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- A M O E B A W A R S by Benjamin Kuo Silver Yucca Software
- documentation 3419 East 7590 South
- version 4.12 07/12/92 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121
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- INTRODUCTION:
- Welcome to AmoebaWars!, an exciting online application for your Red
- Ryder Host, WWIV, or Mansion bulletin board system. In AmoebaWars,
- your users can compete against others in propagating electronic
- amoebas by placing them on a 10x50 grid. This application is designed
- to make maintenance easy, automatic, and be as easy on the sysop as
- possible.
-
- INSTALLATION:
- The steps to installation are simple. Follow the steps outlined below:
- • Using the New Folder menu choice in the Finder, or an equivalent,
- create a folder for the AmoebaWars support files, which include
- AmoebaWars Help, AmoebaWars Welcome, and (if you are a registered
- user) AmoebaWars Register.
- • Copy the AmoebaWars application to the same folder as your
- bulletin board.
- • In your host bbs application, set up a menu choice where you want
- to run an external application, in this case AmoebaWars. In Red
- Ryder Host this is done with MenuEdit (for more in-detail help,
- please refer to your Host manual). In Mansion, this is done
- through the built-in menu editor. In the WWIV system, pressing
- the proper key while waiting for a call will bring you to the
- external application setup.
- • Run your bulletin board, and launch AmoebaWars. This will allow
- you to enter the correct pathnames via a dialog box, as well as
- giving you the option of a log file or no log file (marking when
- people have entered or exited AmoebaWars). Setup and running the
- application work ONLY if you launch from your bulletin board
- application, otherwise AmoebaWars does not find the "Launch BBS"
- or corresponding file (depending on which bbs program you are
- using) that it requires to work correctly. If you need to re-
- configure the AmoebaWars data after moving your bbs application or
- the folders, it is easiest to open your System Folder and drag
- the "AmoebaWars Options" file to the trash.
- • Quit from AmoebaWars, and your bulletin board will now be able to
- run the external door. OTHER INFO:
- If you are running under multifinder, select the "No Local Echo" in the
- sysop menus, and the window will not appear.
-
- The program creates a "AmoebaWars Bulletin" text file which you can use
- as a routinely updated text file for display in Red Ryder Host, WWIV,
- or Mansion as a standard text file. It exists in the AmoebaWars path
- you have designated. The other files that AmoebaWars creates are:
- AmoebaWars Scores; AmoebaWars Options; AmoebaWars Register; AmoebaWars
- Data; AmoebaWars Help; AmoebaWars Welcome; and AmoebaWars Board.
-
- This version adds the option of entering an alias for use in the game.
- Users are prompted when they first enter to type in an alias, which
- can be up to 32 characters.
-
- A maximum of 15 people can play AmoebaWars at a time. There is a
- B)rowse option which allows users to simply keep up-to-date on the game
- or see what the game is like through entry into the door.
-
- You MUST destroy the AmoebaWars Data and AmoebaWars Board files if you
- are running any other version of AmoebaWars. The added alias feature
- makes the old files outdated. If you REALLY need to have the old files
- converted, please let me know and I'll make a conversion program.
-
- BUG FIX AND ADDITION HISTORY:
- 03/15/89 Bug fixed which tried to sublaunch WWIV under MultiFinder--
- even through it was running under the normal Finder. This
- would cause a system bomb or crash when you exited WWIV to
- the Finder for system maintenance, etc.
- 03/15/89 Alias option added to user interface, in response to Mansion
- BBS Sysops' comments.
- 04/14/89 Finally! Found the data warping routines! This should be it,
- and now you can stop yelling at me...
- 06/26/89 This is an attempted version to fix WWIV incompatibility
- problems and bombs.
- 12/27/91 Patched code to work under System 7.
- 07/12/92 Added Second Sight direct-LaunchSS option in dialogs.
- Also fixed refusal to recognize Register files problem.
-
- SHAREWARE FEES:
- As a reminder, THIS IS SHAREWARE. I know how you don't like to spend
- too much money running an expensive phone line, board software, and
- occupying a mac all day, but I consider bulletin board sysops to be of
- a higher nature than most users. Which means (if you haven't already)
- you will find it in your hearts to send me (Benjamin Kuo, write that
- name on the check, please), a lousy $15 for which you will receive a
- disk in the mail with the latest version.
-
- The author reserves all rights to the program. Local
- bulletin boards may distribute this program with the documentation, in
- StuffIt format, freely, providing that they do not gain any renumeration
- besides the operating costs. This program may not be distributed with any
- commercial software without the author's written permission. User groups
- are free to distribute the program in monthly disks and to include the
- program on any CD-ROM (such as BMUG's PD-ROM) or public domain library,
- as long as there is no charge beyond costs of media. Public domain
- distribution companies, including EDUCOMP, PD•EXCHANGE, and so-called
- "National User Groups" MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE or SELL this program in any way,
- without the express written permission of the author.
-