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- Cyber Link Modules Archive #2
- Written By Instigist,
- Snake's Pit BBS: 310-863-3754
-
- Well, since my last mod pack, I have been working on various new mods
- for Cyberlink BBS. I also found some bugs which had to be fixed, so
- the new versions/fixed archives have been added to this mod pack.
-
- NEW MODULES:
-
- Cyberlink Empire v1.0 :
- First off I want to make a BIG NOTE, this version of empire was written
- from scratch without using routines from any previous version of the game.
- I have never been really big on C-net's version of empire. It is lacking
- in certain areas i've thought, though it has been improving and is now
- pretty good. I have modeled my version after the old Town Empire of
- Image BBS and Color 64. It contains all of the standard empire options
- as well as a complete town. In the town you may train soldiers(to nobles),
- buy slaves(serfs), gamble, hire spies, auction off old property, change
- tax rate, etc. In the near future(probably the next update) I will be
- implementing colonies and ships, so that will add a new twist. I haven't
- seen a game of colony empire since the commodore 64 years ago.
-
- User Biographies v1.1 :
- I released v1.1 for two reasons, one is a minor enhancement, and the
- other is to fix some bugs(see below). The enhancement is that you can
- now re-edit your own biography if you so desire, in case anything
- changes, or you just would like to update it a little(new equipment,
- new hobbies, new joke, etc). That's the only enhancement to v1.0.
- I had kind of sped through writing user biographies the first time and
- didn't do much testing of it. I found a couple of bugs that needed to
- be fixed. First off was a simple one, it always showed your acess level
- after your city when it shouldn't have, so that has been corrected. The
- other problem was that if you used a blank line it would show up as
- RESULT. That has been fixed, this is now a fully 100% working version
- of user biographies, so I hope you enjoy it. I also added carrier check
- routines.
-
- Stock Market:
- I have converted StockMarket v2.02 from C-Net Amiga BBS. This took
- a lot of painstaking work, so I hope everyone enjoys it. It is a
- little less colorful, but I think everyone should understand why,
- considering there are no color codes for Cyberlink while there are
- for C-net. Anyhow, I hope that you enjoy it.
-
- Hacker v4.6:
- I have converted Hacker v4.6 from Trinity BBS. This was the hardest
- conversion I have ever done. Not only was it full of MCI commands, but
- it didn't work right. I had to totally debug the haa and dial
- sub-systems. This was a long, horrible process that went on for a
- couple of days, so I hope someone uses it! Enjoy...
-
- Vote Booth v1.1 :
- The voting booth is not really changed, what I did was make it more
- sysop friendly. Now you do not have to edit the .rexx file at all. I have
- written a small documentation right here to tell you how to go about
- making a vote topic. I will also let you know that v1.2 will contain
- multiple vote topics, so that will be a nice addition.
- This voting booth is somewhat limited. You may only have one topic,
- and there can only be nine answers(like anyone ever uses more, haha).
- I am now going to explain the simple way of how to edit your own vote
- questions. First off all these files should be in the directory
- 'doors:vote/'. The file named 'QUESTION' should contain the question
- and the available answers. For example:
-
- Do you like corn?
-
- 1. Yes
- 2. No
- 3. Maybe so!
-
- The only other file you must edit is the file called 'choices'. You will
- simply insert a number into this file that will be the # of choices
- available(available answers). Thus for this example the file choices
- would simply read:
- 3
- The main difference between v1.1 and v1.0 is in v1.0 the 'choices' file
- didn't work so you had to do that manually. Now it is more sysop friendly.
- A note though, if you create a new vote question you will want to clear
- out all the names in the file 'names' because this is the list of people
- who have already voted.
- The only other addition to vote booth v1.1 from v1.0 is I added a
- carrier check routine into the vote prompt.
-
- MATCHMAKER v1.1:
- This program was converted from Trinity BBS, and I also made some
- improvements to it. For one, before it would match you with anyone
- regardless of sex or preference, this has been fixed. Also I made it
- have pauses when you browse another users remarks. Before it would
- go flying through all of them without pausing and you couldn't see
- who said what. This is now fixed.
-