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SoftNet Card Guppies
Version 1.0
Copyright 1995 - 1996 SoftNet
All Rights Reserved
Co-Owners' of SoftNet
David Smart Peter Kling
Space Station Info System Technology, Inc.
FidoNet: 1:324/285 1:374/169
Phone BBS/FAX: 1-508-454-0356 1-407-729-9166
Guppies - User documentation -(1)- March 10, 1996
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│░░░░░░ LICENSING INFORMATION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
╘════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛
This is a licence agreement between you, the end user, and SoftNet
Card Guppies, including any Screen, Executable, documentation, etc are
the property of SoftNet. Please read the terms and conditions of this
licence agreement carefully before using the software. If you for any
reason, whatsoever, cannot accept the conditions in this agreement,
you are not permitted to use Card Guppies.
You acknowledge and agree that Card Guppies is a proprietary product
of SoftNet protected by applicable copyright laws and international treaty
provisions. You further acknowledge and agree that all rights, title,
and interest in, and to Card Guppies are and shall remain with SoftNet
Card Guppies may be used for a period of thirty (30) days on a trial
basis to allow you to determine its suitability for your particular
application. After this period you MUST register Card Guppies, or remove
it from your system. Registration entitles you to use Card Guppies and
any future versions of Card Guppies for as long as you wish, subject
to any special licensing conditions and/or applicable upgrade fees
attached to future versions.
In the event that you are in violation of this licence agreement,
you agree and accept that SoftNet may cancel your registration and
any rights to use Card Guppies that you may have. In the case of a
dispute over the licence agreement, you further agree and accept to
fully reimburse SoftNet for legal and other expenses resulting from
the dispute.
Card Guppies is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, or
fitness for a particular purpose, either expressed or implied, all
of are hereby explicitly disclaimed. SoftNet only guarantees that
Card Guppies will occupy disk space.
SoftNet liability resulting from your use or inability to use
Card Guppies is limited to the amount that the affected party has paid
for it, or in the event that Card Guppies was registered with a third
party for payment to SoftNet, liability is limited to the amount
that was received by SoftNet from that third party.
Neither SoftNet nor any of its employees, agents, or other
representatives are in any way obligated to provide future versions
of, or support for, Card Guppies. You may freely distribute and copy
Card Guppies provided that no fee is charged and the Card Guppies
distribution archive contains unmodified copies of the original files
as produced by SoftNet Pay Bulletin Board Systems may, however, charge
their normal fee provided that no additional charge for Card Guppies is
levied No part of Card Guppies may be modified, altered, reverse
engineered, sold, or distributed in any form what so ever which would
involve some sort of trade without prior written permission from SoftNet
Guppies - User documentation -(2)- March 10, 1996
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│░░░░░░ INTRODUCTION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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SoftNet Card Guppies is a fun, simple game which challenges you
to achieve the highest monthly score possible.
The object of the game is to:
A) Be the first player to reach 2,000,000,000 (2 billion) dollars.
or...
B) Be the highest scorer for the month.
A) When a player reaches 2,000,000,000 points (or dollars), the player
is put into the hall of fame for that month. The player is then
considered a winner and can not play until the next month's play
is started. The overall winner is the player who reaches
2,000,000,000 points first.
B) If no one reaches 2,000,000,000 points during the month the player
with the highest score is declared the winner.
You will start with $200 at the beginning of each month. If you
lose all of your money on any given day, your turn is ended for that
day. Then the system will either cash-in one of your banks or restart
you at $200 (if you have no banks) the next day that you play.
To play the game, you wager some or all of your "score", guessing
if the next card that is drawn will be higher or lower than the current
face-up card.
There are three tiers on the game board. Tiers one and two pay off
at 2 to 1 odds and tier three pays off at 3 to 1. You may wager any
amount between $1 and the full amount of your "score" on the first two
tiers. However, on the third tier you are required to wager at least
half of your bankroll.
