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Story:
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`8The village has just had an Earthquake! people are scurying to repair
`8the buildings. A lot was damaged, and a few people were injured.
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DISCLAIMER
(gotta have it!)
The author of Earthquake Lord has taken every precaution to insure that no
harm or damage will occur on computer systems operating the Earthquake Lord
add-on package. Actually, its practically impossible for this program
to do any harm since its just plain TEXT files! But, since this is
a BETA copy, there will probably be some bugs in it! If you encounter
any bugs or problems, please call to my BBS and leave the me a message
and explain the problem. Oh yeah, one last note, if in any way for any
reason this causes any damages to any hardware/software, I take no
responsibity. But dont worry! Its improbable that anything will go wrong!
LICENSE AGREEMENT
(cant forget this!)
The Earthquake Lord add-on program, installation and uninstallation
programs, and documentation are copyrighted products of LD Software
and Jason Peterson. Jason Peterson reserves all rights to these products.
This is protected by the United States of America (USA) and
International Copyright Laws. In no way shall Earthquake Lord be reproduced
or modified in any form or method without prior written permission
from Jason Peterson. No fee may be charged by any agency other than
Jason Peterson or LD Software beyond the cost of a disk, CD-ROM, or BBS
membership plan without written permission from Jason Peterson.
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1. About Earthquake Lord (isn't that always the first page?)
2. Installation Instructions
3. Updates
4. Questions
5. How to contact the Author
6. Registering Earthquake Lord
7. Technical junk (Future add-ons)
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*** 1. About Earthquake Lord ***
Have you ever started playing LORD (Legend Of the Red Dragon), either
locally or on a BBS and think, besides getting killed by John Doe today
its still the same thing! You use up your forest fights, kill a few
people, (if available) go to Other places and try to get a little further.
I am not putting LORD down or anything, but most boards have the default
of 10 heroic deeds set up to finish the game! If you noticed, it could
take a couple of months just to do 1 heroic deed! So, to actually finish
the game, it could take well over a year and 1/2! I dont know if its just
me, but I like to finish games within 2 months!
Most people like to have friends in the realm so they cant kill a lot
of people! Well, I am one of those people that trys to kill that guy that
is 3 levels higher than me! Now, thats when I started realizing that if
I saved up my money and killed that guy, I would get a LOT of experience!
Thats the MAIN reason I decided to write this program! First, it gives
LORD a totally new look, the menus are more colorful and I think they
look a lot more attractive! The second reason, the storyline of this game
puts all the players in a FLOOD. This will change only little things
This will not touch the LORD.EXE, besides its illegal for me to do that..
!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!
In order for this to work, you must set up an event to delete earth1.dat and
rename earth2.dat to earth1.dat, then run the install again. This only has
to run once. ONLY after the EARTH1.DAT file has been online for one day...
What this does is, EARTH1.DAT is the day the Earthquake happens, then EARTH2.
DAT is a few days after the earthquake.. so you should be able to see why
EARTH1.DAT has to come before EARTH2.DAT.. Any questions? Write me..
*** 2. Installation Instructions ***
Installing Earthquake Lord should be a simple process since all it does is
it renames your current and lordtxt.dat files to
lordtxt.old.
-=-=Batch Installation=-=-
To use the batch files for installation simply extract the
contents of the zip file to any directory (you probably already
did that!) Run the file INSTALL.BAT with a parameter of where
your LORD is installed.
*Example*
INSTALL.BAT C:\LORD
Its that easy! To Uninstall simply move to your LORD directory
at the DOS prompt and type UNINSTAL.BAT (or UNINSTAL).
But please note, if you haven't already installed Earthquake Lord before
running this file, you will lose a few files LORD needs to run!
** If for some reason you did run the Uninstall program first, here
** is how you fix it...
** You must have your original Lord zip file to fix this problem!
** Inside of the lord.zip file you will find the two files that you
** are missing. Look for lenemy.dat and lordtxt.dat. Ok, extract or
** move them to your lord directory and its all fixed up!
** Of course, who is dumb enough to run the uninstall program first? =)
-=-=Manual Installation=-=-
If for some reason you need to do a manual installation here is how...
Go to your LORD directory and rename the following files...
lordtxt.dat to lordtxt.old
Now, rename wartext.dat to lordtxt.dat
Ok, now move both of them files to your LORD directory and its all
set up!
*** 3. Updates ***
If you would like to recieve updates of this program, see 6. Registering
Earthquake Lord later in this file...
I plan to update all monsters, screens, and so on in the near future...
The screens are all finished now, but I have more ideas to add to them!
There are no monsters complete so far, I can't figure out how to put them
in the LENEMY.DAT file, so I hope to get some monsters in here also...
