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Version 2.40- Supports DOOR32 standard now. - Optimized bar talking procedures. - No longer using DDPLUS. Using g00r00's Door32 Doorkit - No more SIM-BBS.CTL - DOS/Win32 versions Version 2.3 - Finished, I'm done. Enjoy the game. If you enjoy programming and would like to take a look at the source code (Turbo Pascal) please email me, and I will consider selling you a copy. The game is now freeware, have fun. Version 2.1 - Fixed many bugs that I found after swapping to the new doordriver, little things that I missed. Made alot of fixes to the Sim-CFG program. Try it, you'll like it. Also, New with this version, if you have an internet account, I will send you your reg code via internet e-mail. Doing this will save you time, and shipping and handling. ;) Remember, if you find bugs, email me! Version 2.00- It has now officially been over a year since I started programming this game. I started in the shed in my backyard, on a short summer night. My friend was sleeping in the bed behind me and we had talked about writing this game for hours. We wrote this game because at the time, we couldn't find ANY BBS Simulator games.. So I sat down and taught myself to program and walla, here's the game! Anyways, enough with history class. This version will have ALOT of bugs. ;> Just swapped it over from Edoor to DDPlus. I suggest that anyone considering writing a door avoid Edoor. Got alot of complaints of it incorrectly openning ports. So this version should fix all of that. Please report bugs to ZEUS@EXEC.TSCNET.COM Version 1.93- Fixed the main menu, which wasn't displaying correctly on the player's side. Version 1.91- Fixed a major bug with the hard drive size getting swapped with the number of hours of work left to do. Version 1.9 - Main thing, Added sysop definable messages. Now registered sysops can add up to 32,000 messages. I give registered sysops full permission to create MESSAGE.DAT files, and distribute them as alternatives to the standard MESSAGE.DAT for this game. Let's see if you can do better than I can. Also, Changed the commands around, and made a new stats screen. Changed the registration codes to a different format that is easier for my printer. ;> MAJOR NEWS: I finally added dual support for BOTH Renegade (already had it) pipe codes, AND LORD colors, got tired of people trying to use LORD color codes with no success. Players can now change their aliasses. The game no longer screws up player's aliasses if they add color codes to their names. Game now randomly decides how many hours of work and how many messages the player will have each day, Makes it a little nicer. Many other little additions. PLEASE report bugs to me if you find any, I will be reachable through fidonet. Version 1.62- Maintenance Release. Version 1.61- DOH! Gordy French forgot to add a randomize command in his registration routines. It made the game VERY predictable. Sorry, Fixed it though.. Thanks to Linus Hammers for finding that bug. Version 1.6 - Wrote a configuration program, type Sim-Cfg at the dos prompt. Players can now have a seperate alias for the game. Comes in handy on boards that don't pass an alias to the game. Stopped loading the overlays into EMS, was locking some boards (Thanks to "The Gleek" for pointing this out). Cleaned up the mail between players, now you can reply to mail sent to you, and you get 15 lines of mail instead of <GAG> 2. Game no longer asks if you want to network your new machine with the old one if you already bought a network. Player edittor only works with registered sysops. Version 1.5 - Fixed many bugs in the beta. Didn't keep track of them because it was a very close knit Beta test and only the locals got a copy. NEW FEATURE. You can now send mail to other players! This has been needed for a long time, and finally got it added. You can thank my co-programmer, Gordy French for helping with that part. Version 1.4ß- Added Yesterday's news. Added a demonstration of pipe color codes to the instructions. Changed it so that you can network your old system with your new system. This is what I decided to do instead of people selling their old systems, because we all know you don't get jack for your out of date machine, so now you can just network your old system with the new one for an extra $100. Added an extra stat to the main screen to let them know if they have a network or not. Added an option to the backroom menu to let the players shut down their BBS if they decide not to run their BBS anymore. Added an option to quit reading mail, so that they don't get stuck reading all their messages in one sitting. Added about 20-30 more messages to read, some may not be politically correct, oh well! Fixed problems with people