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- BBS News v1.0
- Coded By Lightning Knight
- Additional Assistance With Lightbar Routines : Goblin
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- OverView:
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- 1 - Disclaimer
- 2 - Author's Rantings
- 3 - Programme Info
- 4 - Other Stuff You Need To Know
- 5 - Author's Greets
- 6 - Contacting The Author
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- Disclaimer:
- By using and installing this application, you hold neither Lightning Knight
- Goblin, or XPS or anyone else attached with this application liable for
- any form of damage done to your computer or BBS. In development, this code
- was designed to be harmless. Any tampering or reverse engineering without
- the express permission of Lightning Knight is illegal, lame and I will find
- you..
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- Author's Rantings:
- Boy.. I'm glad this bitch programme is done... I had most of the source
- done in 2 days... then I ran into the imagination problem (wouldn't lightbars
- be really cool for an interface..!!) well yeah.. they are and here they are
- thanx a bunch to Goblin... without this guy, you wouldn't be reading this
- stuff... his arrow key reading routines are great.. (otherwise you would
- have to use numlock and the num pad for movement...) what else... nuthin
- really.. other than that if you are not in XPS or don't use our stuff...
- boy, you must be lost... oh yeah... anyone who downloads the HAP-1196.ZIP
- off of cdrom.com... be ready for a really disappointment.. the same with the
- wOe packs... I thought I sucked when I started.. and I know my ansi never
- will be really kick ass unlike unsane or krisis or kurrupt or anyone else
- in the scene who can draw... but my ascii... ahhhh I dunno... all I can
- say is that if I joined that group.. I would be the lord jazz of it...)
- anyway enuf of the boring shit.. on with the docs...
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- Programme Info:
- Ok.. you basically need a computer (386 or better..) and some kinda BBS
- (preferably... if you use this for something else... let me know...) and
- logically thereby some callers...
- This programme will create all the necessary files that it needs.. run it
- once and two files will appear : lk-news.ans (the display file)
- news.txt (the file where you put the news)
- Ok.. edit the news.txt with any conventional text editor and make sure
- that you don't go beyond 72 columns (characters across basically) anything
- extra is chopped off... I'll work on some word wrap routines if there is a
- demand for it.. then once this is done, simply run bbsnews.exe again and
- voila, the display file will be updated (after making a choice of styles)
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- Other Stuff You Need To Know:
- This is not an online thing.. don't even attempt to use it as an online
- door until I say that it'll support it... I'm trying to find some decent
- comm routines that won't blow the exe out of proportion so that it can be
- used online.. failing that.. if you need to do remote news do this..
- write the text file up, jump to BBS dos (all decent BBS packages support
- this facility) upload it to the same directory as the exe file and run the
- exe.. then move the display to where it has to go..
- The news.txt file needs to be in the same directory as the bbsnews.exe file
- otherwise it will not be used.
- If you don't like the style, send me the ansi, a border for the text and the
- text colour (see the view styles option and you will see what I mean) and
- then wait a few days.. I'll write the ansi into the exe and send you back
- your own copy with it's own option in the lightbar...
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- Author's Greets:
- Greets to:
- - Goblin for the routines...
- - Lucifer (Chaotic Prisoner), Warhammer, Kurrupt for the news ansis
- that I used...
- - KuRu my new cosys... who's still trying to convince me to learn a
- "real" language like C...
- - Harddisk my new file base op.. who's still trying to convince me to
- run a warez board...
- - eFFeCT for bringing his domain back online.. I don't feel like
- such a freak now...
- - Ice Tiger for keeping my faith in BBS modding by requesting stuff
- - The bastard phone company for kicking me off the internet thereby
- forcing me to do work and not look at artpacks..
- - Anyone who has or is doing an ansi/ascii for my board
- (Criminal Enigma) - I hope..
- - Krisis for telling me my ascii sucked and then waiting for a while
- so that I can get ansis drawn for them...
- - Kr0nik (or however he spells it) for requesting stuff (I *will* have
- it done soon..)
- - ViruX for requesting a load of shit.. I swear I will start on it soon
- and get it done quickly...
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- Contacting The Author:
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- Call my BBS : The Electric Cube (0973) 740 611
- Email : jassimh@batelco.com.bh
- fORCENet : 50:300/1 (yes it really works..)
- ElectroNet : 60:100/1 (my own message net.. join now..)
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