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Version 4.0 ┌─┐ ┌ ┐ ┌─┐─┼─ ┌─ │ ┌─┐ by CoSoft
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└─┴┐└─┘ └─┘ ┴ └─ └─ └─┘
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Improvements over quoteCo version 3.0 ─
■ Super easy to run configuration program added to maintain QUOTECO.INI,
the file that contains all the toggles for quoteCo. Instead of opting
for total WWIV.INI compatibility in this version, a configuration program
was added to make adding/deleting of quoteCo feautes easier.
■ Support for multiple quote files added. This was neccesary because
some people starting complaining when they added quotes, the file was
becoming around 600k large, thus making editors unable to touch such
large files. Now, quoteCo picks a random quote file out of however many
defined (in SETUP).
■ Fancy animation quote display GREATLY enhanced. v3's was _VERY_ buggy,
ugly, and very unsophisticated.
■ Toggable pause before quote.
■ Toggable "funny" case-dependent color shifting in quotes. Adds very smooth
and futuristic look to your BBS.
■ "Randomalities" added to quoteCo. Example, quoteCo will look and act
differently to different users at different times :) .. To some users,
the quote might always be in red, and to some, it will always be in green.
Absolutely _nothing_ in quoteCo is random but the selection of the quote.
If it acts the same way to one user all the time, and differently to another,
there is a reason behind it. It may be that the users alias is more than
5 characters, and quoteCo will check, and just because of that, print
the quote in green or whatever. quoteCo checks for a LOT of things, and
I'm not going to document them in this file. Once you register quoteCo,
I'll send you a printed copy of everything quoteCo checks for and what
the result of it is.
■ Can now run in a different directory rather where WWIV resides.
■ Option to buy the source code.
■ Option to buy a multitude of quote data files.
■ Released under the official "CoSoft" name.
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Why quoteCo and not the other plethora of logon quote programs?
■ 7,800+ super diverse quotes categorized in different quote data files IN
just the unregistered version. You can opt to buy more data files from
CoSoft and expand your library to almost 20,000 quotes.
■ Supports quotes bigger then 1 line, most other quote programs
allow quotes only 50 characters long on one line.
■ Uses raw ANSI versus WWIV heart codes so other BBS softwares can
use quoteCo. (if software will provide com routines)
■ Colorful and not boring - looks like a totally different program every
time its ran.
■ No hassle-prone .INI or .CFG files you have to manually mess with,
SETUP takes care of all of that. Average time spent in SETUP: 15 seconds.
■ Multi-instance aware and compatible.
■ SETUP can be used as a chain for your remote CoSysOp's as well.
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Installation of quoteCo ─
Unzip !!Q-CO4.ZIP in a directory of it's own, or your BBS directory.
Logon Event ─
In INIT, enter this on your "external events/programs" section,
"logon event" line :
"QUOTECO %1"
External Chain (doorgame) ─
In CHAINEDIT, make a program :
Name : quoteCo v4
Command line : \path\QUOTECO %1
DOS intercept : Yes
ANSI req : Yes
If you want SETUP to be used by remote Co-SysOps, :
Name : quoteCo v4 SETUP
Command line : \path\SETUP
Min SL : 100
DOS intercept : Yes
ANSI req : Yes
Everything else is up to you.
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quoteCo data files format/filenames ─
■ quoteCo data files are named QUOTECO.0 to QUOTECO.999
quoteCo will randomly select one file and choose a quote from
there. You must define how many data files you are going to
use in SETUP. If you define 4, you have QUOTECO.0 through QUOTECO.3.
Numeration always starts with 0, not 1.
■ Data file format is :
Every quote starts with a "#" character. Quotes can be several
lines long .. quoteCo will print everything from one "#" to the
next "#". An example of a small QUOTECO.x is shown below :
/* start QUOTECO.0 */
#You've seen one redwood, you've seen em all.
Ronald Regan
#Join PlaNET today! 180 nodes .. e-mail IceNET @4058 (PlaNET NC) for info!
#Why do I have to have an explanation for everything!?!?
Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes"
#No strike, Major Leauge Baseball 1994!
/* end */
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How to register or/and get in touch with the author:
Print ORDER.FRM and fill it out. So far, the quoteCo support products
available are:
Item # Description Price
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QCODAT2 4,500 tagline-type quotes file. $ 6.00
QCODAT3 760 super intellegent quotes + who said it. $ 5.00
QCODAT4 2,799 misc. quotes (3 lines each, average). $ 7.00
QCODAT5 300 or so super cynical quotes + who said it. $ 4.00
QCODAT6 190 Simpson's quotes + episode + who said it. $ 4.00
QCODAT7 1,456 misc. quotes (large quotes to oneliners) $ 5.00
QCODAT8 1,800 tagline-type quote file. $ 3.00
QDATALL All of the above data files. $30.00
QCORAND Printed sheet of all quoteCo's "randomalities". $ 2.50
QCOSRC Source code to quoteCo (excluding SETUP) (TC++) $27.00
QCOSRCS Source code to quoteCo + SETUP (TC++) $34.00
QALL All data files, randomalities, source + SETUP. $60.00
I did ya'll a favor and didn't put the ugly words UNREGISTERED _anywhere_
in the code, I didn't cripple the software.
Once you buy anything relating to quoteCo, you will automatically be
registered as a quoteCo user, and a registration number will be assigned
to you.
.. or, if you just want to contact me, you can 100% guarantee I'll get
the message that night at (internet) :
arsalan.arif@mobrass.mcs.com
I call that site every night .. I don't call many WWIV boards anymore
(due to almost none being here) so WWIVnet addresses aren't a best bet.
If you don't have an internet account, send mail to Midnight at
1@5750 IceNET, TerraNET, PlaNET
1@15750 WWIVLink
.. she is a beta site and a good friend, she'll know what to do. :)
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To come in future releases (hopefully) :
The ability to write to WWIV's daily log.
Phase out the regular display of quotes. Make it so that the fancy display
doesn't require a clear screen, making it much more appealing for everyone.
Add more randomalities.
Make quoteCo totally user definable. Lets the user control it's look
and feel for them and only them.
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Future "Co" products in the works (in my mind or half written) :
light-beamCo - A game for WWIV where you move your light beam
around an arena with another light beam, trying
to stay alive the longest (untouched by the other).
Original idea by the game LITECARS, but I think
I can do it a little better. Already a little
written, not close to finished.
popCo - See how much you can shake up your bottle of
pop, depending on you and the drink you've got,
against other users or the computer. So far
this game has sparked my interest and isn't far
from being done. :) Look for this game soon.
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