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Franchise Basketball v1.xx
By: Scott K. Snella
Setup and Installation
This document provides sysops with single node, BBS systems quick setup
instructions. If you have difficulties getting the game to run or have
a multiline system, please refer to the SYSOP.DOC file for information on
using the configuration file option.
NOTE: There are two command line parameters for Franchise Basketball, an upper
or lower case L. If you'd like to try the game quick,
follow steps 1-5 below, and then type FBASKET L from the Franchise
Basketball Directory, and an optional configuration file name...
see SYSOP.DOC for more details.
INSTALLATION STEPS
1. Unzip Franchise Basketball Archive to its own directory.
(FBB uses many data files to allow for configuration, it is
highly recommended that you place the game in it's own directory)
2. Change to the directory containing Franchise Basketball (FBB) and type
FINIT. This will run the initialization program. Answer YES to
the question, "Do you wish to create a league". For first time
installs, you will be prompted for some information, including
the registration number, follow the instructions and answer the
questions.
3. You will be prompted for several options, including the number of
conferences, divisions, and teams. Each conference has as many
divisions as you enter, and each division has as many teams as
you specify, So the number of teams in the entire game will be...
Conferences * Divisions * Teams. The password toggle option
should be enabled on LAN's but not on BBS's, and the perpetual
season option will only take effect in registered versions. When
you are finished type "Q" to Quit.
4. Now you have to create a batch file to run the game from the BBS.
FBB supports many major BBS dropfiles, and all you have to do is copy
your dropfile to the FBB directory before running the program.
The main EXE file is called FBASKET.EXE (with one command line
parameter, an "L" or "l"). Here is a sample batch file.
@ECHO OFF
COPY C:\BBS\DORINFO1.DEF C:\FBB\DORINFO1.DEF
C:
CD\FBB
FBASKET
DEL DORINFO1.DEF
CD\BBS
EXIT
If you are running on a LAN, please refer to LANSETUP.DOC, for
step 6.
5. Finally, you must run the program called MAINT.EXE once per day (or
if you wish the season to move faster, more than once). Running
MAINT.EXE will create the schedule, or play games if the league
is full, otherwise it will wait until all teams have been filled.
Just put the MAINT.EXE program in your nightly events, this plays
games and creates many of the data files FBB needs. Until the
season actually begins play, several of the options (especially
in the Gazette Sports Page) will not seem to work.
6. FBB creates two score files, FBBSCORE.ANS and FBBSCORE.ASC. Both
contain last evenings game scores. The first is in ANSI format
and the second, ASCII format. Both are located in the FBB
directory and can be copied, moved or displayed from that location
to users during login. If not all of the teams are filled, the
score file acts as an ad for users to join.
7. You may want to make the file INSTR.DOC available for download. It
is a brief text file explaining the game, and detailing some
strategies for playing.
That's it! Just create a dropfile, and run this batch file, and
FBB should run fine.
Thanks for playing Franchise Basketball...
Franchise Basketball (C) 1995 SnellaSoft