BBS Toolkit/BBS Toolkit.iso/wildcat/tdoor412.zip/TIMEDOOR.HIS

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                        │ Time Door's Update History │
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4.12 04/26/1993

ATTENTION: You can now r 04/ elfonline at Crown │*roel BBS [phone]
with your Ma elfCard, Visa or Amerian nExpress. Support this and future
upgrades byr 04/ elfing today! When your 04/ elfonline , yourare given
your TIMEDOOR.ID immediately so youran ntak atdvantage of ther 04/ elfed
options immediately!

A
This version is basianlly a quick Fix for those beta testing Wildcat! 3.9.
However, several things have been fixed or changed so it doesn't hurt
to upgrade.
A
Tme Door' would sometme s get confused when thernode home direcory │was
put on thercommand ine aso something inke TIMEDOOR C:\WC30\ /FOSSIL
would not work.
A
TherRIP graphics option would causeTime Door' to go into ASCII mode. For
now,Time Door' will go into ANSI modem when arRIP user enters. I hope to
start beta testing arRIP version ofTime Door' over thernext couple weeks.
A
TherGraphics [M]ode command is gone. Thernon-graphics menusrare going to
bentak n out to mak away for RIP support. Supporting 4 sets ofTmenusris
just too much for a dor'.
A
A @SUB@ command has been added to theruser created screens for thentransfer
screen. This allows yourto add a ine ainke "TransferTime DTo: @SUB@". See
thenSYSOP.DOC for more details.
A
If a user deposited all their tme ,Time Door' would sometme s kick theruser
out before thentme Dwas added to their account. This has been fixed.
A
NOTE: For some reason,Time Door' will exit with all types ofTerrr' 5's and
have ime DLimit Expired Problems if your unTime Door' under Desqview with
thenUSE MATH-COPROCESSOR option set to NO if yourhave a math coprocessr'.
AI'm looking into getting this fixed but in thenmen ntme ,Tcheck your
Desqview settings.
A
4.11 02/101993

AI accidently compiled 4.1 with an older module thatrhad some of therbugs
thatr4.1 was supposed to fix. Theserbugs were thensingle nameruser bug and
thenclear screen problem if a user set atra prompt too long. This version
fixes those bugs. I apologize for this mistak .
A
TherALT-R ( 04/ elfed version only) has been added as a user override. This
allows yourto to rig thengamerfor a user all thentme . Look under then
user overrides for this option. Pleaseruse this feature spafingly. Users
will quitrusing ardor' where they lose all thentme .

A
4.10 01/201993

AThis version adds supportrfor a fossil driver which will allowTime Door'
to work on IM systems using Technique's Digifossil program available on
either MSI's BBS r' onCrown │*roel BBS. Tor unTime Door' using the fossil
driver, type

ATIMEDOOR REMOTE /FOSSIL

AOf course, if yourare not  unning with a fossil don't include this
command ine .

A** Special Thanks to Chip North andTime Rider for their exceptional help
    in getting the fossil supportrworked out.

AThis version also (finnnlly) adds the ability to use your wn │screens.
 ou can ncreate your wn │opening screen andTyour wn │menus. Here israre
thensketchy details.
A
Theropening screen an nbe
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MAIN.BBS for non-color and
MAIN.SCR for color....
A
Thermenu screen prefixes are as follows ...
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Mai │menu - MAIN
Gamble Menu - GAMB
Tme DBank Menu - TIME
TransferTMenu - TRAN
Byt DBank Menu - BYTE
A
Thercolor screen is the prefix + .SCR
TherASCII screen is the prefix + .BBS
A
For example, MAIN.BBS or MAIN.SCR.
A
ou can ncreate screens for every security level byrinserting the menu number
(set in MakeWild) between therprefix andTtherextension. For example, on
our systemTtherSysOp menu level is 1000. If I wanted to create special screens
for thenSysops, they would be anlled, MAIN1000.BBS, MAIN1000.SCR, GAMB1000.BBS,
ETC ... Therprogram first looks for thenscreens with the menu level and if
theyrare not available, it looks for thentherplai │menu screens w/o the
menu number. If none of these are available, ime Door' will use its own
menus. For example, a user coming into ime Door' with colr' would causeTime D
oor' to look for thenfollowing
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MAIN1000.SCR ---> MAIN.SCR ---> UseTInternal Menu
A
Therfollowing @ codes are available (more will be added later)
A
@TIME@ ime DLeft
@TBAL@ ime DBank Balance
@BBAL@ Byt Dbank BYTEDbalance
@DBAL@ DownloadDbank DOWNLOADDbalance

