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- 03-Mar-92
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- English documentation for C h a l l e n g e r
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- 1. Short description of the program
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- Challenger is a quiz program with 500 internal stored questions. You can
- play it alone or against up to 5 other persons. At each question four ans-
- wers are displayed; only one of them is the right one. Input is possible
- with the mouse or alternatively with the keyboard. The program also keeps
- a highscore-list, where the ten best players are stored.
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- 2. Starting the program
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- Just double-click on the icon. The program runs under Amigas with 512 KByte
- of memory or more.
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- 3. Detailed description of the program functions
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- After the start of the program a window appears a few seconds later; from
- here you can start four actions. Per menu you can only choose "About". A
- window with some Copyright informations appears.
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- The other three actions are started by mouse-clicks. If you click the right
- box ("QUIT"), the program is terminated.
- If you click the box in the middle ("HIGHSCORES"), then the ten best pla-
- yers with their respective per cent numbers appear.
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- After clicking on the left box ("TEST") the Challenger-Test begins. At
- first it is to determine how many persons are participated in the game
- (1 to 6). Clicking on "Forget it" will break the test.
- If you have clicked on a number between two and six, you are asked if there
- should be the same questions for all players or if every player should be-
- come different questions. For example: if there are three players selected,
- "same" means that there is the same question for all three players in a
- round; "different" means, that there are always three different questions.
- At next you are asked, how many questions per player should be asked (10 to
- 30).
- At last the names of the players are asked. If no names are stored, the
- first player must type in his name directly in the appearing window. In the
- other case you have to click on "NEW", if you want to type in a name which
- is not yet stored.
- All names which are typed in are stored in a file and are visible on the
- left side of the window. So if your name is already stored, you just have
- to click on "CHOOSE" (only if this word is not written in red) and then
- click on the desired name.
- All stored names can be changed. Click on "CHANGE" and then on the desired
- name. Now type in the changed name.
- If all players have entered their names, the quiz begins.
- For each player appears the name and the current number of points. If there
- are same questions for all players, then the question which is relevant for
- all is written on the top of the window. In the other case the questions
- are written directly under the names of the players. The sequence of the
- players is drawed before each round. The questions are internal grouped in-
- to five difficulty levels. Each player has per five questions to answer one
- question of every difficulty level. The five questions are sequenced by
- random. Thus the quiz is for all players even at different questions of the
- same difficulty.
- For all questions there are four answers, numbered by 1 to 4. You can enter
- the desired number on the keyboard or click on the equivalent box. After
- that the right answer is lighted up in red color (in the case of several
- players with same questions not before the end of the round) and either
- null or one point is added to the players score. If all players are ready,
- the next round begins.
- After the selected number of rounds the final result is displayed. If one
- or more players reached new highscores, the new highscore-list appears. The
- new highscores are written with red color.
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- 4. Files
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- Challenger contains of the following files:
- - Challenger_english(.info)
- - Challenger_deutsch(.info)
- - challenger_e.main
- - challenger_d.main
- - Challenger_doc(.info)
- - Challenger_dok(.info)
- - the fonts ruby/12 and 3D-Char/18
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- Besides the CLI commands 'IconX' and 'Assign' are needed.
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- The program creates for its internal management three files: names (the
- names of the players), highscores and statistics.
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- 5. I (the author)
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- Udo Haisch
- Frohe Arbeit 13
- W-6800 Mannheim 31
- Germany
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