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BobUtils Documentation
After massive frustration playing THEIR FINEST HOUR: The
Battle of Britain, I began developing these utilities to
help my pilots stay alive and get ahead. Hope they will
serve you as well. I've also include a few experienced
pilots to fly your wing on tough missions, and a couple of
missions I designed as examples. The following explanations
should cover the use of all the included files.
COPYROST.BAT - Automatically copies entire roster of pilots
and Top Scores to alternate drive and directory for backup.
You may have to edit this to suit your system & purposes.
COPYBRIT.BAT - Copies multiple British Airmen to save drive
and directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system
& purposes. USE: COPYBRIT Name1 Name2 Name3 . . . etc. NOTE:
Do not use file extensions here, use pilot name only.
EXAMPLE: COPYBRIT TESSLER TOWNSEND FISKE
COPYGERM.BAT - Copies multiple German Airmen to save drive
and directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system
& purposes. USE: COPYGERM Ext Name1 Name2 Name3 . . . etc.
NOTE: Here you must use the file extension as the first
parameter.
EXAMPLE: COPYGERM 109 KOENIG GALLAND SCHMIDT
COPYGERM 110 BRAEDEN MULLER
COPYGERM J87 REINHART RUMEY WOLFF
COPYGERM BMB OUTZMANN RAEDER
RESTROST.BAT - Automatically restores entire roster of
pilots and Top Scores from backup drive and directory.
You may have to edit this to suit your system & purposes.
RESTTOP.BAT - Restores Top Score file from backup drive and
directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system &
purposes. Uses Top Score file name as parameter.
EXAMPLE: RESTTOP PRAF
RESTINDV.BAT - Restores single pilot from backup drive and
directory. You may have to edit this to suit your system &
purposes. Uses pilot name and type as parameters.
EXAMPLE: RESTINDV TESSLER RAF
RESTORE.BAT - This is the reason all of this got done. All
of the rest of the .BAT, .SCR, .DAT, and .TXT files, and the
.COM file work with this to help you resurrect your pilots
that have been KIA, Grounded, or Captured. It also will
allow you to alter their status if you want to intentionally
ground a pilot so you won't use him accidentally. If you
want, you can also mark him off as captured although I can't
figure why anyone would want to do this purposefully. By
poking around in the pilot data files I discovered that the
second byte of the file holds the status of a pilot, i.e.,
00 if the pilot is ACTIVE, 01 if GROUNDED, 02 if CAPTURED,
and 03 if KIA. RESTORE.BAT builds a DEBUG script file that
changes that byte on the fly. The only minor drawback is
that the Top Score file for that pilot & type will end up
temporarily out of sync score-wise. Once your pilot has been
flown and has scored some points the game program will self
correct this difference. If you have NORTON UTILITIES and
know how to use the DISK EDITOR(DE) it is easy to correct
this on your own. To use RESTORE.BAT you need to supply the
entire filename of the pilot to be modified and a two byte
code signifying the status you want to appear in the file.
EXAMPLE: RESTORE TESSLER.RAF 00 - to restore to ACTIVE
" " " 01 - to force GROUNDED
" " " 02 - to force CAPTURED
That's all there is to it. It does the rest by itself. Since
I currently find myself in the odious position of being
forced to learn *UGH* Assembler I am going to try to write a
full scale editor for the BOB and SWOTL pilot files. At
least learning *UGH* Assembler may then have been
worthwhile. If I am succesful I will post same on the BBS's
I use and hope they will filter out. If these utilities are
useful to you a small donation of $5.00 to continue to stir
my creativity would be greatly appreciated. If anyone knows
of an editor for BOB or SWOTL I would love to know where to
find it. I have heard they are out there amongst the
freeware and shareware, but have not yet found them.
Donations and/or questions and/or contact to:
Marc Tessler
408 W. Pontiac Dr. #7
Phoenix, AZ 85027
602-870-1951
P.S.- I have also included an experienced pilot of each type
to use as wingman in tough missions. Also, I've thrown in a
few simple missions I designed as examples. The cakewalk
mission ONEONONE.FLT can be used to get a pilot going, or to
let the kids play if you let them near your computer. If one
of the experienced pilots gets bounced and ends up KIA you
can just restore them from the backup copies I've provided.
EXAMPLE: COPY NAME.BAK NAME.??? (Where ??? is .RAF, .109,
.J87, .BMB)
To install these files to your BOB directory just "copy *.*"
to \BOB1940. Good Luck and happy flying, Ace!
P.S.S.- Anyone out there want to play KNIGHTS OF THE SKY by
modem? If so, you can contact me at the above phone number.
All Files & Documentation copyright (c)1992 Marc A. Tessler