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- This is dopewars 1.5.1, a game simulating the life of a drug dealer in
- New York. The aim of the game is to make lots and lots of money...
- unfortunately, you start the game with a hefty debt, accumulating interest,
- and the cops take a rather dim view of drug dealing...
-
- These are brief instructions; see the HTML documentation for full information.
-
- dopewars 1.5.1 servers should handle clients as old as version 1.4.3 with
- hardly any visible problems (the reverse is also true). However, it is
- recommended that both clients and servers are upgraded to 1.5.1!
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Either...
-
- 1. Get the relevant RPM from http://dopewars.sourceforge.net/
-
- Or...
-
- 2. Get the tarball dopewars-1.5.1.tar.gz from the same URL
- Extract it via. tar -xvzf dopewars-1.5.1.tar.gz
- Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file in the newly-created
- dopewars-1.5.1 directory
-
- Once you're done, you can safely delete the RPM, tarball and dopewars
- directory. The dopewars binary is all you need!
-
- dopewars stores its high score files by default in /usr/share/dopewars.sco
- This will be created by make install or by RPM installation. A different high
- score file can be selected with the -f switch.
-
- WIN32 INSTALLATION
-
- dopewars now compiles as a console application under Win32 (Windows 95,98,NT).
- Almost all functionality of the standard Unix binary is retained; for example,
- all of the same command line switches are supported, and configuration files
- are still looked for in $HOME/.dopewars (so set the environment variable HOME
- to something sensible if it is not set and you want to use this feature).
-
- The easiest way to install the Win32 version is to download the precompiled
- binary. The supplied configure script, however, should build the binary
- correctly under Cygwin (see the INSTALL file for details).
-
- USAGE
-
- dopewars has built-in client-server support for multi-player games. For a
- full list of options configurable on the command line, run dopewars with
- the -h switch.
-
- dopewars -a
- This is "antique" dopewars; it tries to keep to the original dopewars, based
- on the "Drug Wars" game by John E. Dell, as closely as possible.
-
- dopewars
- By default, dopewars supports multi-player games. On starting a game, the
- program will attempt to connect to a dopewars server so that players can send
- messages back and forth, and shoot each other if they really want to...
-
- dopewars -s
- Starts a dopewars server. By default this is an interactive server; if you
- want to put it in the background, then run it as
- "dopewars -s < /dev/null > /dev/null &" or similar.
-
- dopewars -c
- Create and run a computer dopewars player. This will attempt to connect
- to a dopewars server, and if this succeeds, it will then participate in
- multi-player dopewars games. At the moment, it does next to nothing, however!
-
- CONFIGURATION
-
- Most of the dopewars defaults (for example, the location of the high score file,
- the port and server to connect to, the names of the drugs and guns, etc.) can be
- configured by adding suitable entries to the dopewars configuration file. The
- global file /etc/dopewars is read first, and can then be overridden by the local
- settings in ~/.dopewars. All of the settings here can also be set on the command
- line of an interactive dopewars server when no players are logged on. See the
- file "example-cfg" for an example configuration file, and for a brief
- explanation of each option, type "help" in an interactive server.
-
- PLAYING
-
- dopewars is supposed to be fairly self-explanatory. You should be able to
- pick the basics up fairly quickly, but still be discovering subtleties for
- _ages_ ;) If you're _really_ stuck, send me an email. I might even answer it!
-
- Clue: buy drugs when they're cheap, sell them when they're expensive. The Bronx
- and Ghetto are "special" locations. Anything more would spoil the fun. ;)
-
- BUGS
-
- Well, there are bound to be lots. Let me know if you find any, and I'll see
- if I can fix 'em... of course, a working patch would be even nicer! ;)
-
- LICENCE
-
- dopewars is released under the GNU General Public License; see the text file
- LICENCE for further information. dopewars is copyright (C) Ben Webb 1998-2001.
- The dopewars icons are copyright (C) Ocelot Mantis 2001.
-
- SUPPORT
-
- dopewars is written and maintained by Ben Webb <ben@bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk>
- Enquiries about dopewars may be sent to this address (keep them sensible
- please ;) Bug fixes and reports, improvements and patches are also welcomed.
-