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- Q-Seven - Version 1.0
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- Copyright 1995 - 1996 SoftNet
- All Rights Reserved
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- Co-Owners' of SoftNet
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- David Smart Peter Kling
- Space Station Info System Technology, Inc.
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- Phone BBS/FAX: 1-508-454-0356 1-407-729-9166
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(1)- March 10, 1996
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- This is a licence agreement between you, the end user, and SoftNet
- Q-Seven, including any Screen, Executable, documentation, etc are the
- property of SoftNet. Please read the terms and conditions of this
- licence agreement carefully before using the software. If you for any
- reason, whatsoever, cannot accept the conditions in this agreement,
- you are not permitted to use Q-Seven.
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- You acknowledge and agree that Q-Seven is a proprietary product of
- SoftNet protected by applicable copyright laws and international treaty
- provisions. You further acknowledge and agree that all rights, title,
- and interest in, and to Q-Seven are and shall remain with SoftNet
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- Q-Seven may be used for a period of thirty (30) days on a trial
- basis to allow you to determine its suitability for your particular
- application. After this period you MUST register Q-Seven, or remove
- it from your system. Registration entitles you to use Q-Seven and
- any future versions of Q-Seven for as long as you wish, subject
- to any special licensing conditions and/or applicable upgrade fees
- attached to future versions.
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- In the event that you are in violation of this licence agreement,
- you agree and accept that SoftNet may cancel your registration and
- any rights to use Q-Seven that you may have. In the case of a dispute
- over the licence agreement, you further agree and accept to fully
- reimburse SoftNet for legal and other expenses resulting from the
- dispute.
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- Q-Seven is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, or
- fitness for a particular purpose, either expressed or implied, all
- of are hereby explicitly disclaimed. SoftNet only guarantees that
- Q-Seven will occupy disk space.
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- SoftNet liability resulting from your use or inability to use
- Q-Seven is limited to the amount that the affected party has paid
- for it, or in the event that Q-Seven was registered with a third
- party for payment to SoftNet, liability is limited to the amount
- that was received by SoftNet from that third party.
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- Neither SoftNet nor any of its employees, agents, or other
- representatives are in any way obligated to provide future versions
- of, or support for, Q-Seven. You may freely distribute and copy
- Q-Seven provided that no fee is charged and the Q-Seven distribution
- archive contains unmodified copies of the original files as produced
- by SoftNet Pay Bulletin Board Systems may, however, charge their
- normal fee provided that no additional charge for Q-Seven is levied
- No part of Q-Seven may be modified, altered, reverse engineered,
- sold, or distributed in any form what so ever which would involve
- some sort of trade without prior written permission from SoftNet
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(2)- March 10, 1996
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- │░░░░░░ INTRODUCTION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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- Q-Seven is an online ANSI graphics "Over and Under" game
- for QuickBBS and RemoteAccess BBS.
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- This version supports QuickBBS V2.80, and RemoteAccess V1.1x,
- and 2.xx
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- It allows users to gamble their time remaining while online.
- The program is pretty straight forward and and easy to install.
- It does require ANSI graphics to be turned ON by the user and does
- require the DOS ANSI.SYS driver to be installed on the host computer.
- If a caller tries to run Q-Seven and does not have graphics turned
- on, the program will notify the user that graphics are required. It
- will then return control to the BBS.
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- Q-Seven allows the BBS Sysop to define the maximum number of
- turns allowed per user, per day as well as the maximum number of
- minutes a user may accumulate while in the game. Once a user has
- reached a maximum number of accumulative minutes, the user is not
- allowed to access the game until the next day. Once a user has
- reached the maximum number of turns per day Q-Seven will not allow
- the user to take any more turns.
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(3)- March 10, 1996
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- Q-Seven is easy to install. A type 7 menu entry may be used,
- as follows:
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- Optional Data : D:\BBS\DOORS\Q7\QSEVEN.EXE 2 100 100 /N*N
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- Commandline Parameters:
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- QSEVEN <coin_value> <max_mins> <max_turns> [/Bbank_path] [/Wn] [/Nn]
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- Where - Coin_value is a number from 1 to 10. This tells Q-Seven
- the value of a coin in minutes. For example, if you enter
- a value of 2, each coin will have a value of 2 minutes.
- I have found that a value of 2 works well.
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- - Max_mins is a number from 1 to 1000. This tells Q-Seven
- the maximum number of minutes a user can win while in the
- program. This includes the user's current time plus any
- winnings accumulated during play. If a user meets or exceeds
- this number, the user will be congratulated and politely asked
- to try again tomorrow. The user will not be allowed access to
- Q-Seven until the next day.