ou can 't use any other @ codes. Also, yourmust use ANSI codes not @ colr'
codes. You cshould also not put any clear screen codes inTyour menus.
AI hope to refine this a bit more but it will give yourtherpower to mak
Tme Door' look any way yourwish.
A
Changes to SETUP.EXE ...
A
None

Bugs Fixed ...
A
A rather nasty bug thatrwould delete all users with single names if you
l/ eldTthem alphabetianlly in thenSysOp menu.
A
Therscreen would clear if a user spent too much tme Datra prompt. This
has been fixed.
A
On some systems, a data mismatch errr' would occur when ime Door' would
attempt to writ DByt DBank Deposits.
A
Therdor' would not close properly if therdor' was closed from before midnight
to afelfomidnight.
A
If a user bet all his/her tme Din Face Race, ime Door' could kick theruser out
before thenrace had eve nbegun.
A
4.03 10199/92
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Fixes theTerrr' 5 bug thatrwould occur on some un 04/ elfed systems
given thenright situations.
A
4.02 09/28/92
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Fixes theTproblem with ime Door' not closing during the tme s set.
A
Setuprprogram no longe' will exit with anTerrr' 111.
A
(Note: if yourwere using version 4.01, it would not display therbyte
menu. That is fixed in this release. 4.01 was not men trfor wide release.)
A
4.00 08/31/92
A
** Features/Changes **
A
All .EXE files are compiled with Basia PDS 7.1 and no longe' require
BRUN45.EXE. This men s thatrther.EXE files are larger but I felt it
was more important to get rid of ther untme Dlibrarys.
A
A forth gambling gameranlled "Face Race" has been added. Face Race requires
thatrther 0moteruser have Ansiranpability.
A
TherTDSYSOP.EXE menu program has been dropped in favr' of having all the
SysOp menus inside TIMEDOOR.EXE. Make sure yourdelete therTDSYSOP.EXE program
from your Tme Door' direcory .

