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                           Boogers/2

                              by
                        James Robert Ray

                              aka
                            Particle

SO WHAT IS BOOGERS?

        Well, Boogers is a tcp/ip game that pits up to four people against
each other.  What are you supposed to do?  Eat the other people's boogers,
of course!

SOUNDS FUN, HOW DO I DO IT?

        Well, find someone to play with first.  You can't play by yourself,
so if you can't find anyone to play with you, I suggest you pick your nose
instead.
        Once you've found that someone or someones special, decide amongst
yourselves who gets to be SERVER.  The rest of the players are CLIENTS.

If you are...

SERVER OR CLIENT

        1) pick Game | New

        2) enter your name where it says 'Your Name'

SERVER

        3) click on the server radio button

CLIENT

        3) click on the client radio button

        4) enter the hostname of the server

SERVER

        4) wait for all the clients to connect

        5) press "Play With These"

CLIENT

        5) just sit there and wait for the game to begin


        Confused?  Good!


        Now, if you see boogers, you're ready to play.


OH NO I HAVE TIA!

        Hmm, me too.  I had to stick something in my .tiarc file before I could
be a server.  This doesn't work for all versions of TIA, so if it doesn't work
for you, you can either be the client, or you can run SLiRP.  Dunno what that
is?  Too bad, this is about Boogers!
        Okay, put this in your .tiarc file:

                -r:9997 9997

        If you're a SLiRPer, you've got a .slirprc that needs this:

                redir tcp 9997 to 9997

        Tell your clients to connect to the machine that you ran TIA (or
SLiRP) on.  If this is all too much for you, find someone to be a server!

THE DIFFERENT STUFF

        On the right hand side, the players are listed, and there will be
a little booger next to one of the names.  It's that player's turn!  Look
alive people!  If you've got a booger by your name, MOVE!

        On the bottom of the window, you've got your standard chat system.
Two boxes, one big (on top) and one little (on bottom).  Type into the little
one, and hit return.  What you type goes into the big box (oooh, magic!).  What
other people type goes into the big box too (oooh, magic!).  If you see
"Congratulations, you've won $1,000" in the big box, you're imagining things.
Don't call [phone], because you haven't won any money.  No really,
I'm serious.

        Everything else is the boogers playing ground.  Depending on the
number of people playing, you start out with either 1 or 2 boogers.  Use
them wisely!  Resist the urge to eat them....you'll get to eat the other
guys' soon enough.

HEY, THERE'S A LITTLE BOOGER BY MY NAME

        Guess what, it's your turn.  Those other people, listed next to your
name, they're waiting for you to move.  They probably think you're a moron,
because you haven't gone yet.  What are you doing, just sitting there?  Do
you have your finger up your nose again?  Get a clue!

        Click on one of your boogers.  Wow!  A little box.  Cool.  Click
somewhere near the booger you clicked on.  Wow!  It moved.

        Okay, here's the scoop: when you click on an adjacent square, your
booger splits into two.  That's right, you suddenly have one more booger in
your arsenal.  But, if you click on a square two squares away, your booger
just doesn't have the energy to split and move that far.  So, it just moves
there, vacating its old spot.

WHAT'S THE POINT?

        This is about eating boogers, so get out there and eat some!  Move,
jump, flick, ooze, or otherwise occupy a square next to an enemy booger, and
yes, that's right boys and girls, you eat that booger!  Jumped into a hole
surrounded by enemy boogers?  Party time!  You've just eaten a whole lotta
boogers.  The more the better!  Munch em down!  Yummie yummie.

HOW DO I WIN?

        Why does everyone always want to know this?  Is winning THAT
important?  No!  I say it isn't.  Ask not how many boogers you can eat for
your own gain...  Uh, never mind.

HOW DO I LOSE?

        Well, if you can't move, you're stuck.  Seems rather obvious, doesn't
it?  Yes, but these readme files are here to point out the obvious.  Most
people don't even read these, they just jump in and go.  That's okay, that's
perfectly fine...and when the other people playing with you are wondering
what the hell you are doing, staring at the booger next to your name, you can
tell them, "Readme?  Ha!  I laugh in the face of readme!"

        So when can't you move?  Well, if you're surrounded by boogers, and
can't jump out, you can't move.  Or, if there is no more empty squares to
move to, well then everyone's SOL, aren't they?  When you're surrounded,
and only one player is able to move, YOU LOSE!  When all the squares are
gone, and you have less boogers than your opponents, YOU LOSE!

OKAY, SO I LOST

        Don't worry, I usually do to.  Well, if you're the server, then you
can choose Game | New again, and a new game will begin.  Another chance to
do something healthy...  Eat boogers?  Drink overpriced water?  I don't know.
Well, yes I do, I wrote the program.  Okay, I guess a new game will start.
        If you're the client, there's really not much you can do.  Try picking
Game | New.  Go ahead, I triple-dog dare you!

