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WHAT'S NEW IN v3.3a:
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Hadn't had a chance to test the win game routine as much as I would
have liked to and found a small bug, but an important one. Games
were not always being RESET when the game was won in InterBBS mode.
This is now fixed.
This really sucked too...because *I* was finally the one who won the
game :(
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WHAT'S NEW IN v3.3:
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Fixed a couple of small bugs from v3.2a. When the game was won, the
player's winning score was set back to 100 before being written to
the InterBBS packets being sent out. The new packets will now pass
their NEW score as well as the score they won with.
When a player was attmpting to break into the bank and were caught by
the police, they were sometimes losing more money than they had on
hand, leaving them with a negative amount of money. This has now been
fixed. The police will not be able to take more than the player
actually has now.
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WHAT'S NEW IN v3.2a:
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Did the same thing as in The Quest For Nora. When we added the
additional cheacking for online players, we messed up another
routine. This version will fix that problem. Sorry folks.
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WHAT'S NEW IN v3.2:
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Several small things were changed this time around in v3.2. The "ON"
flag for players online routine has been totally rewritten and should
prove to be very reliable now. Regardless of a dropped carrier,
inactivity timeout, etc.
HRIBBS.EXE has been upgraded even more to handle errors better. Some
folks were experiencing problems when editing their ROUTE.CFG file.
If there was a blank line left in the file, HRIBBS.EXE would report
an ERROR. HRIBBS now ignores any blank lines after the last BBS
entry in the file. I forget sometimes that not everyone is a
programmer or knows how a program reads in a file, and what NOT to
do when editing these files :)
HACKCFG.EXE was updated as well. If someone went into the program
and hit ENTER quickly by mistake, it would default to the Configure
Nodes option. If the user didn't want to do this, they had no way
to get out quickly. Now the user can hit ESCape or use their mouse
to click on another window to get rid of the window in main focus.
If you were planning on getting the HRRUPV10.ZIP archive to upgrade
your HRIBBS.EXE file, don't bother any longer. The upgrade is
included in this archive :)
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WHAT'S NEW IN v3.1:
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Can't say as I am surprised we are here already...This IS the first
outing for InterBBS for Lounge Software and there were bound to be
a few things go wrong in the initial days that it was available to
the general public. I'm not happy about having to upgrade as I'm
sure you're not already :)
Here are some of the things that were fixed up in v3.1:
HRIBBS.EXE was still sending to the BBS that sent the packet.
Meaning, whenever a BBS sent a packet in to the Coordinator, the
Coordinator in turn would create copies of the packet to send to
other BBS's listed, but it would also send the SAME packet BACK to
the BBS that just sent it. This bug is finally squashed for good :)
There is better checking in place for the existence of updates for
HRCONFIG.DAT(HRCxx.DAT) & ROUTE.CFG(HRRxx.CFG) files that get sent
by an HRIBBS UPDATE.
Better ERROR handling routines have been implemented. Like all
things in the BBS world....They don't always go as planned or as
programmed for. If your BBS.CFG file is improperly formatted,
HRIBBS will now tell you and exit. If BBS.CFG or ROUTE.CFG do not
even exist, HRIBBS will now exit properly. ALL errors will also
be written to HRIBBS.ERR if they do happen.
I found another strange one too that was difficult to test for.
At least *I* never thought of this. If say the Coordinator has
run HRIBBS UPDATE and an hour later has to run it again...well,
if there were still HRRxx.CFG or HRCxx.DAT files waiting to be
sent, an error would arise. Now, HRIBBS will check for the
existence of these BEFORE running UPDATE and will automatically
DELETE any old ones, since they will be outdated by the new ones
being created.
ALL ANSI screens have been reworked. I think you will find, even
on the slower systems, the ANSI screens will display MUCH faster
now!
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UPGRADING FROM v3.0 THROUGH v3.3 TO v3.3a:
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Move these files from your main HACKARAMA! directory to a TEMP
directory for now:
NIBBS.DAT <- ONLY if you run in InterBBS Mode
BADWORDS.LST <- ONLY if you have made any changes to the file
Move the HACKVxxx.EXE file into your main HACKARAMA! directory and
run it. When it asks if you would like to overwrite the first file,
answer "A" to overwrite ALL files. This will ensure PROPER upgrading.
If you moved any of the above files, then move them BACK to your
HACKARAMA! directory, overwriting the ones that came with the
archive.
You can delete HACKVxxx.EXE after your done to save space. That's it!
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UPGRADING FROM ANY OTHER VERSION TO v3.3:
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As with the upgrade TO v3.0, simply REINSTALL HACKARAMA! There were
SO many changes from v2.3 to v3.0 that upgrading is not an option.
Just delete what you have now and install this version. See
INSTALL.DOC, HACK.DOC and IBBS.DOC for FULL details.
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Jim Webb
Lounge Software