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- Steel & Ice v2.01 - February 25th, 1993 ∙
- Copyright (c) 1992,93 Minds Edge Productions, Inc ∙
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ∙
- SYSOP.DOC - Sysop Documentation ∙
-
-
- Section Name Section Number
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- - [ Acknowledgements ] - - [1.0] -
-
-
- Compiled under TurboPascal v6.0 by Borland International.
-
- Main programming and ANSI by Dion Loy.
- Remote menu/windowing routines by Peter Lam.
- Timer functions by Gerald Gutierrez.
- Registration encryption by Norman Yen.
- Beta testing by James Hargrave, Peter Lam, Richard Downey,
- Bill Wilson, Damien Sam, Tom Marinis, Jason Feng, Byron
- Thelner, Weilang Guay, Bryan Anthony, Dayton Turner, Lawrence
- Lee, Anthony Fawcett, and anyone else I might have forgotten.
-
- S&I was tested under the following systems :
-
- 386/33mhz 386/33mhz 386/16mhz
- USR 16.8 DS USR 14.4k HST PB 2400
- Renegade 12-21 RemoteAccess v1.11+ SuperBBS v1.17 G-1
- DESQView f/t Novell LAN DESQView Multinode
- 4DOS 4.00 MS-DOS 5.00 MS-DOS 5.00
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- 486/33mhz
- USR 16.8 DS & 9600v32
- SuperBBS v1.17 G-1
- DESQView Multinode
- 4DOS 4.01
-
- Turbo Pascal is a registered trademark of Borland International, Inc.
- DESQview is a registered trademark of QuarterDeck, Inc.
-
- Steel & Ice is not a Public Domain or Free piece of software. It is
- Copyright (c) 1992,93 by Minds Edge Productions Inc. All Rights
- Reserved.
-
-
- - [ Disclaimer ] - - [2.0] -
-
-
- This software and accompanying materials are distributed "as is"
- without warranty, expressed or implied; including but not limited
- to any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
- particular purpose. In no event shall Minds Edge Productions Inc.
- or anyone involved with the creation and production of this product
- be held liable for any damages, including, but not limited to, any
- lost profits, savings, data or other incidental, indirect, special,
- or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use
- this software, or for any claim by any other party, even if Minds
- Edge Productions Inc. or any of Minds Edge Productions Inc. agents
- have been advised of the possibility of such damages. The person
- using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance
- of the software.
-
-
- - [ Lisencing Agreement ] - - [3.0] -
-
-
- Distribution and use is subject to the following conditions:
-
- 1. Please try to distribute only the original authenticated ZIP format
- file.
-
- 2. You are encouraged to distribute Steel & Ice provided that no
- fee is charged for its distribution. Written permission must be
- obtained before including Steel & Ice with any "bundled"
- software package that is marketed and distributed for profit,
- such as those for sale by vendors, individuals or companies. Pay
- Bulletin Board Systems may however charge their regular fee provided
- that no additional charge for Steel & Ice is levied. A copying
- fee of $3.00 Canadian or less per diskette may be charged by a
- non-profit user-group.
-
- 3. No part of Steel & Ice may be modified, altered or reverse
- engineered.
-
- 4. Steel & Ice may not be used in any unlawful or illegal manner.
-
- 5. Minds Edge Productions Inc. is not obligated to provide future
- versions of or support for, Steel & Ice.
-
- 6. Minds Edge Productions Inc. reserves the right to change or modify
- its registration policies for Steel & Ice, including the price.
-
-
- - [ Upgrading from v1.xx ] - - [4.0] -
-
- Because of the _numerous_ changes made since v1.00 and v1.10,
- v2.01 of Steel & Ice will require a completely new installation.
- The easiest way to do this is to delete your old version, and
- setup v2.01 as outlined in Section 5.0 of this documentation.
-
- - [ Upgrading from v2.00 ] -
-
- As v2.01 is only a minor bug fix, you may just overwrite the .EXEs
- in order to upgrade.
-
- - [ Setup and Installation ] - - [5.0] -
-
- Steel & Ice is setup like any other door. The items indicated
- in the square brackets ('[',']') show a suggested setup. Your
- system configuration will no doubt be different. This is just
- the configuration that the author uses for his BBS.
-
- 1. Create a directory to store all Steel & Ice files.
- [ C:\ONLINES\HOCKEY ]
- 2. UnZip S&I_201.ZIP into the new directory. Steel & Ice is
- packaged with an AV check provided by PkWare Inc. While
- unzipping the archive, if you find that your copy does
- not have the symbol "-AV" beside each file, the archive
- has been modified, and is not the origional archive as released
- by Minds Edge Productions Inc.
- 3. Change to the directory, and run the program SETUP.EXE
- 4. Select the option "Setup S&I" and input all the information
- that it asks for. "Reset S&I" is not necessary, as the
- game will create all the necessary data files when it is
- first run.
- 5. SETUP.EXE will create a batch file called S&I.BAT. This
- batch file can be used on _most_ BBS systems to call up
- Steel & Ice. You may wish to edit this batch file if you
- are running off a multinode system with different DORINFOx.DEF
- files.
