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Trivia Land
Version 1.10
Copyright 1995, Jeffrey Baker
Documentation
Description
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Trivia Land is basically a conference room, where user's of
your BBS can go in and chat with each other. The difference
is that there is some strange guy in there named "Trivia Man"
who asks all these questions to the users. If a user answers
one of the trivia questions correctly then he gets to select
the topic for the next question. Trivia Man keeps track of
how many questions each user has answered correctly.
You, as the SYSOP (System Operator) of your BBS can make up
your own trivia questions and answers or add to the ones
already there. Or you could get a friend or one of your
user's to make some up. See "Editing Data Files" for more
detail.
Features:
Trivia Land offers 16550 UART support, FOSSIL support,
Digiboard support, multi-node support, multi-BBS support,
Desqview aware, local sysop function keys, and more.
PCBoard is a registered trademark of Clark Development Company.
WILDCAT! is a registered trademark of Mustang Software.
SPITFIRE is a registered trademark of Buffalo Creek Software
RBBS-PC is copyright (c) Tom Mack, Capital PC Software Exchange
QUICKBBS is copyright (c) Adam Hudson
REMOTE ACCESS is copyright (c) Andrew Milner, Continental Software
MBBS is copyright (c) Mike Anderson
DigiBoard is copyright (c) DigiBoard, Eden Prarie, MN
Running Trivia Land
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Trivia Land is ran as follows:
TRIVIA path\door.inf PORT:xxxx:xx
Here are a few examples:
TRIVIA C:\PCB\DOOR.SYS ;Using standard ports
TRIVIA C:\WC\CALLINFO.BBS PORT:03E8:12 ;Using non-standard port and irq 12
TRIVIA C:\PCB\PCBOARD.SYS PORT:F:1 ;Using a fossil driver on port 1
TRIVIA config.cfg PORT:D:5 ;Using Digiboard channel 5
If you need to specify a non-standard port address and IRQ, then the
syntax is PORT:xxxx:xx where xxxx is the base address (hex) and xx is
the IRQ (0-15 decimal).
PORT is optional, and Trivia Land will default to standard addresses
and irq's if PORT is not used based on the port number read from the
BBS file. Trivia Land will assume COM1 = 03F8 IRQ 4, COM2 = 02E8 IRQ3,
COM3 = 03E8 IRQ4 and COM4 = 02E8 IRQ 3. If the sysop had a different
non-standard port address and irq, he could then use the PORT command.
The Sysop can use the following commands while a user is in
Trivia Land:
Function key
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F5 Shell to DOS
F8 Return user to system
F9 Toggle display on/off
F10 Chat mode (use the ESCAPE key to exit)
Alternate key
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ALT-H Toggle between different status lines
Alternately pressing the ALT-H key will bring up
the next status line screen. The 1st screen is a help screen,
the second second screen shows your COM port status.
GENERIC.SYS
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For maximum compatibility, Trivia Land will also read a file called
GENERIC.SYS. This file can be created by the sysop desiring to run
the door and allow Trivia Land to operate. This would allow this door to
operate on ANY BBS system. The GENERIC.SYS file is a standard ASCII file
and contains 3 lines, each followed by a carriage return, line feed.
The format is:
line 1 - The BBS operator's name.
line 2 - The COM port in use.
line 3 - Time allowed in door.
Below is an example GENERIC.SYS file with a sysop name of Rickie,
using Com port 1, and allowing 50 minutes in the door.
Rickie
COM1:
50
Each line is followed by a C/R, L/F and the com port follows the same
format as the standard door.sys. COM0: = Local Mode (same as door.sys)
See the compatibilty issues below for more information.
Editing Data Files
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TRIVIA.DAT
Trivia Land contains a data file called TRIVIA.DAT. This file looks
similiar to this:
Music
music.trv 1
Computer Related
computer.trv 4
"Music" and "Computer Related" are both topics that are shown in Trivia
Land. You can have up to eight topics in TRIVIA.DAT. Under each
topic description is the name of the file that contains the questions
and answers for that topic. "music.trv" is the file for "MUSIC".
The number after the filename is the current question number.
So add more topics to TRIVIA.DAT if you desire. But remember that only
eight topics can be available.
MUSIC.TRV
Now for the trivia data files themselves. The data files written as
follows:
Q#1
"Only the Lonely, "Blue Angel" and "Crying" are among whose hits?
A#1
Roy Orbison
A#1
Roy
A#1
Orbison
Q#2
From what musical is "I've Gotta Crow"?
A#2
Peter Pan
Lets take a look at this file. First of all each question is preceeded
by Q#x . Where x is the question number for that question. Then the
question. It can be up to two lines long. Then on the next line is A#x .
If the question was number 1. Then the answer would be A#1. You
can have up to five answers for each question. The first answer after
each question should be the complete answer. The other answers for
each question can be partial but acceptable answers the contestants may
give.
If you notice, each trivia question file contains E# on the last line.
Remember to put that on the very last line of each question file.
So edit the trivia data files already available or create your own by
following the above guidelines. Have fun.
READ THE FOLLOWING!!!!
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One more last thing.
If your BBS crashes, the power goes out, your computer is unplugged,
or turned off while Trivia Land is being used, Trivia Land will
not be able to perform some cleanup functions. When ran again
Trivia Land will think that all the users that were on when the
program was aborted as stated above, are still on. To solve this
problem you need to erase the file WHO.DAT and all the .USR files.
A quicker way to solve this problem would be to make a temporary
directory for these files. Then make a file called DIR.DAT in the
directory containing TRIVIA.EXE.
DIR.DAT can look like this:
C:\TTEMP\
TTEMP is the temporary directory you should have made.
Then if Trivia Land is stopped without being able to perform its
cleanup functions, all you have to do is erase all the files in
the temporary directory.
There is another reason for using a temporary directory. The
reason is: More speed. Trivia Land uses alot of disk access for
its data files. You could make a temporary directory on a RAM
drive. Then specify this directory in DIR.DAT. All writing of
files will then be done on the RAM drive (memory), instead of on
a slow hard drive.
Thats it for now.
SHAREWARE
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Trivia Land is shareware. Please feel free to distibute this
version to others as long as all the files including this
documentation are distributed together unmodified.
If you like Trivia Land are using on your BBS, please send
a check or money order for $25 made out to "Jeffrey Baker".
Send to the following address:
Jeffrey Baker
242 Melody Lane
Watsonville, CA 95076
You will then recieve on floppy diskette a registered version
of Trivia Land, and a program that will allow you to register
all versions of Trivia Land that come out later. Please specify
3 1/2 or 5 1/4. To make this easier print the file ORDER.FRM
and fill it out.
To contact me send e-mail to: jeff.baker@primec.com
or send e-mail to Jeff Baker on the BBS at this number:
(408) 724-0599