home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
- Dominion Software Designers
-
- Present
-
- Black Jack V1.1
-
- (c) Copyright 1993, All Rights Reserved
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- DSD Black Jack is a BBS door for IBM, RemoteAccess Compatible BBS systems.
- With DSD Black Jack users will be able to wager their online time on
- games of Black Jack, and compete with other users for the top scores.
-
- DSD Black Jack is Multi-Node aware (as long as SHARE.EXE is loaded) and
- requires a FOSSIL communication driver for easy COMM port handling.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- USE OF DSD BLACK JACK IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. DOMINION SOFTWARE
- DESIGNERS WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE TO HARDWARE
- OR SOFTWARE CAUSED BY OUR SOFTWARE.
-
- With that said, we have endeavoured to ensure that our software works as
- well as it can with testing both on our BBS and those of our Beta testers.
- If however you do find any bugs, or problems with the software please
- notify us so as we may fix the problem.
-
-
- SHAREWARE
- ~~~~~~~~~
-
- DSD Black Jack is shareware and we ask that you pay a small fee for
- the software. As an incentive to encourage you to register there are
- certain UNREGISTERED features in the software. Please read the section
- on registering advantages later.
-
- The Unregistered version of DSD Black Jack may be freely distributed (and
- please do!), as long as all the files, (including this documentation) are
- unaltered and kept together.
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- To run DSD Black Jack you will require -
-
- IBM / MS-DOS compatible computer.
- RemoteAccess or compatible BBS software that creates the DORINFO and
- EXITINFO type bbs drop files.
- FOSSIL communication driver of some kind, (e.g. BNU by David Nugent)
- SHARE.EXE loaded in your system (for multi-line use).
-
-
- SETTING UP
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- DSD Black Jack is rather easy to set up.
-
- Firstly it is recommended you place the contents of the DSD Black Jack
- archive in their own directory (DSD-BJ.EXE, DSD-BJ.DOC, DSD-BJ.CFG).
-
- Secondly you will need to edit the DSD-BJ.CFG file to your own need.
-
- The .CFG file is a text file with each configuration item consisting
- of 1 line of text. Each line of text has the form :-
-
- KEYWORD parameter
-
- The description of all the KEYWORDS and parameters are contained in the
- sample config file (DSD-BJ.CFG), you should read through that now, and
- edit the paramaters to suit your system.
-
- Once you have edited your config files you will then need to set up
- your BBS program to run DSD Black Jack.
-
- This can be done easily in RemoteAccess using a Type 7 door exit
- like this
-
- *C *M /C DSD-BJ.EXE
-
- Nothing more is required on a simple system.
-
-
- SETTING UP FOR MULTI-NODE / MULTI-GAME
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you are running a Multi-Node BBS system, or you wish to run multiple
- games of DSD Black Jack (with different betting levels, etc) then all that
- is required is that you edit multiple .CFG files and when you run DSD
- Black Jack you specify which config file to use.
-
- For a Multi-Node System make a copy of the .CFG file, one for each node.
- Edit the DORINFO/EXITINFO paths in each file to go to each directory of
- your BBS. For example, here are the first two lines of my config files.
-
- DSD-BJ.001
-
- DORINFO_FILE C:\BBS\NODE1\DORINFO1.DEF
- EXITINFO_FILE C:\BBS\NODE1\EXITINFO.BBS
-
- DSD-BJ.002
-
- DORINFO_FILE C:\BBS\NODE2\DORINFO1.DEF
- EXITINFO_FILE C:\BBS\NODE2\EXITINFO.BBS
-
- etc, then when it comes to running DSD Black Jack from the BBS I tell
- it which data file to use,
-
- DSD-BJ.EXE <config file>
- e.g. for line 2 - DSD-BJ.EXE DSD-BJ.002
-
- To set up multiple games, do the same as above, but this time change the
- Datafile Path, Scorefiles, and any of the MIN/MAX settings. When you
- change between the 2 config files, users will be playing 2 different games.
-
-
- SYSOP KEYS
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- DSD Black Jack supports some special sysop keys, those being
-
- ALT-K - Kick User out of DSD Black Jack.
- ALT-C - Chat with the user.
- Up Arrow - Increase users time by 1 minute.
- Down Arrow - Decrease users time by 1 minute.
- Left Arrow - Decrease users time by 10 minutes.
- Right Aroww - Increase users time by 10 minutes.
-
-
- BLACK JACK
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The instructions on how to play Black Jack are contained in the game. I
- have tried to follow the rules of my local Casino closely and have only
- erred on one thing, that is that at the casino you can Split 2 times,
- where as in DSD Black Jack you may split only once.
-
- Another point that has been raised is that in most Black Jack games there
- is a '5 Under' rule that says if you get 5 cards and your score is under
- 21 you beat anything but BlackJack. This was not implemented as it is
- not implemented at the Casino as the rule is ment for 5-6 players playing
- with 1 deck of cards, not 2 players.
-
-
- REGISTRATION ADVANTAGES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you register DSD Black Jack the word UNREGISTERED will be replaced
- with your BBS name in many positions throughout the game. Your players
- will not also be restricted to 25 games per session in the door, so they
- can play uninterrupted for as long as they like and accumulate higher scores
- or higher losses! You will also notice that after your users have played
- 400 hands in one day, they will no longer be disallowed to play Black Jack.
-
- Another advantage to registering DSD Black Jack is that it is part of
- The Dominion Casino. That means that by registering DSD Black Jack not
- only will your KEYFILE work with all future versions of DSD Black Jack it
- will work with all future versions of Dominion Casino doors. DSD Poker and
- DSD Keno are also available, and more doors will be added to the set soon.
-
- To register DSD Black Jack read the REGISTER.FRM for all the information.
-
-
- AUTHOR CONTACTS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you would like to make any suggestions, complaints, just say hello,
- send us a postcard, or contact us for any other reason, here is our
- info!
-
- Dominion Software Designers Are -
-
- Craig Westbury, Steve Hunter, David Neighbour, James Nobes.
-
- Our Postal Address Is -
-
- PO Box 664, BRIGHTON, SA, 5048, AUSTRALIA.
-
- Our BBS Is -
-
- The Dominion Multi-Line - +61-8-377-1984, +61-8-377-1983 (14400)
- Fidonet - 3:800/863, 3:800/864
- WorldNet - 61:9000/517
-
- Our Internet Email At -
-
- cjwestbu@cs.adelaide.edu.au
- craig@smug.student.adelaide.edu.au