using background colors to mess up the scores and the backroom. Added extra help when they hit Instructions, to explain pipe color codes! Finally figured out how to use Overlays, so now half the game loads into upper memory! Whew! Lot's in this version! Enjoy! Version 1.3 - Ooops! Users could buy 700 meg of RAM even if they only had $100, and it would give them $30,000 in the process. Same thing happend when buying nodes. Added "Mini-Stats" when buying certain items. Fixed other bugs also. Added a hidden command, can you find it? Version 1.2ß- Fixed some spelling errors. Made room in the program for future additions. Ooops! Fixed the bug that would kill your BBS after you got a certain number of nodes. You can now view your stats at the store. Completely re-did "Work On BBS" routines. The game is alot larger now. Version 1.1 - The sort procedure was totally messed on some systems. It would spend an hour sorting, and never have done anything. I'm hoping it's fixed, if not, it is now possible for the user to abort the sort. Sorry. Version 1.0 - Wrote the Shareware Version finally. It's got a nice little trick to it. Fixed a potential problem, if the sysop defines ALOT of BBS softwares, or CPU Types, it would have scrolled off the screen, added a pause every 24 lines. Also, Fixed it so the players can't get negative subscribers. Ooops! No more bugs, Ready to ship now! Version 0.9 - New Feature, The sysop can define how many different CPU types, and brands of BBS software there will be, so that it's not limmitted to 10 and 5.. Fixed the scoreboard, so that color codes don't mess up the colors of the rest of the line. Added my Fiance' to the messages, make sure you reply kindly. ;> Replaced the ANSi for the main menu/stats screen. Looks alot better now. Enjoy! Version 0.8 - Lemme see.. Fixed a little problem where I forgot a color code. Heheh, Also made the names in the conversation room uppercase and lower case, to make it look better. When the user chooses a BBS name, it no longer re-does their capitolization for them. Also, putting color codes in the BBS software, CPUNames, or most importantly, their BBS name will no longer screw the borders thanks to some fancy early morning programming on my part. Enjoy! Version 0.7 - Ooops! Found a bug, They could buy thousands of megs of ram on a 286, it wasn't checking their maxram stats. Fix that. IMPORTANT! Run 06to07 to convert the users scores over to the new format. If you don't, YOUR LOSS! I had to do this because there is a new feature now, when you buy more nodes, you have to wait till the next day to have them installed by the phone company, and you have a 1 in 10 chance that they won't be installed. Hehehehe, Installed the Spy feature, that was a nice headache, but it works now. ENJOY! Version 0.6 - Added a really nice Expanding thingy when sorting scores, to let the users know that the board isn't locked. I fixed some minor spelling and grammer errors. It will now announce "Big Buys" in the news, like if they buy the best BBS software, or the best CPU type. I removed a hidden backdoor that gave them more money.. Hehehe, Leftover from preliminary testing on the game. Replaced the crappy news header with a really nice one. Now displays the high scores when you exit. - Next Version will have the ability to spy on other BBS's working. -=-=-=-=-=- End Of Alpha Testing, Now For Beta Testing -=-=-=-=-=- Version 0.5 - Everything is running smoothly tonight. Changed the config file name from Sim-BBS.CTL to Sim-BBS.CFG. Makes more sense that way. Good news! I added the ability to sort the array! It will sort the array before displaying it now. This will put the players with the most subscribers at the top! You wouldn't believe how long I had to fight to get it to work! Enjoy it. Version 0.4 - Ooops! Found a bug, They were supposed to get 20 work hours and 10 messages, not the other way around! Fixed that. Also noticed that it didn't pause after buying BBS software. Fixed. Felt the game needed some human conversation, so I added a conversation room. BTW, The Conversation unit was written by Laforge of CyberLand BBS @ 360-698-5571. Version 0.3 - Ooops! Found a bug, It was saving the ammount of RAM to the Hard Drive size field.. Pissed me off when I spent all my money on a hard drive. ;> hehe. Fixed it. Also added the daily news, and make announcement features. I can't figure out how to sort the high scores yet. I'll get back to it. Version 0.2 - Ooops! Found a bug, It was saving the users into the subscribers field.. Definately an easy way to cheat! Fixed It. Still haven't added more features. Version 0.1 - This is my first Alpha Version, Got all of the major features working. It's been a long night! I'll add more features when I get some sleep.