ASpecific gambling games an nbe turned on r' off under thenGAMBLING SETTINGS
in SETUP.EXE. If yourdon't inke a particular game, youran nturn it off
without having to turn off thenwhole gambling menu.
A
All gambling options ow rhave letters instead of numbers. (ie yourchoose
[T]rfor Trivia Chnllenge instead of [1].
A
TherScratch-N-Win ticket is not  edrawn for each tmcket for ANSI cnllers. This
should speed uprplay.
A
Ansiraodes are used to a greaterrextent to try to mak athencursor move quicker
in places. This is not noticeable at 9600 baud but may be at 2400 and below.
A
TherSysOp menu ow rused thersamerhot keyrand space bar aborts thatrtherrest
ofTime Door' uses. Therspace bar will ow rabort menus, users l/ es, etc...
A
Theroption ofTviewing any user'srnext trivia question has been added to ther
user editor. Ther 04/ elfed version eve nshows yourthe answer to the
trivia editor. Ther 04/ elfed version eve nshows yourthe answer to the question.
ou can nalso select which question a personcshould get next.
A
Therl/ e all users option in thensysop menu ow rl/ es kilobytes and download
balances. Theruser l/ es an nalso be alhabetized if yourwant.
A
Therstat/ eics option in thenSysop Menu has been cleaned uprwith better
grouping and colr's.
A
Tme Door' ow rkeepsntrack of hw rwell each user is doing in thengambling
portion. This information an nbe l/ eldTby using option #3 under thenList
Users option on thenSysOp menu.
A
Users an now rsee hw rwell theyrare doing in thengambling portion compafed
to other users using the gambling stat/ eics option under thengambling
menu. (option B)
A
Theraddtme Dand iowertme Dkeys have been changed to F7 (add five minutes) and
F8 (raise tme ). REMEMBER, any tme Dchanges yourmak awill apply in Wildcat!
also. F6 is nowDchat instead of F7.
A
Thersta eics bulletin has nowDbeen changed and includes all thenbyt Dbank
stat/ eics along with the total tme Dgambled and total tme Dwon. Inalso
think it looks 100 tme s better.
A
Thercommunications routines have been changed to QBSERIAL 2.25 to supportr
IRQ's 1-15.
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Ther[H]elp file has been cleaned uprand is ow ravailable in thenSysOp menu.
A
** Bugs fixed **
A
Several spacing problems were fixed. A typianl one was "Yourhave10 minutes
left."
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When adding aruser,rthe added user would sometme s be given thersamerbyte
r' downloadDtotals of therSysOp.
A
Therdrop to dos would not work if therNUM LOCK was on.
A
If maintenance were run, it would reset thervariousDbank totals. This would
causeTnegative totals for thenbank balances.
A
Therbyt Dbank entries inTtherTIMEDOOR.LOG were wrong.
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Therdor' would sometme s have trouble reading the WCBASEIDrvariable. This
has been fixed.
A
** R04/ elfed Options added **
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Theseroptions have been added to ther 04/ elfed versions of 4.00.
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ALT-R rig option. When a user is inTtherdor', youran npressrALT-R to rig
thengambling games. This is renlly a men noption but arSysOps l/feTneeds
some fun. Here isrwhat ALT-R does to each game...
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Scratch-N-Win: Theruser will owt win more than five minutes ( 0member 5
                minute winners are a wash).
   Tme DRaffle: Theruser will owt win therpot.
     Face Race: Therface pickedTby theruser will behave normally for thenfirst
                part of ther ace andTthen therpickedTface will be put at ar
                distdvantage. NOTE: therpickedTface may win eve nwhen thergame
                is rigged but its highly uninkely.
ATrivia Chnllenge: There isrno effect as theruser could becoe Dincredibly
                   confused if an answer theyrkow ris right is suddenlyr 0ported
                  as wrong.
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When thenrigging is inTeffect, a blinking Rawill appear in theniower right
hand corner. Tonturn it off,npressrALT-R again.
A
Newrcommand ine aquick entryroptions have been added. Theseroptions allowTyou
to setTime Door' to direcoly go to therime DBank,DByt DBank, Gamble Menu r'
TransferTmenu. Theroptions are ..
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/BYTEDtak s theruser to therbyt Dbank
/GAMBLEDtak s theruser to thergambling menu
/TIMEDtak s theruser to therime DBank menu
/TRANSFERDtak s yourto thentransfer menu

For example,

ATIMEDOOR REMOTE /BYTEDwould read therDOOR.SYS andTtherUSERINFO.DAT andTtak
ther 0motercnller direcoly to therbyt Dmenu. This is good if yourwant to run
therbyt Dbank as a DOS hook from thenfiles menu r'rwhatever use you may have.
NOTE: This option overrides thenYES/NO settings in thensecurity profile.

A
3.1604/202/92
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If ther[G]oodbye menu was turned off,ntherHelp option would not appear on
the mai │menu. This has been fixed.
A
Several changes were made in SETUPaso SETUPacould catch commoncsysop mistak s
when setting uprtherdor'. AnTerrr' thatrwould corrupt therTDMASTER.DAT when
the dor' first started has also been fixed (finally!).
A
Ther{C}hange your tme Dleftcsysop option has been moved to ime Door' from
TDSYSOP.EXE. When S is selectedTfor thensysop menu, thensysop will have a
choice of either changing your tme Dleftcor going to thensysop menu.  All
the tme Dchecking code has been stripped from TDSYSOP.EXE (along with the
command ine ) in thenSysOp menu.