THIS REALLY SUCKS AND I DON'T WANT ANYMORE TO DO WITH IT

        So close the game and be done with it already.  You're annoying me.

WHERE DO I SEND THE HATE MAIL?

        To me, of course.  You could send it to someone else if you really
wanted, but what good would that do?

        /whois particle

        James Robert Ray
        [e-mail]

        I welcome comments, suggestions, flames, love poetry--er, scratch
that, I know how awfully you write.

THE MAKING OF BOOGERS/2

        I used GCC+EMX to make this little gem.  If it blows up in your face,
it's probably because it's my first C program!  What's more fun than writing
your first C program, your first OS/2 program, your first PM program, your
first multithreaded program, and your first TCP/IP program ALL AT ONCE?
        Oh yeah, I wrote it in a couple weeks.  Kinda makes you sick, doesn't
it?

        Well, I certainly can't take all the credit for myself.  Hey, I'm
slimey, but not THAT slimey.

        Sophisto (Stephen Loomis) needs a big high-six from all you freaks
out there for helping cloud my head with a lot of socket drivel.  He was there
every day, all the time, when I kept asking him stupid questions, questions
that I should have known already, questions that I should have looked up the
answer to in a book, questions that would "try the patience of a saint," if
I don't mind robbing that from someone.  He was there, I should say, until he
ABANDONED me to go work at some silly job.  He just LEFT me!  Gone for months,
he said...  Well, see if I'm friends with him when he gets back!

        Dandaman (Dan D. Libby) doesn't have a job, so he has no shelter from
my constant barage of questions about PM programming.  Hey, he's pretty good
at it.  Have you seen Bummer?  Well, me neither.  How about VC/2?  I bet you
think Sophisto wrote that!  No, Sophisto only wrote the stuff that sends your
voice out across the internet.  Dan, on the other hand, wrote that thing with
all the buttons on it!  Cool, huh?  Oh yeah, well, if it wasn't for Dan, the
world would smell a lot better.  But, besides that, Boogers probably wouldn't
be either.  Also, Dan needs to be commended on his courage, for risking life
and limb by running the pre-alpha versions of Boogers/2 on his computer.  I'd
even have more nice things to say about him, if he'd let me win once in a
while.

        Hami (Craig Hamilton) has somehow not had the chance to play Boogers,
although he's been perfectly willing to alpha test it.  I never seem to send
him a version that works right.  Poor Hami, I feel bad.  He's such a swell
guy, and smart!  Even if his timing is off being a Boogers playtester, he's
one hell of a Cyberhunt partner!  http://www.cyberhunt.com.  I won ME2, AT&T
Multimedia Designer, and OS/2...  What did you win?  Nothing?  Neener neener
neener!

        Um, who else?  Well, thanks everyone who helped test Boogers!

AM I ABOUT TO BEG FOR MONEY?

        Yes!  Guess what, Booger/2 is free!  That's right!  I wouldn't
expect you to pay real money for garbage!  But, since I'm a poor, out-of-
work, starving programmer, who wants more RAM, a better compiler, and out
of poverty, I accept donations!

        However, if you're broke like me, you can still do something to
clear your conscience of guilt.  Send me a post card!  Send me a picture of
your butt!  Spend the price of a lousy stamp!

        James Robert Ray
        2775 Mesa Verde Dr. East #F101
        Costa Mesa, CA  92626

OTHER CRAP THAT I HAVE DONE

        Well, if you can stomach running Windows, I have written a CD player
for Windows...  I know what you're thinking, there are hundreds--no--thousands
of CD players out there!  Well, mine scrolls the lyrics to the words.
        Now, before you get all excited, NO, it doesn't figure out the words
all by itself.  What do you expect for $10?
        Oh yeah, that's right, it is shareware.  Sorry guys, but I wasn't
joking when I said I was broke. :)

        VocalCD

        oak.oakland.edu:/SimTel/win3/cdrom/vocl148c.zip

        It's also on CICA, if you can get on (or the mirror)

        ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/sounds/vocl148c.zip
        ftp.cdrom.com:/.5/cica/win3/sounds/vocl148c.zip
                                ^^^^^^^^
                                        \ Can't say I'm sure about this.

ISN'T THIS THING OVER YET?

        No!  This is my readme and I can type as long as I want to!  I only
want to waste your time a little bit longer to say I hope you like Boogers.
I guess I had fun writing it, and hopefully I won't be so sick of it that I'll
actually want to play it with some of you.

        Come find me on IRC #os/2 and bug me!

        See ya!

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