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- If you'd like to see Inter-BBS BRE on your system, but are not a member of
- Fido (or another) Net, then you may wish to try this out:
-
- BRE supports connecting 2 (or more with lots of work) games into an "Inter-BBS"
- Game so your players can play on both games and get daily returns from each
- BBS allowing your players to, in essence, play 2 empires out of a total 50.
-
- If you'd like to do this, set up two BRE directories (examples use C:\BRE\1 and
- C:\BRE\2) and set up PLANDATA.BBS files like this: (see PLANDATA.SAM for
- details)
-
- C:\BRE\1\PLANDATA.BBS: C:\BRE\2\PLANDATA.BBS:
- Mehul Patel Mehul Patel
- The Solar Realm #1 The Solar Realm #2
- 1/1 1/2
- C:\BRE\1\FILES C:\BRE\2\FILES
- C:\BRE\NETMAIL C:\BRE\NETMAIL
- 1 1
-
- And Create a Nodelist called BRNODES.DAT in both BRE directories such as:
- (See NODEFORM.INF for details)
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- 1
- The Solar Realm #1
- 1/1
- Houston
- TX
- USA
-
- 2
- The Solar Realm #2
- 1/2
- Houston
- TX
- USA
-
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-
- Then, create C:\BRE\1\FILES, C:\BRE\2\FILES, and C:\BRE\NETMAIL directories
- as replacements for the Fidonet Mailer's directories. BRE will create two
- more directories, C:\BRE\1\OUTBOUND and C:\BRE\2\OUTBOUND itself. BRE can
- be run as a normal game from the BBS (have 2 games available - 1 for each
- "BBS"). In your BBS's daily Maintainence, add the following:
-
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- C:
- CD \BRE
- CD 1
- BRE PLANETARY
- CD ..\2
- BRE PLANETARY
- CD ..\1
- COPY OUTBOUND\*.* ..\2\FILES } Can be replaced with MOVE
- DEL OUTBOUND\0*.* } if you have it
- CD ..\2
- COPY OUTBOUND\*.* ..\1\FILES
- DEL OUTBOUND\0*.*
- CD ..
- DEL NETMAIL\*.MSG
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-
- That process is equivalent to sending stuff to and receiving stuff from
- another BBS and processing it. If you would like a faster game (ie, forces
- return the next day), run the above 3 times. 2 times will speed it up but
- not to instant returns. You can determine how quickly you would like your
- game to go inter-game wise.
-
-
- For more than 2 BBS's, the process is a little bit different. (Up to 9 BBSs)
-
- If you have 4DOS, do as above for the various Game setups, and add them all
- to the BRNODES.DAT, but change your daily maintainence to the following:
-
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- CDD C:\BRE
- FOR %B IN (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO (CDD C:\BRE\%B\OUTBOUND^FOR %A IN (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO MOVE xxxB0%B0%A.* C:\BRE\%A\FILES)
- CDD C:\BRE
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-
- For this to work, all of your sub-directories MUST be named 1 2 3 4 etc.
-
- Replace the xxx with the League number (3 digits, ie "004") of your game.
-