*** 4. Questions ***
--= I thought this program was FREEWARE, why would I register it? =--
** Yes, this program is FREEWARE, you dont have to send me a cent **
** to use it! But I took a lot of my time to write this program **
** so you and your callers could enjoy it! If everyone would send **
** me some spare change, it would make me want to add more and **
** more to my program, and possibly write more programs. **
** Like I said earlier, I WILL add more if a few people register! **
--= What do I get if I register? =--
** Well, the main thing you get is knowing that you helped another **
** person out by making his hard spent time worth something! **
** But, thats probably not enough, so you also get all newer **
** versions, by E-Mail, and you will get added to my mailing list **
** for all new programs I write in the future. (Shareware, or **
** FREEWARE only! I cant give you ALL my registered programs!) **
--= Where do I send my registration money? =--
** See chapter 6 for more information on registering **
*** 5. How to contact the author ***
You can contact me, Jason Peterson in the following ways...
I call a lot of BBS's in Delaware and other states, here are the most
frequent ones I call and their numbers...
Highway To Fun 302-674-1843
The Other Realm 302-284-0831
Mystical Tower (I'm SysOp) 302-422-6481
Country Cabin (Don't Call much but I'm there..) 302-284-9438
Dark Side (Seth's BBS 503-838-6171
The Borg (LordNet Support Site) 615-368-7003
The Buther's Shoppe (LordNet Host) 706-563-7494
Or you can contact me via snail mail at...
Earthquake Lord
c/o Jason Peterson
653 Milford Harrington Hwy.
Milford, DE 19963
*** 1. Registering Earthquake Lord ***
Ok, you are probably thinking "I thought this was a FREEWARE program"!!!
Well, it is, you dont have to send me 1 cent!
But I took a lot of my time to write this program so you and your callers
could enjoy it! If everyone would send me some spare change, it would make
me want to add more and more to my program, and possible write more programs.
Like I said earlier, I WILL add more if a few people register!
Another benefit of registering is you will get ALL newer updated versions!
You will get the newest version before it is available for download
on BBS's. You will also get the satisfaction of knowing that I
will take all donations and put them to my future of programming! I am saving
up for C++ or Turbo Pascal as we speak. I then realized that my life was meant
for programming and making people happy with my programs, so I decided to
start with this little program! Its not a programmed program, but it did take
me a long time to create! Anyway, sorry about blabbing on about my life...
Here is my address to send any donations to. If you dont want to send
anything, I understand! You are too greedy to send that $3 or $4 dollars
from your pocket! Just kidding... Send any ammount to....
Once again, thanx for BETA testing my program for me! - Jason Peterson
Earthquake Lord
c/o Jason Peterson
653 Milford Harrinton Hwy.
Milford, DE 19963
** 7. Technical Junk **
(Future LORDTXT.DAT add-ons !)
Time Lord - You are a business man in the 21st century, and on night you have
a dream of going back in time to the darkages to fight mid-evil
villians, and dragons. You wake up a suddenly find that you have
been transported back in time, is it real? or is just an elaborate
dream?
Spring Lord - It's spring time, Violet is in heat <G>, and everybody is in the
duledrums because it is almost time for the Red Dragon to come
out of hibernation...
Wet Lord v2.0 - Fix or modify the v1.0 of the first WET LORD.
Future Lord - You wake up from you cot, in the INN, one morning with a spliting
headache, and when you head outside you find that everything is
now all futuristic. Is it a dream? Or is it real?
Lord Plaque - A plaque has come over the village and it is killing all of the
people in the village. Rumor has it, that the dragon brought it
over from some other village on one of it's rampages. Almost no
one is in fighting condition, expecally after the dragon attack
from a few nights before. It is your mission to kill the dragon,
and hopefully stop the plaque.
SkyLord - Live amoungist the clouds.
RainForest Lord - Live in the rain forest with natives and kill jungle animals
Egypt Lord - Live in Egypt, visit Pyramids, kill sand monsters
Atlantis Lord - Live on the lost continent of Atlantis
Prehistoric Lord - Dinosaurs everywhere.
Modern Lord - Lord for the 90's
Power Ranger Lord <Very Big Grin> - Kill all those damn rangers!
Costom Lord (SysOps/CoSysOps only) I'll costomize your LORD from the BBS name.
Underwater Lord - Name Explains it all..
Space Lord - Name just about explains it..
Moon Lord - Lord on the Moon? Are you crazy??!?! Simply put.. YES!
Mars Lord - Almost same thing a Moon Lord but on Mars
Coputer Lord - A computer Lord.. Robots, etc..
Volcano Lord - Lord after a Volcano eruption..
Earthquake Lord - 2.0 Fix or modify original Earthquake Lord
Any other ideas? Send me mail on any of the BBSes listed above..