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┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Wheel Of Misfortune │ │ ======================= │ │ │ │ A Live Game for Many BBS's │ │ │ │ Game Release Version 3.0 - 01/01/91 │ │ │ │ (C)opyright 1989 │ │ │ │ By │ │ │ │ SECRET SERVICE BBS │ │ │ │ Mike Wilson │ │ P.O. Box 9521 │ │ Huntington, WV │ │ 25704 │ │ │ │ BBS (304) 429-6838 │ │ 1200/2400/9600 24 hrs. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Wheel Of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 - Page 1 Warranty This is product is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the program is assumed by you. Futher more, I the author do not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations regarding the use of, or the results of the use of the program, and you rely on the program and results solely at your risk. I the author cannot accept responsibility for system damage, loss of profit, or any other special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use this product. Copyright The Multi-Board Wheel Of Misfortune live game is distributed as SHAREWARE. Under this concept you may use the SHAREWARE (unregistered) version for a reasonable period of time, which I consider to be three weeks, after which you must either register your copy or discontinue usage. Registeration With registration you will recieve the latest registered copy of Wheel Of Misfortune with the ability to download any futher updates from Secret Service BBS at no extra cost. You will also recieve any support the author can give in reference to bugs or other problems that may arise in using the game. I feel that sysop's have enough expense without charging a high cost for a game for their users. I have set the cost of registration at $20.00 which I feel if people will follow the shareware concept will be enough to cover shipping and handling and encourage me to write more doors. See register.txt for ordering instructions. Distribution You are free, in fact encouraged, to distribute the SHAREWARE (unregistered) version of The Multi-Board! Wheel Of Misfortune Live Game provided that all files contained in the original Wheel Of Misfortune archive are distributed in their original unmodified state. Wheel Of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 - Page 2 Introduction & How To Play The Game of Wheel of Misfortune presents five different word lists that are based on various subject matter. The user picks a list that would be of interest to them. They must then spin the wheel to determine what the point value of each letter will be and a total word value is given. A series of blocks with ? marks in them appears, each block represents a letter in the word they must guess. The user may choose up to 9 consonants. If a consonant they choose is in the word they will be told such and the consonant will take the place of the ? in the proper postion within the blocks. A user may buy a vowel but it will cost them $20.00 for each vowel. A user may only have one guess at each word. If they guess the word correctly then they are credited the total word value for that play. Options and Information This door game will also create color and mono top 10 bulletins and write them in directories of your choice written in the .CFG file. The game tracks the montly champion and also displays it within the color and ascii bulletins. Installation and Setup Installation procedures are relatively simple. Create a new directory and dissolve the contents of Wheel.zip into it. Run Setup.exe and answer the questions as they appear. If you have problems understanding a question then refer to the detailed instructions below. Create a batch file to call the game from you bbs. The section of these docs titled BATCH FILES will instruct you how to do this on your particular board software. The following are detailed descriptions of files in the archive: Wheel.CFG contains: The Secret Service BBS <-- Name of BBS Mike <-- Sysop's first name Wilson <-- Sysop's last name C:\Path\BBSInfo.??? <-- Path and filename for Board Info. file C:\Path\Color.scr <-- Path & Filename to create COLOR bulletin C:\Path\ASCII.bbs <-- Path & Filename to create MONO bulletin NO <-- NO or locked COM PORT Baud Rate U <-- U for Unlimited plays per day O for Once per day COMPUTERS <-- WORD1.LST TOPIC (MUST NOT CHANGE IF USING LISTS IN ZIP!) SPORTS <-- WORD2.LST TOPIC (MUST NOT CHANGE IF USING LISTS IN ZIP!) ANIMALS <-- WORD3.LST TOPIC (MUST NOT CHANGE IF USING LISTS IN ZIP!) THE BIBLE <-- WORD4.LST TOPIC (MUST NOT CHANGE IF USING LISTS IN ZIP!) TRAVEL <-- WORD5.LST TOPIC (MUST NOT CHANGE IF USING LISTS IN ZIP!) The line asking for Boardinfo file path and name refers to the file that your particular BBS creates when it drops out to run a game. This would be: Wildcat prior to V3.0 --> Callinfo.bbs PCBoard ----> PCBoard.sys GAP or WILDCAT 3.0+ ----> Door.sys Spitfire ---> SFDoors.dat QuickBBS -----> DorinfoX.def (The X would be 1 or 2 depending on node #) A proper example of the line would be: C:\Wildcat\Callinfo.bbs Wheel of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 Page - 3 The lines asking for path and file names to write the color and mono top ten bulletins can be any proper path and file name that you want these written to. NOTE FOR MULTI NODES! You may now have several .cfg files to allow use on multinode systems. Use