With each "round" you will begin at the bottom tier. An initial
face-up card is displayed. The trick is to guess if the next card to
be displayed will be higher or lower than the face-up card. So, you
must make a wager. You can do this by either selecting to enter the
amount you wish to wager, or by selecting H to bet half your "score"
or A to bet all of your "score" ACES ARE HIGH and DUECES ARE LOW.
If you "tie", the house will give you back half of your bet.
You are allowed to C>hange one card per tier. For example, if
the current face-up card is an 8 and you so desired you could select
C to exchange the draw pile card for the face-up card.
Each time you get a score of $10,000,000 or more, you will
receive one "bank". Each bank is worth $10,000,000. When a bank
is earned, $10,000,000 is subtracted from your current score. At the
end of the month, the player with the most banks and highest score
is the winner. Banks are considered "history", so they are not readily
cashable. However, if you start a new day with $0 and you have at least
one bank, the system will cash-in a bank for you and adjust your score
accordingly.
Guppies - User documentation -(3)- March 10, 1996
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│░░░░░░ INSTALLATION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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SoftNet Card Guppies runs great as a type 7 door on RemoteAccess
and QuickBBS. All File I/O uses record locking and this door will run
fine on two nodes simultaneously. All you need to do is pass one to
three command line parameters.
These are:
- The maximum number of rounds a player may play per day. This
should be a value between 1 and 10. If it's not, it will default to 5.
- A /D tells Guppies to use a Door.Sys Drop File
- You can pass the node number if you like. This is only used for
the status bar. /N# where # is the node number.
Examples:
GUPPY.EXE 7 7 rounds per day. Node 1. Use Dorinfo1.def
GUPPY.EXE 5 rounds per day (default). Node 1. Use Dorinfo1.def
GUPPY.EXE 10 /D 10 rounds per day.
Use DOOR.SYS instead of DORINFO1.DEF.
GUPPY.EXE /N3 Running on node 3. RA/QBBS allow you to pass this
using *N
NOTE: If you are running this program under PCBoard, you will have
to load a FOSSIL driver from a batch file before the game is
run, and unload it when the game is finished and before control
is returned to the BBS.
Card Guppies can be run in the BBS system directory or in a
directory of its own.
Type 7 command line:
C:\BBS\DOORS\GUPPY\GUPPY.EXE 10 /N*N
That's all there is to installing the Card Guppies door. There
is no setup program needed.
Guppy.exe will read and write its own files in the directory
containing the GUPPY.EXE file. Dorinfo1.def or door.sys will be
read from the current directory.
Guppies - User documentation -(4)- March 10, 1996
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│░░░░░░ SUPPORT FILES ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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The following is a list of files related to the operation of
this program. It is noted whether or not the file is absolutely
required in order for the program to run.
Filename Required Description
------------ -------- ------------------------------------------------
GUPPY.EXE Yes The main progam executable.
GUPPY.ANS Yes The game board graphic.
SNG.ASC Yes The SoftNet Card Guppies graphic.
SNG.ANS Yes The SoftNet Card Guppies graphic.
GUPPY.HLP Yes Help file.
GUPPTURN.TXT Yes Text file explaining end of turn.
WINNER.TXT No Text file displayed to hall-of-famers.
GUPPY.DOC No This documentation.
GUPPY.DTE No This is a date file. This is used to determine
when the end of month has been reached.
GUPPY.HSC No This file contains the last month's high scorer
statistics.
GUPPY.TOP No Contains hall-of-famers for the month.
LASTMON.TOP No Contains hall-of-famers for previous month.
GUPPY.DAT Yes This is the player data file. If it does not
exist, it will be created.
GUPPY.SCR No ASCII text file containing top-15 scores list.
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│░░░░░░ SUPPORT SYSTEMS ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome. If you have
any, you should contact one of the SoftNet Support Systems listed
in the enclosed Support.Doc
If you're reporting a bug, please give as much detail as possible
about the problem you are experiencing so that it can be duplicated
and fixed. Please include the Version of the program and the type of
hardware and software you are running.
Guppies - User documentation -(5)- March 10, 1996