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- S l o t s O n l i n e by Benjamin Kuo Silver Yucca Software
- documentation 3419 East 7590 South
- version 1.00 07/22/92 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121
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- INTRODUCTION:
- Welcome to Slots Online! This is a simple slot machine simulation
- program for Second Sight, Red Ryder Host, WWIV, and Mansion bulletin
- board programs, which allows your users to play a simulated slot
- machine and compete to see who can get the top slots score.
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- Slots is significantly loaded toward the user. If anyone has any
- particular odds they'd like for certain patterns, or their own set,
- simply give me the odds for each pattern, the payoff, what screen
- they'd like displayed, any other comments, or whatever and I'd be
- happy to make a custom Slots door for your bbs.
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- INSTALLATION:
- The steps to installation are simple. Follow the steps outlined below:
- • Using the New Folder menu choice in the Finder, or an equivalent,
- create a folder for the Slots support files.
- • Copy the Slots application to the same folder as your
- bulletin board.
- • In your host bbs application, set up a menu choice where you want
- to run an external application, in this case Slots. In Red
- Ryder Host this is done with MenuEdit (for more in-detail help,
- please refer to your Host manual). In Mansion, this is done
- through the built-in menu editor. In the WWIV system, pressing
- the proper key while waiting for a call will bring you to the
- external application setup.
- • Run your bulletin board, and launch Slots This will allow
- you to enter the correct pathnames via a dialog box, as well as
- giving you the option of a log file or no log file (marking when
- people have entered or exited Slots). Setup and running the
- application work ONLY if you launch from your bulletin board
- application, otherwise Slots does not find the "Launch BBS"
- or corresponding file (depending on which bbs program you are
- using) that it requires to work correctly. If you need to re-
- configure the Slots data after moving your bbs application or
- the folders, it is easiest to open your System Folder and drag
- the "Slots Options" file to the trash.
- • Quit from Slots and your bulletin board will now be able to
- run the external door.
- OTHER INFO:
- If you are running under multifinder, select the "No Local Echo" in the
- sysop menus, and the window will not appear.
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- The program creates a "Slots Scores" text file which you can use
- as a routinely updated text file for display in Red Ryder Host, WWIV,
- or Mansion as a standard text file. It exists in the Slots path
- you have designated.
-
- BUG FIX HISTORY:
- 07/22/92 Initial Release.
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- SHAREWARE FEES:
- As a reminder, THIS IS SHAREWARE. I know how you don't like to spend
- too much money running an expensive phone line, board software, and
- occupying a mac all day, but I consider bulletin board sysops to be of
- a higher nature than most users. Which means (if you haven't already)
- you will find it in your hearts to send me (Benjamin Kuo, write that
- name on the check, please), a lousy $10.
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- The author reserves all rights to the program. Local
- bulletin boards may distribute this program with the documentation, in
- StuffIt format, freely, providing that they do not gain any renumeration
- besides the operating costs. This program may not be distributed with any
- commercial software without the author's written permission. User groups
- are free to distribute the program in monthly disks and to include the
- program on any CD-ROM (such as BMUG's PD-ROM) or public domain library,
- as long as there is no charge beyond costs of media. Public domain
- distribution companies, including EDUCOMP, PD•EXCHANGE, and so-called
- "National User Groups" MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE or SELL this program in any way,
- without the express written permission of the author.
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