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THIEF.BAS : A quicky utility for TRADEWARS 2002 v1.3 players
who don't like to walk the straight and narrow.
Khalil E. Abu-Saba 04/12/92
Early this year, I spent many days writing utilities for
extracting map, port, and other info out of Tradewars 2002
logfiles, only to find out that many utilities had already been
written, far better than mine. My favorite is TWVIEW88, by Robert
Weaver, which can be found at The Lost Trader's Tavern BBS
(913-832-0248), or Robert Weaver's BBS (510-376-1554). After
drowning my sorrows at the Lost Trader's Tavern, I resolved to
put together a small utility that has a few tricks which the
others didn't cover.
Thief is designed with evil hunter/rogue player in mind.
It is a very simple program, originally coded for Microsoft
QUICKBASIC, which scans log files from TW2002 v1.03 for
information on which ports you have robbed, which ones have
caught you, and what ships have docked at ports before you. This
information is stored in 3 ASCII files, which are in comma
separated format. These can be easily imported into any
spreadsheet, such as LOTUS, QUATTRO, or EXCEL.
ROBBED.CSV is an ASCII file; each line has a sector number,
followed by a comma, followed by the last date robbed
BUSTED.CSV is an ASCII file; each line has a sector number,
followed by a comma, followed by the last date you were busted
there.
SHIPLOG.CSV keeps track of docking logs from all your ports
of call. Each line has the following items, separated by commas:
Date of docking; time of docking, sector number, docking log. The
docking log is in the original text, i.e. "Frogface docked here 4
days ago" When used in conjunction with a tracer (you DO know
what a tracer is, don't you?) and a few well-placed ether probes,
this can be a handy tool for tracking down that annoying player
who you want to hurt SO badly.
I think BUSTED.CSV is the most useful file; maybe it's
just because I live on the edge. I find it handy to know when two
weeks have elapsed since getting busted at a port, so I can hit
it again. You may want to get in the habit of deleting entries
much more than 2 weeks old.
BUSTED.CSV and ROBBED.CSV are over-written, sorted by
sector number. Cumulative busted and robbed histories are retained.
SHIPLOG.CSV is appended to, in the order that logfiles are scanned.
If you scan the same logfile twice, BUSTED and ROBBED won't be
affected, but SHIPLOG will have duplicate entries. You may want
to edit SHIPLOG.CSV periodically, to eliminate out-of-date entries.
I've included the original code; it should be easy to
convert it to your favorite flavor of compiler, if you want to
tinker with the idea. If you come up with an improvement or a new
twist, send me a copy of the code, or tell me where I can
download it.
I can be reached at the Soquel BBS; 408-462-6329. Send
mail to Khalil Abu-Saba; I also check my E-mail at
abusaba@cats.UCSC.EDU (BITNET or INTERNET).
Copyright Info.......(grin):
There is no honor among thieves; I expect not a nickel,
and offer no support whatsoever. If you pass this around, please
keep my name on it.