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Q-Seven - 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
Q-Seven - User documentation -(1)- March 10, 1996
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│░░░░░░ LICENSING INFORMATION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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This is a licence agreement between you, the end user, and SoftNet
Q-Seven, 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 Q-Seven.
You acknowledge and agree that Q-Seven 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 Q-Seven are and shall remain with SoftNet
Q-Seven 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 Q-Seven, or remove
it from your system. Registration entitles you to use Q-Seven and
any future versions of Q-Seven 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 Q-Seven 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.
Q-Seven 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
Q-Seven will occupy disk space.
SoftNet liability resulting from your use or inability to use
Q-Seven is limited to the amount that the affected party has paid
for it, or in the event that Q-Seven 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, Q-Seven. You may freely distribute and copy
Q-Seven provided that no fee is charged and the Q-Seven 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 Q-Seven is levied
No part of Q-Seven 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
Q-Seven - User documentation -(2)- March 10, 1996
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│░░░░░░ INTRODUCTION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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Q-Seven is an online ANSI graphics "Over and Under" game
for QuickBBS and RemoteAccess BBS.
This version supports QuickBBS V2.80, and RemoteAccess V1.1x,
and 2.xx
It allows users to gamble their time remaining while online.
The program is pretty straight forward and and easy to install.
It does require ANSI graphics to be turned ON by the user and does
require the DOS ANSI.SYS driver to be installed on the host computer.
If a caller tries to run Q-Seven and does not have graphics turned
on, the program will notify the user that graphics are required. It
will then return control to the BBS.
Q-Seven allows the BBS Sysop to define the maximum number of
turns allowed per user, per day as well as the maximum number of
minutes a user may accumulate while in the game. Once a user has
reached a maximum number of accumulative minutes, the user is not
allowed to access the game until the next day. Once a user has
reached the maximum number of turns per day Q-Seven will not allow
the user to take any more turns.
Q-Seven - User documentation -(3)- March 10, 1996
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Q-Seven is easy to install. A type 7 menu entry may be used,
as follows:
Optional Data : D:\BBS\DOORS\Q7\QSEVEN.EXE 2 100 100 /N*N
Commandline Parameters:
QSEVEN <coin_value> <max_mins> <max_turns> [/Bbank_path] [/Wn] [/Nn]
Where - Coin_value is a number from 1 to 10. This tells Q-Seven
the value of a coin in minutes. For example, if you enter
a value of 2, each coin will have a value of 2 minutes.
I have found that a value of 2 works well.
- Max_mins is a number from 1 to 1000. This tells Q-Seven
the maximum number of minutes a user can win while in the
program. This includes the user's current time plus any
winnings accumulated during play. If a user meets or exceeds
this number, the user will be congratulated and politely asked
to try again tomorrow. The user will not be allowed access to
Q-Seven until the next day.
NOTE: This number will include the time the user already has.
If this was set to 100 and the user had 99 minutes when he
entered the program, he would be allowed to win only one minute.
- Max_turns is a number from 1 to 1000. This tells Q-Seven
the maximum number of turns a player may take per day. If
this number is reached, the user will not be allowed to take
any more turns.
Q-Seven - User documentation -(4)- March 10, 1996
Installation Continued.
- /B tells Q-Seven that you wish to use time banking supprt.
What this means is that if a player is in Q-Seven and wins
an amount of time that would overstep a system event, Q-Seven
will create a file called THEBANK.EXT. This file would then
contain the user's name and the number of minutes to
automatically deposit in the user's time bank account.
For example, if there is a system event in 60 minutes and the
player wins 80 minutes Q-Seven will give the player 60 minutes
of winnings and automatically bank the rest (20 minutes).
You may also supply a path to where THEBANK.EXT file will be
created. For example, /Bc:\bbs would cause THEBANK.EXT
file to be created in the BBS directory on drive C:. Note that
there is no space between the /B and the path.
See your Time Bank utility documentation to see if it supports
this file or download the latest version of RATS ( RATS300.ZIP )
from any SoftNet Support site!
- /W tells Q-Seven the maximum number of coins a player may
wager per turn. This may be a value from 1 to 999 and will
default to 10 if not specified.
- /Nn allows you to pass the node number to QSeven. This is used
for the logfiles, and the Status Bar on the screen.
Q-Seven - User documentation -(5)- March 10, 1996
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The Q-Seven archive comes with a few files needed by the program.
You can run Q-Seven from any directory. It looks for the ExitInfo.BBS
and the Dorinfo1.Def in the current directory, and reads all of its
own files from the directory containing the .EXE file.
The files that come with the archive are:
QSEVEN.EXE This is the program
QSEVEN.ANS This is the formatted graphic used
QSEVEN.ASC This is the non-color graphic used
QSEVEN.HLP This is a formatted help file
QSEVEN.DOC This document
NOTE: Do not edit or change the contents of QSEVEN.ANS, QSEVEN.ASC
or QSEVEN.HLP. These files are formatted specifically for the
program.
In addition to these files, Q-Seven also creates and maintains
some files it needs to operate. These are:
QSEVEN.DTE Julian date file. Erase this file if
you need to reset the game that day.
QSEVEN.USR List of users who have reached a daily
limit and are not allowed to play again
that day.
QSEVEN.TRN This keeps track of the user turn counts
for the day.
QSEVEN.LOG This is the player log. It is a circular
text file which tracks the last 15 players
and how they did.
THEBANK.EXT External time bank utility file. This
file is created and maintained by Q-Seven
and is read by Rats v1.01 and later.
Do not delete this file. The Bank will
delete it each time it has read it.
Q7_##.ERR Reference to any run time errors that
might occur. ## is replaced by the node
number.
Q-Seven - User documentation -(6)- March 10, 1996
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When The Bank is run and locates THEBANK.EXT, it will read it
through to the end of the file updating or adding user accounts as
needed. The format of THEBANK.EXT is: User Name:Time
For example, if JOHN DOE wins 80 minutes and Q-Seven deposits
20 minutes into his account, the following line will be appended
to THEBANK.EXT:
JOHN DOE:20
A user's name can appear in this file more than once. The Bank
will handle it properly. For more details, see Rats 1.01 or later.
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Q-Seven also allows the Sysop to plug his/her BBS by displaying
a file called QSEVEN.TXT, if it exists. So, if there's a message
you'd like to display before Q-Seven draws it's screen, just create
an ASCII text file called QSEVEN.TXT and put it in the same directory
as Q-Seven and it will be displayed.
Sysop function keys:
[ALT]-[C] : Chat with word wrap.
[ESC] to quit chat.
[ALT]-[H] : Hang up on user.
[ALT]-[J] : Jump to DOS.
[ALT]-[T] : Unconditionally return user to BBS.
Up Arrow : Increase users time by 2 minutes.
Down Arrow : Decrease users time by 2 minutes.
Q-Seven - User documentation -(7)- March 10, 1996