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- ABOUT THE GAME:
- The idea is to 'PUSH' for points. Each time you push, you have a chance
- of scoring points, or being TERMINATED! If you are terminated, you
- receive 0 points for that turn. Each time you push, the range for which
- you receive points increases, BUT SO DOES YOUR CHANCE OF BEING TERMINATED!
-
- You get ONE terminator token each day. When you are terminated, you can
- choose to use your terminator token, and receive the point value you
- accumulated before being terminated. With only ONE per day, use it wisely!
-
- How far will you PUSH YOUR LUCK? Will you stop in time, or will you
- push your luck too far? Time will tell...
-
-
- LEGAL STUFF:
- This door game may be freely distributed as long the original file
- (in its ZIP form) is distributed and not tampered with in any way.
- To the best of our knowledge, this door game can not in any way cause
- any harm to your system. The game has been tested on several different
- configurations, and has not caused any problems. We, the authors,
- and the authors of the tools we used to write this game, will not
- be responsible for any consequences of you running this game.
-
-
- NOTE about installation:
- We will assume that you know how to set up a door on your specific
- BBS software, and will not go into detail on that. This documentation
- is to tell you how to set up Push Your Luck if you know how to set up
- a door with your BBS. As we are not familiar with all BBS types, we
- will add more instructions to this documenatation as the need arises,
- and as people bring things to our attention concerning specific BBS
- types and operating systems.
-
-
- IF UPGRADING:
- Unzip to your Push Your Luck directory. Nothing will be overwritten
- that shouldn't. If registered, check the new reg.cfg file, and make sure
- you have all the options set the way you want them in your register.cfg.
- If you are currently using the door.cfg file, simply change your door.bat
- to use the -c switch, such as: push -c door.cfg. A better way is simply
- to pass the drop file path and name, and you can in most cases delete
- door.cfg and not use it at all. Example: push -d c:\bbs\dorinfo1.def.
- You can run PUSH -HELP and see all the new options available, although I
- recommend only using the options if you experience problems. If you have
- a local.bat and local.cfg from a previous version, delete them. They
- won't work with this new version, as to test local now, just type PUSH -L.
- Also, if you have a dorinfo1.def in your push directory from a previous
- version, it can be deleted now also, as it was for local mode.
-
-
- PUSH YOUR LUCK installation procedures for a NEW INSTALL:
- 1. Copy all the files into a directory of their own.
- 2. Rename sample.bat to door.bat. Modify it to suit your system.
- Make sure the directories are correct. The -d switch you see
- in there is for your complete path and filename of your drop file.
- 3. There is a sample.cfg file included. This file is usually not
- needed, but is there if you have a non-standard setup. If you
- experience any problems after following these instructions, you
- can run PUSH -HELP to see many options you can manually set.
- ONLY worry about these options if you experience problems.
- If you need to set MANY options due to a non-standard setup,
- then you can rename the sample.cfg to door.cfg, and set the options
- in there. Then in your door.bat, use PUSH -c door.cfg.
-
- NOTE ABOUT MULTINODE:
- THIS GAME IS TRUE MULTINODE, WITH FILE LOCKING. Setup is the same,
- except instead of just door.bat, you will have door1.bat, door2.bat,
- etc. You can also have door1.cfg, door2.cfg, etc.
-
- That's about it. Push Your Luck was written with Borland Turbo C++
- ver 3.0 and Opendoors Door Programming Toolkit ver 6.0. (by Brian Pirie)
-
-
- SYSOP FUNCTION KEYS:
- This door has some built-in Sysop keys, as a result of using Opendoors.
- Some of particular interest are:
- [UP]/[DOWN]: Use the arrow keys to increase or decrease the amount of
- time which the user has left in the door.
- Alt-C: Sysop Chat - Press the Escape Key to exit
- Alt-J: Sysop Jump to Dos - Type exit when done
- This will work if enough memory is available
- Alt-D: Drop to Dos and send the user back to the BBS
- Alt-H: Hang up on User
- Alt-K: The "User Keyboard-Off" key allows the sysop to temporarily
- prevent the user from typing anything on their keyboard.
- This has no effect on the local keyboard, but causes the
- door to ignore any keystrokes from remote. Press Alt-K
- again to re-enable the user's keyboard.
-
-
- MAINTENANCE:
- This door game requires no maintenance on the Sysop's part whatsoever.
- After midnight, users will automatically be allowed to play again.
- The first user to play each month will trigger monthly maintenance to run
- automatically, saving last month's winner, and resetting the user and
- score files.
-
-
- TESTING THE DOOR IN LOCAL MODE:
- If you want to test the door in local mode before setting it up on your
- BBS, just type PUSH -L. Then, to reset the game before installing,
- just delete *.dat and *.dte. DON'T DELETE THESE IF THIS IS AN UPGRADE!
-
-
- SUPPORTING THE AUTHOR:
- Please read register.doc to see the benefits of registering, and
- how you can register this game.
-
-
- WHERE TO GET NEW VERSIONS OF THIS GAME:
- You can call the author's BBS, or any of the Beta sites listed below for
- the newest versions of this game. You can also FREQ under the magic name
- of PUSH either from the authors BBS or any of the Beta Sites.
-
- If you have access to the internet, please visit our web page at:
- http://it.pulsenet.com/~psible
- You can download any of our door games from this site.
-
-
- THANKS!:
- We'd like to thank many people for helping us with this game, either by
- testing it for us, or supplying information to us. Some, but not all, are:
-
- Roger Spaw, Warren Schrey (author of LORE), Keith Thomson, Curtis Sproul,
- Mike Jordan, and Alex Kotov.
-
- AUTHOR'S BBS:
- The Pet Corral Uniontown, PA Paul Sible and Paula Junk
- (412) 437-3023 FIDONET 1:2615/20 Supra 28.8 Modems
-
- BETA SITES:
- BBS Name Sysop Name Phone Number FIDONET
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The Outhouse BBS Curtis Sproul (412) 329-0925 1:2615/24
- The Light BBS Roger Spaw (412) 438-6596 1:2615/21
- StarCraft Alcun/2 Keith Thomson (970) 864-2227 1:15/42
-
- And many special thanks to all who are running this game, especially
- those who supported us!
-