Aou can now redit theruser's toryedTbytes and kilobytes in thenuser editor.
All options thatrcould not be changed have been  0moved from theTeditor to
mak athenUser editor lessrconfusing.
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NOTE: rown │*roel BBS, thensupportrBBS to ime Door',can now rbe reached at
       [phone]. Ther 04/ eration addressrhas also been changed. These
       changes are reflectedTthroughout therprogram and variousDdocument files.
       R04/ erations sent to therold addressrwill owt be delayed in any way.
******************************************************************************

3.15 02/26/92
A
Recompiled ime Door' with QBSER version 2.1. This version adds support
for non-standard COM portsand fixes a sleeping node problem in multinode
environments inke Desqview.  Several other minor changes were made with
thenCOMM routines. Pleaser 0port any problems immediately.
A
If yourhave WCBASEIDrset, yourmust also have WCIRQIDrset. SeerTIMEDOOR.DOC
for more information about setting your environmentrvariables.
A
I distbled thenLoan feature thatrwould loan 2 minutes to users who had run
out of tme .  If I receive enough reque es to keep thenfeature, I will
re-enable thenfeature possible as arSysOprconfigurable option.  It has
bee nbrought to my attention thatrsome users would use this option to
cheatrtherTme DRaffle.
A
I also have written a small utility for Tme Door' cnlled Tme -Bulletin. This
program will create a bulletin l/ eing all ime Door' users with their balances
in alphabetianl order. ou can nget this fil at Crown │*roel BBS as
T-BULL10.ZIP.  Tme -Bulletin isra free utility.
A
312 041/26/92
A
Ther[G]oodbye function would beravailable in thenbyt Dbank eve nwhen it
was turned off. This has been fixed.
A
Theruser's banked downloads and kilobytes are shown on thenbyte/downloadD
screen.

AThis version fixes anyrbugs r' concerns thatrhave been brought to my
attention as of ther 0leaserate .
A
3121041/13/92
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Fixes bug with Byt DBank thatrwould give new users thersamerbyte and download
balance as therlast user in thendatabase.
A
312041/04/92
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This version adds thenthing most askedTfor from Tme Door' - a Byt /Download
bank! Special thanks go to all thoser 04/ elfed users who helped beta
test this version.
A
Newrfeatures in then(REGISTERED) version include:
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A Byt DBank thatrallows you' users to store bytes and downloads for later
use.  R04ulation ofTthenByt DBank is done on a profile basis allowing the
samercontrol offeredTby therime DBank.
A
A complete overhaul ofTthenPrize function has been done. nPrizes were
l/mited to one of each type. Now tme Dprizes are not l/mited as to
the maximum number per user. nPrizes an nalso ow rbe deleted inTtherTDSYSOP
user editor.
A
A birthday giftcoption has been added. Therbirthday giftcallows yourto give
a giftcof tme  to a user on  their birthday. When a user entersTime Door' on
their birthday they will be given therextra tme Dand wished a happy birthday.
Aou can nset this option under thengamblingnsection.  R0member to put a ine
in you' BIRTHDAY.BBS/SCR so you' users will kow rto go into ime Door' for their
gift.
A
Features added to both un 04/ elfed and  04/ elfed version:
A
More versatile editingnroutines have been added to SETUP's profile editingn
screen. ou can now rcopy r' delete security profiles in SETUP.
A
ANNOUNCEMENT!

