (and more I've probably
overlooked in these docs):
- As you would expect, KaBoom! monitors carrier detect functions, to
automatically recover when a user drops carrier.
- Includes a fully-adjustable inactivity timeout monitor. A warning is
sent 15 seconds before the caller is ejected.
- Share-aware file i/o for use in multi-node BBS systems. You must have
DOS's SHARE.EXE loaded for multi-node use.
- Supports most popular BBS door information files, such as DORINFO1.DEF,
EXITINFO.BBS, CHAIN.TXT, etc.
- Supports monochrome monitors and computers that do not support the entire
IBM character set.
- Displays and updates a QuickBBS-style status line, with information
available to the sysop such as user name, location, baud rate, time left,
function keys, ANSI and AVATAR settings, and so on.
- Keeps track of a user "wants-chat" indicator, just like the one in
RemoteAccess, QuickBBS and other BBS systems. Allows for sysop page from
the door, and integrated chat mode.
- Provides the sysop with all the standard function keys for adjusting user
time, hanging up on or even locking out the user -- and sysop shell to DOS.
- Full support for locked baud-rates of up to 115200 baud, using the FOSSIL
driver for maximum compatibility with any system. If a FOSSIL is not
available, KaBoom! will use its own communications routines. Auto-detect
of local operation.
- KaBoom! is also DesqView and Windows aware. It will automatically check
for the presence of a multitasker, and if available, will perform all of
its screen output through the appropriate function calls.
- Tutorial mode and computer play.
- Levels of difficulty, with separate Hall of Fame for each level.
- Support for BBS software that does not use a FOSSIL, and non-standard
comm ports
KABOOM is coming soon to a DOORNET or DDSDOORS distribution site in your
area, or you can freq the latest version directly from the author at FidoNet
node 1:231/710 using the "magic name" of KABOOM. Alternatively, the door can
be downloaded from the Communications file area of the H.O.M.E. BBS at
(317)539-6579.