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Scrabble Door - Whats.New
v3.0T Sun 01-19-1992
- * Changes to the Scrabble.Cfg file - Please edit your previous one!
Added the ability for the Sysop to change the name of the current
logged-on player (allowing him to take turns as different players).
Added the ability for the Sysop to Create/Join New Games for New Players.
Major changes to the timer and inactivity timeout routines.
Added the diplay of games being played when a user selects <P>lay.
Added generation of a Game History file, this is strictly an ASCII file
and should be displayed from the BBS only (no way to view it in game).
Added the [path\]filename to this file to the Scrabble.Cfg.
Added an optional "Extra Line" tag line that will be displayed under the
Main Menu Title. Please put your text in the Scrabble.Cfg file or leave
a blank line in the config file if you do not wish to add anything.
Removed the FOSSIL line from the Scrabble.Cfg file as it is no longer
supported.
Changed the InActivity Timeout line in the Scrabble.Cfg from minutes to
seconds.
Corrected scoring problems when one of the players in a two player game
Concedes. The win will now go, properly, to the last remaining player
no matter what the scores were at the time of the "Concede".
v3.0S Tue 12-31-1991
- Trying to resolve problems with "Dropped Carrier" when re-writing the
Status Bulletins. This fix applies to both the Door Executable and
SDMaint.
v3.0R Sun 11-24-1991
- Quite a few changes on how I'm handling User & Sysop Names in the
Bulletins, etc. I'm attempting to deal with the BBS systems that
allow single user names. You should obtain the new SDMaint v1.4
Utility as well!
v3.0Q Tue 11-05-1991
- Quick fix to allow either the old style Scrabble.Key or the new
one (expanded Sysop and BBS name lengths) to work!
No need to get a new key file if not necessary.
v3.0P Mon 10-21-1991
- Converted over completely to using Turbo Power's Async Professional
communications program. A FOSSIL driver is no longer required (or
supported).
- The program now has it's own built-in Ansi terminal. Ansi.Sys is
no longer necessary on the host machine (or for you DesqView users).
- The field widths for the Sysop and System Names have been expanded
to allow for those BBS's that get somewhat carried away with names <G>.
*NOTE* Because of this, new Scrabble.Key files MUST be obtained in
order to run the new version!
v3.0N Sat 08-17-1991
- Some major changes made in the way Scrabble handles the PASS.DAT
file. This will, hopefully, correct the problems with running the
SDMaint utility.
- Included a ViewPass.Exe utility to see what's really in there!
v3.0M Tue 11-20-1990
- Changed the TopTen Winner's Bulletin to include some CR/LF's so
that the maximum length of each line would be shortened. These long
lines were causing display problems with certain BBS programs (GT in
particular).
- Found a minor glitch in the dictionary look-up routine in that it
wouldn't find the FIRST word in the dictionary. This HAS BEEN
CORRECTED! Thanks to Morton Cohen for finding this one!
- Have decided to change the format of the Scrabble.Gam file to be
identical to the Multi-Node version game file. This will enable the
Game Editor program to work with both versions.
- I've spent quite a bit of time refining the Status Bulletin
routines (for both versions). Hopefully, things will be a little
better formatted from now on. As a result, you'll need to upgrade
both Maintenance programs as they both use the new Game Status
procedure.
- I've improved the routine for reading the Scrabble.Cfg file so that
any additional line comments are now ignored. This will allow you to
keep comments in the file for later reference. Must be at least ONE
space separating the config information and any comments!
- Along with the new Game file structure I've been able to utilize
the procedures from the MN version for determining when a game is
complete and Open for re-use. This should solve any problems you have
had with regards to recycling completed games. Let me know ASAP if
you have ANY problems.
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Chris Hall
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