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- Motor City Software
- Thinker Version 2.0
- Copyright 1991-1995 by McSoft Corp.
- All rights reserved
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- This is a licence agreement between you, the end user, and McSoft Corp.
- This Software package, including any documentation etc are the property
- of McSoft Corp. 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 this Package.
-
- You acknowledge and agree that Thinker is a proprietary product of McSoft
- Corp. protected by applicable copyright laws and international treaty
- provisions. You further acknowledge and agree that all rights, title,
- and interest in and to this software are and shall remain with McSoft
- Corp.
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- This Software may be used for a period of sixty (60) days on a trial
- basis to allow you to determine its suitability for your particular
- application. After this period you MUST register Thinker, or remove it
- from your system.
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- Registration entitles you to use Thinker and any future versions of Thinker
- for as long as you wish, subject to any special licensing conditions
- and/or applicable upgrade fees attached to future versions.
-
- In the event that you are in violation of this licence agreement, you
- agree and accept that Mcsoft Corp. may cancel your registration and any
- rights to use Thinker that you may have. In the case of a dispute over the
- licence agreement, you further agree and accept to fully reimburse McSoft
- Corp. for legal and other expenses resulting from the dispute.
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- Thinker 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. McSoft Corp. only guarantees that Thinker will
- occupy disk space.
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- McSoft Corp's liability resulting from your use or inability to use Thinker
- is limited to the amount that the affected party has paid for it or in the
- event that Thinker was registered with a third party for payment to McSoft
- Corp. liability is limited to the amount that was received by McSoft Corp.
- from that third party.
-
- Neither McSoft Corp. nor any of its employees, agents, or other represent-
- atives are in any way obligated to provide future versions of, or support
- for, Thinker.
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- You may freely distribute and copy Thinker provided that no fee is charged
- and the distribution archive contains unmodified copies of the original
- files as produced by McSoft Corp. Pay Bulletin Board Systems may, however,
- charge their normal fee provided that no additional charge for Thinker
- is levied. No part of Thinker may be modified, altered, reverse engineered,
- sold, or distributed in any form whatsoever which would involve some sort
- of trade without prior written permission from McSoft Corp.
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- See REGISTER.ARJ for registration forms.
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- │░░░░░░ INTRODUCTION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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- Thinker is a fun, simple game which challenges you to achieve the highest
- monthly score possible. This game is similar to the game of "Concentration"
- as seen on television.
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- The object of the game is to be the highest scoring player at the end
- of the month. This is accomplished by matching pairs of cards on a
- 4 X 13-card grid.
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- You will start with 0 points at the beginning of each month. When you
- enter the game, the game board is drawn on your screen. The game board
- consists of header information, and a 4 X 13 grid which holds 52 playing
- cards.
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- To begin a game, select <P>lay. A 52-card deck is then shuffled and
- dealt. You will also notice some information in the upper-right corner
- of your screen, such as Maximum Misses and your Miss Count.
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- The object of game play is to select pairs of matching cards until the
- game board is cleared. Once selected, each card is turned face-up. If the
- two cards you select match, you gain 100 points and the cards are cleared
- from the board. If you manage to clear the entire board, you will be
- awarded a bonus of 5,000 points.
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- To select cards, make sure that your NUM LOCK is turned on. Then, using
- the numeric keypad, move the cursor left, right, up or down until the
- cursor is directly above the card you wish to select. Then press <ENTER>
- to select that card.
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- Each time you select two cards that do NOT match, your Miss Count is
- incremented by 1. You may accumulate a maximum of 5 consecutive misses
- before the game is ended. Each time you select a matching pair of cards,
- your Miss Count is reset to 0.
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- At the end of each month, play is ended and the top-three scorers for the
- month are displayed to players during the following month. The player
- file is removed and the game starts over.
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- │░░░░░░ INSTALLATION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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- Thinker runs great as a type 7 door on RemoteAccess and QuickBBS. Thinker
- requires either a Dorinfo1.Def or a DOOR.SYS drop file created by your bbs.
- Thinker also requires a Fossil Driver to be loaded. All file I/O uses record
- locking and this door will run fine on two nodes simultaneously.
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- Command Line Parameters:
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- - /T# The maximum number of games a player may play per day. This should be
- a value between 1 and 100. If it's not, it will default to 2.
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- - /M# The maximum number of misses in a row before the user is beaten. This
- should be a value between 1 and 10. If it's not, it will default to 5.
-
- - /D tells Thinker to use a DOOR.SYS file rather than Dorinfo1.def
-
- - /N# will specify the node number, # is the node number. Default = 1
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- Examples:
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- THINKER.EXE /T7 7 rounds per day.
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- THINKER.EXE /N1 Running on node 1
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- THINKER.EXE 5 rounds per day (default).
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- THINKER.EXE /T10 /D 10 games per day.
- Use DOOR.SYS instead of DORINFO1.DEF.
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- THINKER.EXE /T10 /M3 /N2 /D 10 Games per day
- 3 misses allowed in a row
- Running on node 2
- Use door.sys
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- Thinker can be run in the BBS system directory or in a directory of its own.
-
- Here is an example type 7 menu command
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- D:\BBS\DOORS\THINKER\THINKER.EXE /T15 /M6 /N*N
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- That's all there is to installing the Thinker door. There is no setup program
- needed.
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- Thinker will read and write its own files in the same directory containing the
- THINKER.EXE file, and read the dorinfo1.def or door.sys file from the current
- directory.
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- If you have any problems at all, please contact one of our worldwide support
- sites listed in SUPPORT.DOC
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- The following is a list of files related to the operation of this program.
- It is noted whether or not the file is absolutely required in order for the
- program to run.
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- Filename Required Description
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- THINKER.EXE Yes The main progam executable.
- THINKER.ANS Yes The game board graphic. (color graphics)
- THINKER.ASC Yes The game board graphic (mono graphics)
- MCT.ANS Yes The Motor City Thinker graphic (color graphics).
- MCT.ASC Yes The Motor City Thinker graphic (mono graphics).
- THINKER.HLP Yes Help file.
- THINKER.DOC No This documentation.
- THINKER.DTE No This is a date file. This is used to determine
- when the end of month has been reached.
- THINKER.HSC No This file contains the last month's high scorer
- statistics.
- THINKER.DAT No This is the player data file. If it does not
- exist, it will be created.
- THINK##.LOG No This file is created if Thinker encounters an error
- during operations. If this file exists, it is
- intended for your viewing pleasure. The ## will be
- replaced with the node #.
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