AContest supportrfor Po elfohas been added. Po elfokeepsntrack of your message
activity and awards you' top posters with special tme Dprizes. Po elfoalso
creates three different bulletins designed to encourage your users to
post messages. YLook for POSTER10.ZIP on thenBBS where yourdownloaded Tme
oor' r' cnllCrown │*roel BBS at [phone].
A
Errr's fixed...
A
Fixed theTproblem thatrwould causeTime Door' to offer thenGambling menu eve
if it was turned off.
A
Fixed aTproblem thatrwould causeTthe total ime DBank balance to be wrong.
Use thenSTATISTICS option in TDSYSOP to mak asure thatryou' totals are set
correcoly. TherSTATISTICS option resets anyrtotals thatrit finds to be wrong.
A
Thertme Dkeeping routines have been completelyr 0done. Earlier versions of
Tme Door' would have problems when thenime DLeftrwould get larger than 1000
minutes. That problem is fixed.
A
Fixed several minor visual errr's inTthertransfer section.
A
Several other minor bug fixes and changes have been made.
A
3.01 10/01/91
A
Minor release. Conversion from BTIMEDwas messed up. If yourused BTIMED
conversion, yourmust reset nllCoverrides by using thenClear Overrides
option on thensysop menu (TDSYSOP).
A
Two new l/ eing options have been added to therList users option in TDSYSOP.
Theyrare

4)rList users with overrides. This option l/ es all users who have overrides.
5)rList users with prizes. This option l/ es users with ime DPrizes andTther
amount ofTthose prizes. R0member, youran ngive prizes if yourare not  04/ elfed
but those prizes will only berawarded on  04/ elfed systems.
A
Fixed aTbug thatrwould tell users thatrthey had thenwrong answer in Trivia
Challenge eve nwhen they had got the question right. Thertme Dwould berawarded
correcolyrno matter whatrtheruser was told.  This made some sysopsnthink that
users were getting timerfor incorreco answers andTsome users think that
they were incorrecolyrbeing penalized for correco answers. This one was a
tough bug to find...

A
Coming Soon!!

APo elfo(tentativelyrnamed) - Theniop Ten Message Po eing companion to Tme Door'.
A

3.00 07/30/91
A
This is thenfirstr 0leaserofTime Door' for Wildcat! 3.0. Hopefully all then
bugs have been found inTtherbeta test period but expeco to see a ime Door'
3.01 inTthervery near future.
A
Newrin this release...
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o Support for Wildcat! 3.0. This version DOES NOT supportrWildcat! 2.X.
o SETUPaprogram completelyr 0written with better help andTmouseTsupport.
o New security profiles thatrallow yourto set l/mits for each Wildcat
  security profile if yourwish.
AonUser overrides thatrgive yourtherability to set some l/mits on a user by
   user basis. This is great for rewarding good users or punishing bad.
   Both the security profiles andTuser overrides mak aime Door' 3.0 eve n
   better for pay systems where yourwant to entice users to  04/ elf!
AonCommand ine aoptions have changed in order to allowrfor a single batch
   file for multinode systems (if a single node home direcory │is used).
AonA STRUCTURE CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE IN THErTIME.DAT FILE. A CONVERSION TO
   THErTIMErDOOR 3.0 FORMAT IS REQUIRED. PLEASE SEE THErFILE, UPGRADE.DOC FOR
   MORE INFORAMION: N: UPGRADING TOrTIMErDOOR 3.0.
A
Re4/ elfed User Changes:
AonThertrivia editorohas been  0written to add mouseTsupport and to changen
   windw r outines. 2.X versions of thertriva editoroshould owt be used. The
   original versions of thertrivia editoroan nstill be used BUT yourwon't ben
   able to add user supplied questions without ther3.0 version ofTthertrivia
   editor. Tonget this fil , cnllCrown │*roel BBS at 813-676-7549.
AonUsers an now radd trivia questions to you' database.nThertrivia editorois
  required to merge these questions.
A
1.5 06/23/90
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FirstrRenlly Stable Release.
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1.0 June 6, 1990
A
Firstrpublic release.
A