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- Shift Zone (V. 2.0a)
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- Written by Mike Snyder
- (C) 1995-1996 by N-E-Ware
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- This game is Shareware... if you plan to
- continue using it, you are required to
- Register it for $10. More options are
- available when registered. Use REGISTER.TXT
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- Find the Latest Version of Shift Zone From
- The Rolling Eye BBS: 316-733-6365 (Sysop: Mike Snyder)
- Danger Zone BBS 405-332-4059 (Sysop: Robert Graham)
- Fidonet 1:3806/11 Magic Name "SZONE" (Sysop: Robert Graham)
- FTP: ftp.europa.com /outgoing/DOORS/N-E-WARE
- FTP: ftp.ldl.net /pub/bbs_doors/N-E-WARE
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- SETTING UP SHIFT ZONE:
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- Welcome to a very challenging game of puzzles, designed for online play over
- a BBS, or in Local Mode.
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- You can quickly get a glimpse of the game by typing SZONE LOCAL at the DOS
- prompt, right after PKUNZIPing this archive. In LOCAL mode, you can see
- all the features, even the register-only features (so you can see what
- advantages your remote users get when you register).
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- To set the game up for play over your BBS, run the INSTALL.EXE program and
- select option (A) to set up Shift Zone for your nodes. By default, Node
- 0 and Node 1 are set up. You can edit and copy this info for any other
- nodes you have. When you are finished, just be sure that your BBS follows
- these generic steps:
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- CD \SZ ;The Shift-Zone directory
- SZONE N%1 ;where %1 = Nodenum such as N0, N1, N2, N3, Etc...
- CD \RENEGADE ;Change back to your BBS directory
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- And that's about it.
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- Shift Zone also includes Time Slicing code for users of Windows, Windows '95,
- and Os2... But they're not the best in the west. Try running without slicing
- and note the results. Slicing mode slows the game down somewhat, especially
- under Os2. Note: If you run DesqView, do NOT use the SLICE parameter! It
- will cause problems... make your computer lock up. So do NOT use SLICE with
- DV. To use Slice (if you find it to be necessary) use "SZONE Nx SLICE" or
- for local Demo-Mode play, "SZONE LOCAL SLICE"
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- SPECIAL THANKS:
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- Yes, her name is scattered throughout screens in the game as the "Dedication."
- I would like to thank my good friend, Anna Kissinger, for inspiring me to
- write a puzzle game. :) In fact, she's just very inspirational in general...
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- Also, thanks to Brad Smith for a little bit of online testing. :)
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- PROBLEMS:
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- If you're having trouble getting Shift Zone to run, PLEASE don't just scrap
- it and give up. Leave me a message or write me a letter, telling about
- your problem, your setup, what kind of BBS software you use, what other
- software (such as DV, QEMM, TAME) you use, and what it is doing, and what
- error it seems to be giving you. I'll do my best to help. But PLEASE make
- sure you read the docs and understand how to set it up. I will NOT be happy
- when the problem turns out to be that you didn't define a setup config for
- the NODE # you are passing to the game... and things like that which if
- you had read the docs, you'd know.
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