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DISCLAIMER ---------- The contributors have taken every precaution to insure that no harm or damage will occur on computer systems operating this package. Nevertheless, they shall NOT be held liable for whatever may happen on your computer system or to any computer systems which connects to your own as a result of operating this package. The user assumes full responsibility for the correct operation of this software package, whether harm or damage results from software error, hardware malfunction, or operator error. NO warranties are offered, expressly stated or implied, including without limitation or restriction any warranties of operation for a particular purpose and/or merchantability. If you do not agree with this then do NOT use Underworld. LICENSE AGREEMENT ----------------- Black Dragon Software reserve all rights to this product. This is protected by the United States of America (USA) and International Copyright Laws. You may modify the enclosed ASCII files and menus to suit your personal needs but you may NOT distribute Underworld modifications as part of the entire package. Tampering with or altering the contents or integrity of the software package is prohibited IF you intend to give a copy of the Underworld archive package to others. No fee may be charged by any agency beyond the cost of distributing copies. The bottom line folks: Don't make any changes in this package and redistribute as coming from us, and you can't re-label or modify the Underworld package and market it as your own! WHAT'S IT GOING TO COST YOU TO USE THIS DOORGAME? ------------------------------------------------- The Underworld Doorgame is distributed as SHAREWARE and requires registration fee of $20.00 before the end of the 60 day trial period. If the fee is not received within 60 days, the players files will be automatically erased by the program. If the door is used beyond 90 days civil charges maybe pressed against the owner of the BBS. REWARDS are offered for users that turn in hacked source and where it came from. INFORMATION: ------------ Underworld is a doorgame that will run on a variety of BBS's. It was created using Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0 and a FREEWARE package door driver DDPLUS 7.0. Features of DDPLUS and the DDPLus Kit: -------------------------------------- IRQs 0-15 are supported. Comports 1-4 supported. Selectable Port Addresses. DesqView aware routines. Fast and correct ansi color routines. Lock baud and comm baud rates to 115,200 Built in Windows, WindowsNT and OS/2 time slice releasing. Fossil support to 38,400 using normal fossil calls. Fossil support to 115,200 using extended fossil calls. Use XFossil for any fossils (X00 or BNU) over 38,400. This option does not open or close the fossil but only writes to it the way it is. Local video can be toggled off to save processing time in multitasking windows or to give some user privacy when competing in game against the sysop. Multiple control files can be accessed by a command line parm. Will work with OR without the presence of a fossil. DDSETUP.EXE is provided to help users configure the required CTL file for use with Underworld. DDSETUP is FREEWARE. Files Included -------------- Below is a listing of all files for the this Package. Feel free to give out copies of the ENTIRE archive package but please make sure all the files below are in that package: CRIME95.EXE - The executable doorgame. RECDUMP.EXE - Utility will dump players files in ASCII format. RECMAKE.EXE - Utility reverse of above. NPCDUMP.EXE - Utility will dump 1 level of NPC's into ASCII format. NPCMAKE.EXE - Utility reverse of above. FILE_ID.DIZ - ASCII Description File for BBS Sysops on BDUWCD10.ZIP SYSOP.DOC - The file you are now reading. COLORMEN.DOC - How to program the color menus. *.MEN - COLOR MENUS read COLORMEN.DOC WEAPONS.TXT - Weapons bought and sold in the game. ITEMS.TXT - All tangable assets in the game. DDSETUP.ZIP - VGA Setup program for distribution with doors made using the DDPlus Package. Freeware. WHAT ARE DROP FILES? -------------------- When the BBS transfers control to a door program it provides a file, called a "DROP FILE" to the door program which contains essential information such as the users name, time remaining, com port, connect speed, etc.. The format for this "DROP FILE" varies from BBS to BBS. At this time the DDPlus Package supports the following drop file formats: DOORSYS - The DOOR.SYS format (Wildcat!,GAP,TAG, etc) RBBS - Rbbs version 16.1+ (uses DORINFOx.DEF*) QUICK - Quickbbs,Force,R.A. (uses DORINFOx.DEF**) PCB12 - Pcboard version 12 (note: see COMPORT note below) PCB14 - Pcboard version 14 PCB15 - Pcboard version 15 PHOENIX - Phoenix bbs (uses INFO.BBS) SPITFIRE - Spitfires bbs (uses SFDOORS.DAT) WWIV - WWIV bbs (uses CHAIN.TXT) 2AM - 2 A.M. software (uses JUMPER.DAT) TRIBBS - TriBBS software (uses TRIBBS.SYS) CALLINFO - Old Wildcat 2.xx(obsolete dropfile CALLINFO.BBS) THE DOOR CONTROL FILE (CTL) --------------------------- To run properly DDPlus requires configuration information from a control (CTL) file. For your use a GAME.CTL file is enclosed with this package. The GAME.CTL file is unedited and heavily commented so that you might understand what each line does. Note that lines beginning with the ";" character are NOT read by the DDPlus program unit. This CTL file tells the DDPlus portion of your program how to act, what drop file to use, etc. It should be noted that a program produced with DDPlus will NOT function without the presence of a CTL file. The CTL file can be renamed, such as GOC.CTL or RAW.CTL and is loaded and processed automatically when your program calls "INITDOORDRIVER" (explained below). It has been our experience that most problems experienced by users of doors made with DDPlus are from improperly configured CTL files. To help correct this Steven Lorenz has created a standard CTL setup program which can be distributed with your programs and is FREEWARE. This setup program (DDSETUP.ZIP) provides VGA and mouse support and is very professional is appearance. It is also suggested that you provide a copy of the GAME.CTL file with your door packages for user information purposes and as a backup in those rare cases where the CTL setup program does not function correctly because of an odd system configuration. Command Line Parameters ----------------------- "/Bxxxxx" This tells CRIME95.EXE to lock its baud rate at xxxxx. In order to get the most efficiency out of a high speed error correcting modem (9600 baud or above), you may lock the baud rate to a speed higher than what the caller is actually using. By locking the baud to say 38,400, the modem can compress text data that is being sent and achieve a baud rate much higher than the actual transmission rate. This will lock the baud rate at the same value for all nodes that use this command line. If you perfer a more selective way to lock baud use 'LOCKBAUD' command in the GAME.CTL file. "/Cx" (where x is 1..4) This specifies a comport number. Some bbs software does not create door information files (dropfiles) that contain the comport number. If your bbs does have a comport listed in the dropfile then there is no need for this parameter. The default is comport 0, local mode. "/E" - Expanded Memory Specification If your machine has over one megabyte of memory, then you may have some available. CRIME95.EXE can utilize EMS to improve game performance and reduce conventional memory requirements. This command will tell CRIME95.EXE to use EMS memory to hold its overlay buffer. Otherwise disc area may be used to hold this buffer. This needs a memory manager and when enabled and is compatible with DESQview. Default is NOT to use any available EMS. "/L" This tells CRIME95.EXE to load up in LOCAL mode. This is good for testing or when a sysop just wants to "try out" the door without messing with his BBS setup. The "/L" mode will ask the user for his name and run the door in local mode. "/Nx" (where x is 1..9) This specifies a "node number". Some bbs software support multinode environments in which you must know the node number of the drop file to use. For example, RBBS-PC uses DORINFOx.DEF. If you specified "/N2" then CRIME95.EXE would use DORINFO2.DEF. "/Mx" (where x is up to 2 filename acceptable characters) Used to specify one of Multiple control files. If you have created more than one CRIME95.CTL file (GAME1.CTL, GAME2.CTL, etc.) for each node or network PC then you can select the one you want by using the /M parm. Example: "/M2" will force CRIME95.EXE to use GAME2.ctl. "/Pyyy" This specifies the path to the drop files. For example, "/PC:\WILDCAT\WCWORK\NODE1" would tell CRIME95.EXE to look for the drop file in C:\WILDCAT\WCWORK\NODE1. If this is left out the program assumes the drop file is local. -> "/R" Forces local RIP, if supported by the Door Program. Use AFTER the "/L" parameter if running the door locally. Use this with Doors which have RipLink built in to them to force display of RIP on the sysops screen. Default is No Local RIP otherwise. "/V" This command will tell CRIME95.EXE not to show any display on the local screen. Only a colored screen and a message will be displayed. The cursor will not move as it will be turned off. Saves a little processing on multi-tasking systems. "/W" This flags the program that a network is present even though no multitaskers are detected. This is useful if the door is run on a network such as Novell that doesn't use multitaskers. Special Note on RIP Support --------------------------- Underworld doesn't use RIP, maybe in future versions. CREDITS: -------- This relatively small section is just to recognize the people who have made the Underworld a possibility. Julie Haske -=*=- Original concept of game, she basically asked if I could make an elephant this big. I got real stupid and answered, "YES.". She gets 10% for her idea, while I get 90% for my headaches. Scott Bradbury -=*=- For use of The Coral Reef BBS for Beta Testing. Mr. Wizard -=*=- For use of The Emerald City BBS for Testing. The DDPLUS team! Scott Baker -=*=- The authors of the original DoorDriver Kit and are to be thanked for releasing the Derrick Parkhurst source code to their great kit! Without that act of kindness DDPLUS would NOT be possible. Hopefully Steve and I have done your kit justice and given it a new lease on life in the programming world. Scott is the author of several door games, most notably Land of Devastation, which uses the original doordriver kit. Steven Lorenz -=*=- The author of the enhanced add on package to Scott Bakers DoorDriver Kit. Thanks to his code modifications, add ons and enhancements DDPLus is a much more complete and capable package then originally released in the DoorDriver Kit. He is also responsible for the DDPlus setup program which he freely donated. Steve is the author of several door games, most notably Railroad Empires, Romans At War, and Empires at War, all of which use DDPlus. Bob Dalton -=*=- The author of most of the documentation in this package and contributor of the OVERLAY.ZIP, LOCKING.ZIP, ELOG.ZIP and many other items in this kit. Bob is the author of several door games, such as GodFather of Crime, Rise To Power, Task Force Broadside, Ship of the Line, Grunt Fest, Way Freight and the Adventure Door Game Toolkit, all of which use DDPLus. Dedicated to Pooh Bear. Thanks!