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BY
<<< Mark E. Smerchek >>>
Galactic Warrior is a space trading/war game. There a quite a few
different door games that hold this title. I feel that "Galactic Warrior"
rates up there with the best of them. I wrote this game in a modular fashion
so that updating and enhancements can be made with least effort and time
possible.
Galactic Warrior is the game that took hundreds of hours of work.
The total source code to date is over 16 thousand lines. Though the total
number of lines in a game doesn't mean anything if you don't write tight code.
I program for a living and also for fun. I enjoy the challenge and
the satisfaction of writing programs no matter what they are. This door was
a challenge and fun to write. I will keep adding enhancements and new
features to this game as I think of them or when players of the game send in
new ideas. I believe this game will run clean without errors, however this
is not a commercial product, just done in my spare time.
As such there is NO GUARANTEE OF ANY KIND EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. IN NO CASE
SHALL I BEHELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES RESULTING FROM YOU
RUNNING THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF I HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF POSSIBLE OR REAL
PROBLEMS. BY RUNNING THIS SOFTWARE YOU HAVE AGREED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR ANY PROBLEMS THAT MAY RESULT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS, DO NOT RUN
ANY OF THE PROGRAMS IN THIS PACKAGE. NOT EVEN ONCE!
Getting set up :-
NetWork or Not that is the question. The following are the options
to put in the batch files to run different programs for the game.
/B - MS-Net compatible with NetBIOS machine name support
/D - Single-user DOS, no network
/M wn - MS-Net compatible. wn is the workstation number
/N - Novell Advanced NetWare
/Q - DesqView with SHARE
Decide which drive you wish to run the door on and make a directory
to hold all the files. Move all of the files in this package into your newly
created directory. You are now ready to initialize the game. Change the
following batch files to what you need for your system.
- INIT.bat - This will initialize all the databases.
- GO.bat - This will run Galactic Warrior.
- MAINT.bat - This will run maintenance in your nightly batch run.
Initializing the game :-
Before you can run the game, you must run the initialization program
"INIT.EXE". This program will set up all the data files needed to start the
game. Use this to restart a senario with all players starting out fresh.
EX. INIT.bat
Once INIT has been run, you should run the games configuration
program "SYSOP.EXE". There are default settings provided, but feel free to
experiment with whatever combination you see fit.
EX. SYSOP
Running Maintenance :-
This may be setup to either run the first time the game is played each day or
you can put 'Maint.bat' in your nightly batch cycle. No matter which way you
set the maintenance up the program will correctly calculate the number of
days since last played and update all the databases.
Running Galactic Warrior :-
Galactic Warrior will either read "DOOR.SYS" or "PROBOARD.SYS" to get
it's information on the caller and comport. I suggest using Door Master by
Michael P. Otto to convert your config file if running a different board.
Latest Door Master version: DM521.zip
Baud Rate :-
Galactic Warrior should not have any trouble at the following
baud rates.
4.77 Mhz PC (8088) 9600 baud
8 Mhz PC (8088) 19200 baud
8 Mhz AT (80286) 57600 baud
16 Mhz AT (80386) 115200 baud
Problems? :-
Leave me Mail
Registration of Galactic Warrior :-
Please see "REGISTER.DOC" for info on how to register this door.
Getting New Versions :-
You can always download the latest version of Galactic Warrior from
"The SoftWare Connection" my home base BBS (1-913-271-2070-2073 -*- 9600 HST).
You may also file request it from 1:281/2 any time but National Mail Hour
and the time period from 23:00 to 24:00 Eastern time. If you are unable to
run Galactic Warrior because of an expired key you may call
"The SoftWare Connection" and download the lastest key. (NEWG1KEY.ZIP)
Last but Not Least :-
I want to thank one and all who helped test this game. Also those
with creative ideas on how to do this and that.