the above .cfg format but name each .cfg file differently. You may call them what you want as long as you correctly call them from the batch file command line. Example: Node1: game game.cfg Node2: game game1.cfg ** If you run Multi-nodes and need to alter the address or IRQ of either COM 3 or 4 then please read the file Port.doc for instructions! * NOTE * You may run the game locally by typing: Wheel Local on the command line. IN LOCAL MODE THE SYSOP WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VIEW THE FIVE TOPIC AREAS WITHIN THE GAME! LOCAL ONLY INSERTS "WORDS RELATED TO VARIOUS TOPICS" IN PLACE OF WHAT THE USER WILL SEE SUCH AS BIBLE OR SPORTS! The last five lines in the .cfg file are the topics that are presented to users of words within the game. These should remain the same if you use the word lists that came in the zip. The sysop may make up his own word lists for the game and enter the topic of them on the correct lines of the .cfg file if he wishes. The same words may get old after a long period of play and replacement of the word lists will be desireable. The first line corresponds to words within the file word1.lst, the second line word2.lst, etc. MAKING YOUR OWN WORD LISTS FOR THE GAME --------------------------------------- YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE WORD LISTS! YOU MAY USE THE ONES THAT CAME WITHIN THE ZIP! IF YOU DO WISH TO MAKE YOUR OWN LISTS OF WORDS FOR THE GAME THEN READ THE FOLLOWING! A sysop must follow these guidelines in developing his own word lists! * The list must have EXACTLY 60 entries. * The words can NOT be less than 4 letters or more than 10! * There should NOT be a carriage return on the last line of the file. or you will see an error 9 displayed when that list is chosen. * There are five word lists that you may replace. These lists are called word1.lst, word2.lst, word3.lst , word4.lst and word5.lst. These files must be named EXACTLY like that! * All words entered must be in " ". EXAMPLE: "WORD" * Topics should be changed in the .cfg to refer to the correct word list so that a user doesn't pick words that relate to sports and get a word that relates to the new topics you have added. * The program has built in error detection for file lists. If a list is shorter than 60 it will send a message to the user that the file is missing some words and that they should tell the sysop. It will not crash or lock up! They may then choose a proper working alternate list. * If you enter a word more than 10 letters or less than 4 it will not lock up but also display for the user that an improper word was found. It will then go to a proper word. Wheel of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 Page - 4 Wheel.DAT contains: This file contains the following user data: "The Champion","11-01-1988","100" "Mike Wilson","11-23-1988","100" Data has to be kept in this format, but you can delete all lines except for line number 1 which is the Last Months Champ line. You can alter line 1 but not remove it. You need to alter line 1's Date form 11-01-1988 to the month that your setting up this door. For example if it is December just simply change the Date to 12-01-1988. It doesn't matter if it's the 1st or the 10th, only the Month (12) will make any difference. Wheel.TXT contains: This is the instruction file for Wheel Of Misfortune. When a user selects the See Instructions option during the game, this file is read for instructions. This file MUST BE PRESENT and Not altered in any way for Wheel Of Misfortune to run properly BOARD.TXT --------- Don't worry about this file. It is created when you run setup.exe This file tells the game which BBS Software you are running and tells it to read the correct board file. THERE SHOULD NOT BE A BOARD.TXT FILE IN THE GAME DIRECTORY IF YOUR RUNNING WILDCAT PRIOR TO VERSION 3.0! The game looks for this file and defaults to Wildcat if it isn't found. For other boards it will contain one line with one of the following: QuickBBS --------> QBBS GAP or WILDCAT 3.0+ ---> GAP PCBoard ---------> PCB Spitfire --------------> SPITFIRE List of Files In Archive The following files are either found in your Wheel Of Misfortune Zip or will be created during the runtime execution of the game. Wheel.EXE <--- Executable Program. Wheel.CFG #<--- Configuration File. Wheel.DAT <--- Store User's Name, Last Play Date & Score. Wheel.TXT <--- Instructions Used By Program. BULLET##.SCR *<--- COLOR Bulletin BULLET##.BBS *<--- MONO Bulletin Wheel.DOC <--- This File. WORD1.LST <--- List of words used during game play. WORD2.LST <--- List of words used during game play. Wheel of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 Page - 5 WORD3.LST <--- List of words used during game play. WORD4.LST <--- List of words used during game play. WORD5.LST <--- List of words used during game play. Port.doc <--- Docs for Multi-nodes to alter Com 3 or 4 address or IRQ * DENOTES that file is created during RUN-TIME. # DENOTES that file is made during Setup.exe run. Batch Files ================= Be sure that you have edited or created the WHEEL.CFG file with the correct information as described earlier in these docs. The individual setups do not repeat this necessary process. Wildcat! 