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- NOTE: This number will include the time the user already has.
- If this was set to 100 and the user had 99 minutes when he
- entered the program, he would be allowed to win only one minute.
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- - Max_turns is a number from 1 to 1000. This tells Q-Seven
- the maximum number of turns a player may take per day. If
- this number is reached, the user will not be allowed to take
- any more turns.
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(4)- March 10, 1996
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- Installation Continued.
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- - /B tells Q-Seven that you wish to use time banking supprt.
- What this means is that if a player is in Q-Seven and wins
- an amount of time that would overstep a system event, Q-Seven
- will create a file called THEBANK.EXT. This file would then
- contain the user's name and the number of minutes to
- automatically deposit in the user's time bank account.
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- For example, if there is a system event in 60 minutes and the
- player wins 80 minutes Q-Seven will give the player 60 minutes
- of winnings and automatically bank the rest (20 minutes).
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- You may also supply a path to where THEBANK.EXT file will be
- created. For example, /Bc:\bbs would cause THEBANK.EXT
- file to be created in the BBS directory on drive C:. Note that
- there is no space between the /B and the path.
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- See your Time Bank utility documentation to see if it supports
- this file or download the latest version of RATS ( RATS300.ZIP )
- from any SoftNet Support site!
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- - /W tells Q-Seven the maximum number of coins a player may
- wager per turn. This may be a value from 1 to 999 and will
- default to 10 if not specified.
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- - /Nn allows you to pass the node number to QSeven. This is used
- for the logfiles, and the Status Bar on the screen.
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(5)- March 10, 1996
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- The Q-Seven archive comes with a few files needed by the program.
- You can run Q-Seven from any directory. It looks for the ExitInfo.BBS
- and the Dorinfo1.Def in the current directory, and reads all of its
- own files from the directory containing the .EXE file.
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- The files that come with the archive are:
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- QSEVEN.EXE This is the program
- QSEVEN.ANS This is the formatted graphic used
- QSEVEN.ASC This is the non-color graphic used
- QSEVEN.HLP This is a formatted help file
- QSEVEN.DOC This document
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- NOTE: Do not edit or change the contents of QSEVEN.ANS, QSEVEN.ASC
- or QSEVEN.HLP. These files are formatted specifically for the
- program.
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- In addition to these files, Q-Seven also creates and maintains
- some files it needs to operate. These are:
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- QSEVEN.DTE Julian date file. Erase this file if
- you need to reset the game that day.
- QSEVEN.USR List of users who have reached a daily
- limit and are not allowed to play again
- that day.
- QSEVEN.TRN This keeps track of the user turn counts
- for the day.
- QSEVEN.LOG This is the player log. It is a circular
- text file which tracks the last 15 players
- and how they did.
- THEBANK.EXT External time bank utility file. This
- file is created and maintained by Q-Seven
- and is read by Rats v1.01 and later.
- Do not delete this file. The Bank will
- delete it each time it has read it.
- Q7_##.ERR Reference to any run time errors that
- might occur. ## is replaced by the node
- number.
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(6)- March 10, 1996
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- When The Bank is run and locates THEBANK.EXT, it will read it
- through to the end of the file updating or adding user accounts as
- needed. The format of THEBANK.EXT is: User Name:Time
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- For example, if JOHN DOE wins 80 minutes and Q-Seven deposits
- 20 minutes into his account, the following line will be appended
- to THEBANK.EXT:
- JOHN DOE:20
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- A user's name can appear in this file more than once. The Bank
- will handle it properly. For more details, see Rats 1.01 or later.
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- Q-Seven also allows the Sysop to plug his/her BBS by displaying
- a file called QSEVEN.TXT, if it exists. So, if there's a message
- you'd like to display before Q-Seven draws it's screen, just create
- an ASCII text file called QSEVEN.TXT and put it in the same directory
- as Q-Seven and it will be displayed.
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- Sysop function keys:
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- [ALT]-[C] : Chat with word wrap.
- [ESC] to quit chat.
- [ALT]-[H] : Hang up on user.
- [ALT]-[J] : Jump to DOS.
- [ALT]-[T] : Unconditionally return user to BBS.
- Up Arrow : Increase users time by 2 minutes.
- Down Arrow : Decrease users time by 2 minutes.
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- Q-Seven - User documentation -(7)- March 10, 1996
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