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- +:+:+: G L O B A L W A R 2 :+:+:+
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-
- Online game for Xenolink BBS by Janne Paakkonen
-
- Adapted from the IBM PC's Global War by Joel Bergen
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-
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- For Sysops
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-
- PLEASE NOTE: Global War is a pure XENOLINK DOOR
- It will not run on other bulletin board systems
-
-
- - - - This version is for Xenolink Z3 and Z4 - - -
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- ===============================================================
-
- Finally got it done... it was 1,5 years since version 1.18d but
- better late than never; Global War 2, the sequel.
-
- Please read the GW2.History file to check out what has been
- changed in this release. There are lots of improvements and
- new features. Enjoy!
-
-
- Some words about the status of this program:
-
- GLOBAL WAR 2 FOR XENOLINK/AMIGA IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. YOU MAY
- USE, COPY AND DISTRIBUTE THIS PROGRAM IN UNLIMITED COPIES
- WITHOUT PAYMENT, TO OR FROM YOU, AS LONG AS THE DOCUMENTS
- AND EXECUTABLES ARE NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY.
-
-
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- GW2 ARCHIVE CONTENTS
-
- The archive should contain these files:
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- GlobalWar Executable (the game)
- GWConvert Executable (convert GW 1.18d -> GW 2)
- GWSysops.doc This file!
- ReadMeFirst.txt Hopefully you have already read this
- GW.con Configuration file
- GW.doc The online manual
- GWTeam.doc Team game manual
- GWRanks.txt Edit this to make your own rankings!
- GWPoints.doc Describes how the scores are counted
- GW2.History Read this to check out what has been
- changed since GW v1.18d
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-
- INSTALLATION
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-
- Update old 1.18d --> new GW2 format
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you already have Global War 1.18d installed in your BBS,
- you must convert the GW.dat datafile to the new GW 2 format.
- This is necessary as the GW2 games holds more information
- than the old 1.18d games.
-
-
- Do the following:
-
- 1) Make sure that you have assigned DOORS: to the Xenolink
- doors directory.
-
- 2) Run GWConvert and follow the instructions.
- (It is a small program that should be in the GW2 archive)
-
- 3) Copy the new GW2 files over the old ones (simply copy all
- files from the GW2 archive to DOORS:GlobalWar/)
-
- 4) Done - play the game!
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-
-
-
- If you install Global War for the first time...
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- Make a directory called "GlobalWar" in the Xenolink doors
- directory (usually assigned as DOORS:).
-
- Copy all files from the GW2 archive into DOORS:GlobalWar/
-
- Edit the Xenolink doormenu.src file. Global War 2 should
- be executed in the following way:
-
-
- IF YOU HAVE XENOLINK VERSION Z3:
-
- XenolinkDoor "^10000^8^GlobalWar/GlobalWar"
-
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- IF YOU HAVE XENOLINK VERSION Z4:
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- XenolinkDoor "^10000^8^DOORS:GlobalWar/GlobalWar"
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-
- Explanation about the parameters above:
-
- ^10000 use a stack of 10,000 bytes
-
- ^8 allow eight nodes to run GW2 simultaneously
- (any number of nodes will work, you decide)
-
- ^GlobalWar/GlobalWar (Z3)
- ^DOORS:GlobalWar/GlobalWar (Z4)
- this is the directory and filename in DOORS:
- (in other words, the complete pathname is
- DOORS:GlobalWar/GlobalWar)
-
-
- Now you're almost done. Just edit the GW.con configuration
- file (explained below) to customize GW2 for your system.
-
-
- GW.CON - THE GLOBAL WAR CONFIGURATION FILE
-
- This is really simple!
-
- Load the GW.con file (should be in the GW2 archive) into
- your favourite text editor and edit the lines according
- to the following:
-
-
- Line This is what you should put there...
- ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- 1 Full pathname of the score file
- For eg. "DOORS:GlobalWar/GWscores.txt"
-
- 2 Pathname to Hall-of-all-times-top-scorers
-
- 3 The bbs name - is shown on the title screen
-
- 4 Pathname to the Global War game document
-
- 5 Pathname to the Team instructions
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- 6 Pathname to the Points document
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- 7 Number of days before deleting inactive players
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- 8 Default number of games a player can start
-
- 9 Number of days a completed game can be examined
- before it's deleted
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- 10 Number of days a game will wait for more players.
- If the game doesn't start in time, it will be deleted
- to make room for new games
-
- 11 Number of points a rank is worth
-
- 12 The default log-in name (normally the sysop).
- This name is used if you press enter with no name at
- the log-in prompt when running Global War from CLI.
- If you haven't typed a log-in name at line 12 and press
- enter (without entering any name at the login prompt),
- the program will quit. Name length is max 19 characters
-
- 13 Access level to enter the sysop's menu. If the user
- has a lower level, he cannot enter the menu.
- The access level here must be at least 1.
-
-
- Note; all pathnames can be maximum 64 bytes in length.
-
- When you are done with the GW.con file, save it in the
- DOORS:GlobalWar/ directory.
- If you have made a mistake somewhere, Global War 2 will
- inform you of the type of error and on which line it
- occured.
-
-
-
- ============= End of GW2 Sysop's documentation ===============
-