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This is a ShareWare release, so you may make and distribute copies of this software, preferably in the original archive you received it in, and even charge a nominal fee. You may place this in a collection of software, such as a User Group's Library. You may upload this to any BBS or Information Service. In fact, you are encouraged to do all of these things, but only with this UNREGISTERED ShareWare Release. The software and this manual are Copyright 1996, All Rights Reserved. - G O T H I K v 1.5 -=- SysOp Installation Documentation - Page 1 - Table Of Contents =-----=--=--------= Section Page =----------------------------------------------------------------=----= I. What Is GOTHIK? .......................................... 2 II. What Does It Run Under? .................................. 2 III. How Do I Configure GOTHIK? ............................... 3 IV. How Do I Register GOTHIK? ................................ 5 V. Why Should I Register GOTHIK? ............................ 5 VI. What Does The Future Hold For GOTHIK? .................... 6 VII. Thank You................................................. 6 - G O T H I K v 1.5 -=- SysOp Installation Documentation - Page 2 - Section I -=- What Is GOTHIK? ------------------------------- A very good question, indeed. GOTHIK is a BBS door online game which pits vampires against hunters. The player can choose the sex of their character, "roll dice" to set their stats, and if they are 18 or older they can choose the level of language/situations they can encounter (Lewd, Rude, or Prude -- Prude being chosen by default if the player is under 18). The game opens with a story that allows the player to choose whether they want to be a Vampire or a Hunter. From then on, the game is afoot. While the game is running, you have the following keystrokes available: (Press F9 while game is running to see a quick list in status line) Alt-C Enter chat mode Alt-H Hangup on the user Alt-L Lock the user out of the BBS system (Depends on your BBS) Alt-J Drop to the DOS shell Alt-K Toggle the user's keyboard on or off Alt-D Drop to the BBS without hanging up Up-Arrow Increases the user's time left Down-Arrow Decreases the user's time left Section II -=- What Does It Run Under? ---------------------------------------- GOTHIK was written using Brian Pirie's OpenDoors C Door Library to take advantage of the wide range of operating systems and BBS software it supports. Operating systems supported: MS-DOS DESQview MS-Windows OS/2 FOSSIL Driver Support: Can function with or without a FOSSIL driver DigiBoard support, as well as Non-standard IRQ settings RIP graphics support: Look forward to more RIP graphics in future versions of GOTHIK BBS Drop files supported: DOOR.SYS ***** Preferred because it provides the player's Birthdate CHAIN.TXT DORINFO1.DEF SFDOORS.DAT CALLINFO.BBS * Note: Since GOTHIK can use virtually any drop file it finds, if your BBS can generate different formats, it is best to choose DOOR.SYS, and have a batch file that copies that drop file to the directory GOTHIK is in with no other drop files for it to choose on accident. There is a .BAT file for you to use as an example. * NOTE: v1.5 has added the ability to use a command-line option to force a specific level of language. This is to be used, say, if your BBS's drop file doesn't include the user's birthdate. The command-line parameter is -Ln, where n is either 0 (Prude), 1 (Rude), or 2 (Lewd). So, if you need a seperate "Adult" version from the BBS, run: GOTHIK -L2 - G O T H I K v 1.5 -=- SysOp Installation Documentation - Page 3 - Section III -=- How Do I Configure GOTHIK? -------------------------------------------- Using any text editor, you can edit the "GOTHIK.CFG" file. Here is an example: RegisteredTo UNREGISTERED RegisteredBBS UNREGISTERED RegisteredKey UNREGISTERED Moves 30 InactiveExpire 30 BBSDir C:\GOTHIK\ DoorDir C:\GOTHIK\ MaximumDoorTime 30 InactivityTimeout 180 ;NoFossil ;LocalMode Blank lines and anything following a semicolon are commented out. The only three lines required to be in the CFG are the following: RegisteredTo UNREGISTERED RegisteredBBS UNREGISTERED RegisteredKey UNREGISTERED When you register GOTHIK, you will be given your unique Registration key and can put your name and BBS name in the above lines. Here is a breakdown of the commands you could place in your config to customize the workings of GOTHIK, with description and examples: BBSDir C:\GOTHIK\ - Full path to the drop file you are using (defaults to the current directory) DoorDir C:\GOTHIK\ - Full path to GOTHIK.EXE and it's data files (defaults to the current directory). Moves 30 - The number of moves the player can make each day in the game (defaults to 25 if not set in CFG file). InactiveExpire 45 - The number of days to delete a player from the game if they don't play for too many days (defaults to 30 if not set in CFG file). MaximumDoorTime 30 - The number of minutes the player is allowed in the game (defaults to the amount of time the user has on the BBS). InactivityTimeout 180 - The number of seconds to wait between before warning the user that they are in danger of timing out and being disconnected (A value of 0 will turn off the timeout disconnect). - G O T H I K v 1.5 -=- SysOp Installation Documentation - Page 4 - LocalMode - Local mode override. Forces door to always operate in local test mode. This uses generic info, not from a BBS drop file. LogFileName GOTHIK.LOG - Specifies filename (path optional) where GOTHIK door should record log information. DisableLogging - Disables the log file altogether. SwappingNoEMS - Used to prevent any swapping from being done to EMS memory when dropping to DOS with the Alt-J key. SwappingDir C:\GOTHIK\ - Used to specify which directory or directories should be used for memory swapping and it can't use extended memory. SwappingDisable - Disables memory swapping altogether. NoFossil - Set this if you are not using a FOSSIL driver for communications. And if only if you are not using a FOSSIL driver, do you need the following commands: