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- Franchise Basketball v1.xx
- By: Scott K. Snella
- Setup and Installation
-
- This document provides sysops with single node, BBS systems quick setup
- instructions. If you have difficulties getting the game to run or have
- a multiline system, please refer to the SYSOP.DOC file for information on
- using the configuration file option.
-
- NOTE: There are two command line parameters for Franchise Basketball, an upper
- or lower case L. If you'd like to try the game quick,
- follow steps 1-5 below, and then type FBASKET L from the Franchise
- Basketball Directory, and an optional configuration file name...
- see SYSOP.DOC for more details.
-
- INSTALLATION STEPS
-
- 1. Unzip Franchise Basketball Archive to its own directory.
- (FBB uses many data files to allow for configuration, it is
- highly recommended that you place the game in it's own directory)
- 2. Change to the directory containing Franchise Basketball (FBB) and type
- FINIT. This will run the initialization program. Answer YES to
- the question, "Do you wish to create a league". For first time
- installs, you will be prompted for some information, including
- the registration number, follow the instructions and answer the
- questions.
- 3. You will be prompted for several options, including the number of
- conferences, divisions, and teams. Each conference has as many
- divisions as you enter, and each division has as many teams as
- you specify, So the number of teams in the entire game will be...
- Conferences * Divisions * Teams. The password toggle option
- should be enabled on LAN's but not on BBS's, and the perpetual
- season option will only take effect in registered versions. When
- you are finished type "Q" to Quit.
- 4. Now you have to create a batch file to run the game from the BBS.
- FBB supports many major BBS dropfiles, and all you have to do is copy
- your dropfile to the FBB directory before running the program.
- The main EXE file is called FBASKET.EXE (with one command line
- parameter, an "L" or "l"). Here is a sample batch file.
-
- @ECHO OFF
- COPY C:\BBS\DORINFO1.DEF C:\FBB\DORINFO1.DEF
- C:
- CD\FBB
- FBASKET
- DEL DORINFO1.DEF
- CD\BBS
- EXIT
-
- If you are running on a LAN, please refer to LANSETUP.DOC, for
- step 6.
-
- 5. Finally, you must run the program called MAINT.EXE once per day (or
- if you wish the season to move faster, more than once). Running
- MAINT.EXE will create the schedule, or play games if the league
- is full, otherwise it will wait until all teams have been filled.
- Just put the MAINT.EXE program in your nightly events, this plays
- games and creates many of the data files FBB needs. Until the
- season actually begins play, several of the options (especially
- in the Gazette Sports Page) will not seem to work.
-
- 6. FBB creates two score files, FBBSCORE.ANS and FBBSCORE.ASC. Both
- contain last evenings game scores. The first is in ANSI format
- and the second, ASCII format. Both are located in the FBB
- directory and can be copied, moved or displayed from that location
- to users during login. If not all of the teams are filled, the
- score file acts as an ad for users to join.
-
- 7. You may want to make the file INSTR.DOC available for download. It
- is a brief text file explaining the game, and detailing some
- strategies for playing.
-
- That's it! Just create a dropfile, and run this batch file, and
- FBB should run fine.
-
- Thanks for playing Franchise Basketball...
-
- Franchise Basketball (C) 1995 SnellaSoft
-