1.13 & 2.0+ Setup: --------------------------- First, create your DOOR##.BAT (2.0+) or LIVE##.BAT (1.13) like this eample: ECHO OFF CD \WILDCAT\DOORS\WHEEL WHEEL WHEEL.CFG CD \WILDCAT CAT.BAT place this batch file in your Node# directory if running Multi-Nodes or in your Wildcat (default) directory if single node. Second, Create a sub-directory for the door program such as in the following example: C:\WILDCAT\DOORS\WHEEL Third, put the WHEEL game files in the \WILDCAT\DOORS\WHEEL directory. Forth, add this game to your live program menu for user selection and your ready to run the door. If this is a little unclear then please read your systems documentation for more detailed instructions. If you use a door monitoring program then read their documentation for their specific setup. Gap Setup: ---------- First, add the number and name of the door to your menu. This will allow the user to select the door by number. Wheel of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 Page - 6 Second, edit or create the file called DOORS.DAT which is normally in the GEN directory. Following is an example line to add: WM 10 where 'WM' stands for the name of the batch file (shown below) to invoke the the door and '10' is the required security level. Third, create a sub-directory for WHEEL to be placed in. And example would be: C:\GAP\WHEEL place all the files in the WHEEL.ZIP archive inside this directory. Forth, create a batch file called WHEEL which should be placed in the default directory. Following is example contents of this file: ECHO OFF CD\GAP\WHEEL WHEEL WHEEL.CFG CD\GAP GAP the last line in the WHEEL file should invoke the batch file which loads the GAP BBS system. If this is a little unclear then please read your systems documentation for more detailed instructions. If you use a door monitoring program then read their documentation for their specific setup. Spitfire Setup: --------------- First edit your SFDOOR.MNU and add the following line. If you are not running and doors at this time you will need to create this file. WHEEL, 10 Where WHEEL is the name of the door to appear on your menu and the 10 is the lowest security level that will be allowed to enter the door. Don't forget the comma (,) after the name. Second create a sub-directory to place the door game in. In this example we will use 'C:\SF\DOOR_A' for the game directory. Third move all the files in the WHEEL.ZIP archive into this directory. Forth edit your SF.BAT file adding the following lines. :DOOR_A CD\SF\DOORS_A WHEEL WHEEL.CFG CD\SF GOTO LOOP Wheel of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 Page - 7 Fifth, rerun Sf.BAT and your ready to begin play. If this is a little unclear then please read your systems documentation for more detailed instructions. If you use a door monitoring program then read their documentation for their specific setup. PCBoard 14.0+ Setup: -------------------- First, edit your DOORS and DOORSG file so that it shows WHEEL with the door number relating to it's position in DOORS.DAT. Second, edit the DOORS.DAT file so that it includes WHEEL. Third, create a sub-directory for WHEEL to be placed in. And example would be: C:\PCB\WHEEL place all the files in the WHEEL.ZIP archive inside this directory. Forth, create a batch file called WHEEL which should be placed in the default directory. Following is example contents of this file: ECHO OFF CD\PCB\WHEEL WHEEL WHEEL.CFG CD\PCB BOARD the last line in the WHEEL file should invoke the batch file which loads the PCboard BBS system. If this is a little unclear then please read your systems documentation for more detailed instructions. If you use a door monitoring program then read their documentation for their specific setup. QuickBBS Setup: --------------- First, add the game to your games menu and select the correct type for doors. Second, create a sub-directory for the game and move all the files from the zip file to this directory. Third, the game reads the file DORINFOx.DEF. Where 'x' is the node number. Since QuickBBS only supports one node at this time then this file should be 'DORINFO1.DEF'. This file's drive\path\filename should be on the third line of the configuration file. Note: It was told to me that the upcoming 3.0 version of QuickBBS will support Multi-Nodes and that the 'DORINFOx.DEF' will be changed to 'DORINFxx.DEF' to support Multi-Nodes. This game is written where you can specify this new name as well as any others. Wheel of Misforunte (C)opyright 1989 Page - 8 Forth, create a batch file called WHEEL which should be placed in the default directory. Following is example contents of this file: ECHO OFF CD\QUICKBBS\WHEEL WHEEL WHEEL.CFG CD\QUICKBBS QBBS.BAT the last line in the WHEEL file should invoke the batch file which loads the QuickBBS system. If this is a little unclear then please read your systems documentation for more detailed instructions. If you use a door monitoring program then read their documentation for their specific setup. Technical Support If you have problems with the Wheel Of Misfortune live game you may contact Mike Wilson at the Secret Service BBS 24 hours per day. Relaynet ID -->SECRET Fido -> 1:262/29 Order Information Just mail $20.00 Check, Money Order or Cash to: **Please include your board name with your order as you want it to appear within the program. Mike Wilson P.O. Box 9521 Huntington, WV 25704 ALL FUNDS MUST BE U.S.! Make Checks out to Mike Wilson. Thanks to Jeff Sumberg for some great C routines used in this program. Wheel of Misfortune (C)opyright 1989 Page - 9