PortAddress 2F8 - Hexidecimal address of the serial port. This address can usually be determined automatically for ports COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4, and is normally only required for ports COM5 and higher. PortIRQ 4 - Interrupt request line that the serial port is using. May be any IRQ line from 1 to 15. By default, IRQ line 4 is used for ports COM1: and COM3:, while IRQ line 3 is used for all other ports. ReceiveBuffer 256 - Serial I/O buffer sizes. "ReceiveBuffer" specifies the number of bytes in the serial I/O receive buffer. You may want to increase this buffer size if you find that characters being sent from the user's modem are being lost. TransmitBuffer 1024 - "TransmitBuffer" specifies the number of bytes in the serial I/O transmit buffer. You may want to increase this buffer size for improved performance in some multitasking environments. NoFIFO - Normally, GOTHIK will use 16550A UART FIFO buffers if they are available. You can prevent usage of the FIFO buffers, even if they are available, by using this command. FIFOTriggerSize 4 - The "FIFOTriggerSize" specifies how many characters may be placed in the FIFO buffers before an serial I/O interrupt is envoked. Valid values are 1, 4, 8 and 14 bytes. (The default value is 4 bytes.) - G O T H I K v 1.5 -=- SysOp Installation Documentation - Page 5 - Section IV -=- How Do I Register GOTHIK? ------------------------------------------ To register GOTHIK v1.5 and receive your Registration key, I ask only for the humble amount of $10.00 (US). Since I am a Starving Shareware Author, I cannot afford to take credit card orders. Just checks and money orders, please. Please send U.S. funds. Please make them out to: Daniel Shaurette Send your check/money order and the following form to: AQUARIUS Software 9201 N. 29th Ave. #63-231 Phoenix, AZ 85051 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SysOp Name ______________________________________________________________ (as your BBS knows you, by handle or otherwise) BBS Name ________________________________________________________________ BBS Number (_____) ______ - __________ Real Name _______________________________________________________________ (first) (M.I.) (last) Address _________________________________________________________________ City __________________________________ State ________ Zip ____________ Country (if not USA) ____________________________________________________ How would you like to [ ] Through postal mail at address above receive your key: [ ] Internet Email at __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section V -=- Why Should I Register GOTHIK? --------------------------------------------- Another very good question, indeed. Here are the top five reasons: 5. Well, to support the ShareWare concept, of course. Good karma! 4. To support ME in improving GOTHIK and writing other software. 3. To prevent GOTHIK from whining about being UNREGISTERED and proudly displaying your BBS's name. 2. I'm only asking $10 -- surely that's a fair price for a good game, a player editor, and one IGM that comes with source code so you too can make IGMs! 1. But, probably the most convincing reason -- your players won't get past level SIX without the game being registered. I didn't wanna have to do it. But a guy's gotta eat, y'know. - G O T H I K v 1.5 -=- SysOp Installation Documentation - Page 6 - Section VI -=- What Does The Future Hold For GOTHIK? ------------------------------------------------------ Well, I accomplished a lot of what I wanted in a game when I finished v1.42, including the ability to add In-Game-Modules (see IGM.DOC). What I added to v1.5 was two requests by SysOps: The first is the command-line parameter (-L<0,1,2>) to override the language choice by the user -- primarily for those BBS's that cannot generate drop files with a birthdate. (Apparently PCBoard's DOOR.SYS does NOT include the birthdate -- Thanks to Tammy Sobeck for pointing that out to me and asking for an alternative.) The second is the Suicide/Delete Character abilities in GOTHIK and GOTHEDIT. GOTHEDIT can now mark a player for deletion... GOTHIK's maintenance still is what deletes a character. But before, the only way a character was "killed" was by not playing the game within the sysop-determined time range. Now, there is a (K)ill your character option in the game so that players can start over from scratch. (Thanks to Mary Walker for asking for these options.) What I see the future holding for GOTHIK is the following: * More graphics, ANSI and RIP! * True multi-node capability. Right now, it can only be run on one node at a time and prevents other nodes from playing. * InterBBS play! * Really cool IGMs, like a Casino! * Whatever else you guyz suggest! I am open to any and all ideas! (As I hopefully just proved! Thanks again Tammy and Mary!) Of course, all future version upgrades will be free to registered users! You can reach me for assistance, support questions, guidance, recipes, comments, suggestions, and insults at the address above or through my Internet Email address: dshauret@indirect.com or you can visit my WWW home page at: http://www.indirect.com/www/dshauret/ or you can call my BBS - The Mostly Harmless BBS: (602) 395-0472 Section VII -=- Thank You! -------------------------- There are a lot of people I want to thank for helping me with this project, which began August 6, 1995 and was supposed to have ended October 20, 1995 with version 1.0b, and without these people, would never have gotten as far as it did! * Everyone on my BBS who played GOTHIK v1.0b thru 1.5 acting as beta testers. * Everyone on infidim.com (602/840-1268) who did the same. * Special thanks to Karl Long for ideas and support. * Super-special thanks to Don Freed for technical ideas, bug extermination, and just being the hoopy frood that he is. * As with all software I write, this is dedicated to the memory of Joe Demko - my teacher - my mentor - my friend. * And my love and thanks to everyone else, too numerous to list, who had to put up with me while I worked on this. Love, Light, and Peace.