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- The "Arena Warrior" Door Game
- Copyright 1991 by Greg Hartle and Trevor Parks, all rights reserved
- Version 1.0
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- Designed by:
- Greg Hartle
- and
- Trevor Parks
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- Programmed by:
- Greg Hartle
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- Documentation by:
- Trevor Parks
- and
- Greg Hartle
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- Some ideas and concepts by:
- Mark Barrow
- Speaker
- Chaz Pearson
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- Also a special thanks to the beta testers:
- Mark Barrow of Warrior Realm BBS
- Ken Givens of The Chess Board (FidoNet 1:124/2213)
- James Falkner of The Abyss (FidoNet 1:363/73)
- Danny Brown of Skydive Over Texas (FidoNet 1:382/64)
- Richard Cavin of Pretzel Logic BBS (FidoNet 1:387/401)
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- And of course all the Twilight Zone III and Warrior Realm BBS users.
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- The authors of this program are in no way responsible
- for any damages (physically or mentally, financially or in any
- other way, shape or form) caused by the use, misuse, abuse,
- and/or non-use of this program.
-
- Basically, the only guarantee we give you about the
- operation of this program is that it works (most of the time)
- on our computers. It might on yours (who knows, anything's
- possible!).
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- If it does happen to work on your system and after a
- one month trial period you want to continue using this program,
- you must register the program with the authors. Refer to the
- sysop documentation (SYSOP.DOC) for further information.
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- Arena Warrior was written to run as a QuickBBS door,
- although it may also be run standalone and on any other board
- that uses DORINFO1.DEF for passing user information. This door
- uses a FOSSIL driver for all input/output. If you haven't
- already, you will need to install a FOSSIL, such as X00,
- OpusComm, BNU, etc.
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- Please print out the SYSOP.DOC file and read the
- registration, licensing, and warranty information before you
- begin installing Arena. SYSOP.DOC is formatted with page
- breaks where appropriate. Print it by typing the following at
- the DOS prompt:
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- TYPE SYSOP.DOC >LPT1
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- Installation of Arena Warrior is relatively simple.
- Unarchive ARENA.EXE, REGISTER.EXE, FORGET.EXE, ARENA.DOC,
- HELP.TXT, CONFIG.TXT, and REFS.TXT and place them in their own
- directory. Using a text editor, read and edit CONFIG.TXT as
- you like. Also edit REFS.TXT to give yourself and anyone else
- referee (sysop) access in the game. On each line, type a
- user's full name in all caps.
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- Now we're ready to initialize the game. Run ARENA with
- the parameter "@". (i.e. type "ARENA @" from the DOS prompt.)
- This should take just a few seconds, while CONFIG.DAT,
- TEAM.DAT, CHAR.DAT, and BASH.DAT are created and any old game
- data files are deleted.
-
- You now need to create a batch file to run the game.
- It should look something like this:
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- +-----------+
- | ARENA.BAT |
- +-----------+-----------------+
- | cd\quickbbs\door\arena |
- | copy \quickbbs\dorinfo1.def |
- | arena |
- | cd\quickbbs |
- +-----------------------------+
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- Note that the DORINFO1.DEF must be in the same
- directory as the program, and that all game-related data files
- must be in the same directory.
-
- If you are running Arena Warrior as a standalone game,
- you still need a FOSSIL driver (mentioned above), but you don't
- need the DORINFO1.DEF file. When you run Arena, you will be
- asked who you are. You must type your name exactly the same on
- subsequent entry to the game, or you will be considered a new
- player.
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- Maintenance is automatically run when needed. If a
- player enters the game and the game turn has just ended, ARENA
- will do maintenance before letting the user play. If you'd
- rather maintenance be done while no user is on, you can (in
- your daily maint batch routine) change directories to Arena and
- then run "ARENA !". Nothing will be done and the program will
- immediately exit if the turn is not yet over.
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- Also, users who haven't played in one month's time
- will be deleted during maintenance. You may manually delete
- users sooner with a referee command in the game.
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- Please read SYSOP.DOC for more info about the game.
- Any questions? Send messages to either Trevor Parks or Greg
- Hartle at:
-
- Twilight Zone III
- Data: (915)658-2603
- 2400bps (soon to be 14400bps DS V32bis/CSP)
- Fidonet 1:383/3
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