- 6. Set up your BBS software to call S&I.BAT with a drop file
- of either DORINFOx.DEF or DOOR.SYS. Steel & Ice will read
- either one according to the information supplied previously.
-
- Steel & Ice should be completely functional now. SETUP.EXE creates
- a file called HOCKEY.CFG. This is an plain ASCII text file that
- contains some information about your system. This is needed for S&I
- to function properly. The format of the text file is provided below :
-
- 1st Line : Sysop's Full Name
- 2nd Line : BBS Name
- 3rd Line : Locked baud rate [0 if no locked baud]
- 4th Line : BBS Type : 1 - Dorinfo1.Def
- : 2 - Door.Sys
- 5th Line : Number of days the league should last
- 6th Line : Time in seconds per period [90 Recommended]
-
- This can be edited with any text editor. When comparing registration
- codes, Steel & Ice retrieves the sysop name and BBS name from this
- file. Take care when filling out your registration forms to provide
- the same sysop and BBS name as edited in HOCKEY.CFG.
-
- - [ Maintenance ] - - [6.0] -
-
- The first user to play Steel & Ice every day triggers the maintenance
- event. Maintenance will create a new news file for the day, delete
- any players that haven't called in 10 days, and reset the league if
- the league life has expired. The computer will also play each team
- that did not play the day before, and update the statistics to provide
- for fairer league stats. Players can view how their teams did while
- they were absent by viewing the news file. Final scores will be
- printed at the end of these files.
-
- - [ Multinode / Novell LAN ] - - [7.0] -
-
- Steel & Ice can be used on multinode or Novell LAN BBS systems that
- generate a DORINFOx.DEF file where x is the node number. On the
- command line, specify the location of the drop file, and which node
- number the game is running on. For example, to load up DORINFO3.DEF
- from the directory C:\BBS, specify :
-
- HOCKEY C:\BBS 3
-
- You may wish to edit the S&I.BAT batch file to accomodate these
- parameters. For systems such as Remote Access, that generate ONLY
- DORINFO1.DEF regardless of which node has spawned the game, just
- provide 1 as your node number to all nodes.
-
- - [ Door Information ] - - [8.0] -
-
- Steel & Ice accepts the following command lines :
-
- 1. Running under DORINFOx.DEF setup -
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- HOCKEY <Path to DORINFOx.DEF> <Node Number>
-
- 2. Running under DOOR.SYS setup -
-
- HOCKEY <Path to DOOR.SYS>
-
- While in the door, the following keys are available to the sysop :
-
- Alt-C : Invoke full-screen chat mode. Press ESC to exit.
- Alt-H : Hang up the phone.
- Alt-X : Exit game immediately (use with caution).
- Alt-J : Jump to DOS.
- Up : Increases user's time by two minutes.
- Down : Decreases user's time by two minutes.
- F1..F4 : Various different status bars
-
- - [ Bugs & Suggestions ] - - [9.0] -
-
- Steel & Ice has been under beta testing for the past two months.
- However, no amount of beta testing can retrieve all the bugs
- present in a program. If you encounter a bug or run-time error,
- please write down where it occured and the address of the error
- if available. The author can be contacted on :
-
- Myth Drannor BBS [Fido 1:153/420]
- (604) 922-9748 [Doornet 75:8010/303]
- USRobotics 16.8 HST Dual Standard
- or :
- Dion Loy
- 1120 Hillside Road
- West Vancouver, B.C.
- V7S 2G4
-
- - [ Resetting ] - - [10.0] -
-
- Steel & Ice is automatically resetted at the end of every league.
- The league length can be set by using the SETUP.EXE program (see
- section 5.0 Setup). If you want to reset Steel & Ice manually,
- select the option "Reset S&I" in the setup program. This will
- delete TEAMS.DAT and *.NWS. Do not delete SYSTEM.DAT, as this
- contains your registration information.
-
- - [ Future Versions ] - - [11.0] -
-
- Steel & Ice is constantly undergoing development. The following
- ideas are presently being 'tossed around' :
-
- 1. ANSI logos of the 24 NHL teams. The prospect of this
- will depend on each of the 24 NHL teams for permission.
- 2. Expanded team roster to include 2-3 different lines, more
- goalies, and more players.
- 3. The Stanely Cup at the end of the league.
- 4. More functions, like clearing/icing the puck, pulling the
- goalie, line changes, etc...
- 5. Addition of Anaheim and Miami as the expansion franchises
- when details have been finalized.
-
- - [ Registration ] - - [12.0] -
-
- You may use Steel & Ice v2.01 for as long as you want without
- registering. However, if you want to help support the further
- development of this game, a small registration price of $15.00
- would be appreciated. With the registered version, Steel & Ice
- will allow the user to play up to 19 exhibition games after his/
- her initial first game of the day (unregistered version currently
- limits players to one game / day). As well, your copy will be
- personalized with the sysop's and BBS's name.
-
- To register, fill out and print REGISTER.DOC and mail it with a
- cheque for $15.00 Canadian (British Columbia residents add 6%
- sales tax; $15.00 American if you are residing outside of Canada).
- The address and further information is located in REGISTER.DOC.
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