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- Motor City Software
- Thinker Version 1.0
- Copyright 1991 by Motor City Software
- All rights reserved
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- │░░░░░░ LICENSING INFORMATION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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- This program is not Freeware. This is SHAREWARE which means it is user-
- supported software. If you use this program for more than 30 days, you are
- required to register or remove it from your system. The registration fee is
- a mere $10.00 and is not a lot to ask.
-
- The concept works only with your support. If you find that you can use this
- program, then a registration fee of $10.00 U.S. funds will help defray the
- development cost and encourage the authorship of other programs that might be
- useful to you. A Registration Form for this purpose is included with the
- distribution archive and is called THINKREG.DOC.
-
- Thinker is Copyrighted 1991 by Motor City Software and all rights are
- reserved. You may copy this program and documentation for backup purposes.
- You also may copy and share UNMODIFIED copies of the program package,
- providing that the copyright notice is reproduced and included on all copies.
-
- You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute the product
- along with other products without expressed written permission from Motor
- City Software, nor may you modify or remove the Copyright Notice from the
- program or the documentation.
-
- Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome. If you have any, you
- should contact one of the Motor City Software Support Systems listed below.
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- System Name | Location | Sysop Name |Phone Number |Fido Node
- -------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------|---------
- Motor City BBS | Oshawa, Ontario | Rod Hancock |416-579-6318 |1:229/418
- Compro Systems | Bowmanville, Ont. | Jeff Wilson |416-623-5148 |1:229/414
- The Chancellors Den| Faversham Kent, UK| Dennis Bennet |44-795-538359|2:254/92
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- If you're reporting a bug, please give as much detail as possible about the
- problem you are experiencing so that it can be duplicated and fixed.
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- │░░░░░░ INTRODUCTION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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- Thinker is a fun, simple game which challenges you to achieve the highest
- monthly score possible. This game is similar to the game of "Concentration"
- as seen on television.
-
- The object of the game is to be the highest scoring player at the end
- of the month. This is accomplished by matching pairs of cards on a
- 4 X 13-card grid.
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- You will start with 0 points at the beginning of each month. When you
- enter the game, the game board is drawn on your screen. The game board
- consists of header information, and a 4 X 13 grid which holds 52 playing
- cards.
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- To begin a game, select <P>lay. A 52-card deck is then shuffled and
- dealt. You will also notice some information in the upper-right corner
- of your screen, such as Maximum Misses and your Miss Count.
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- The object of game play is to select pairs of matching cards until the
- game board is cleared. Once selected, each card is turned face-up. If the
- two cards you select match, you gain 100 points and the cards are cleared
- from the board. If you manage to clear the entire board, you will be
- awarded a bonus of 5,000 points.
-
- To select cards, make sure that your NUM LOCK is turned on. Then, using
- the numeric keypad, move the cursor left, right, up or down until the
- cursor is directly above the card you wish to select. Then press <ENTER>
- to select that card.
-
- Each time you select two cards that do NOT match, your Miss Count is
- incremented by 1. You may accumulate a maximum of 5 consecutive misses
- before the game is ended. Each time you select a matching pair of cards,
- your Miss Count is reset to 0.
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- At the end of each month, play is ended and the top-three scorers for the
- month are displayed to players during the following month. The player
- file is removed and the game starts over.
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- │░░░░░░ INSTALLATION ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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- Thinker runs great as a type 7 door on RemoteAccess and QuickBBS. All file
- I/O uses record locking and this door will run fine on two nodes
- simultaneously. All you need to do is pass one to three command line
- parameters.
-
- These are:
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- - The maximum number of games a player may play per day. This should be a
- value between 1 and 10. If it's not, it will default to 2.
-
- - A valid path to DORINFO1.DEF or DOOR.SYS (i.e. C:\RA\).
-
- - A /D as the last parameter, tells Thinker to use either a RemoteAccess
- or PCBoard DOOR.SYS file.
-
- Examples:
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- THINKER.EXE 7 C:\RA\ 7 rounds per day.
- DORINFO1.DEF can be found in C:\RA\ directory.
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- THINKER.EXE C:\RA\ 5 rounds per day (default).
- DORINFO1.DEF can be found in C:\RA\ directory.
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- THINKER.EXE 10 C:\RA\ /D 10 rounds per day.
- DOOR.SYS can be found in C:\RA\ directory.
- Use DOOR.SYS instead of DORINFO1.DEF. No need to
- worry about the format. Thinker will
- automatically determine if a RemoteAccess or
- PCBoard DOOR.SYS is being used.
-
- NOTE: If you are running this program under PCBoard, you may have to load
- a FOSSIL driver from a batch file before the game is run, and unload
- it when the game is finished and before control is returned to the
- BBS.
-
- Thinker can be run in the BBS system directory or in a directory of its own.
- If you use a separate subdirectory, you will need to use a batch file.
-
- Here is an example type 7 batch file:
-
- Type 7 command line:
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- *C /c \RA\GOTHINK.BAT
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- GOTHINK.BAT:
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- Cd \RA\THINK
- THINKER 7 \RA\
- Cd \RA
-
- Or, if you are running Thinker from the BBS system directory, no batch file
- is needed:
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- Type 7 command line:
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- THINKER.EXE 10 \RA\
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- That's all there is to installing the Thinker door. There is no setup program
- needed.
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- The following is a list of files related to the operation of this program.
- It is noted whether or not the file is absolutely required in order for the
- program to run.
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- Filename Required Description
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- THINKER.NEW No Program revision history. Be sure to read!
- THINKER.EXE Yes The main progam executable.
- THINKER.ANS Yes The game board graphic. (color graphics)
- THINKER.ASC Yes The game board graphic (mono graphics)
- MCT.ANS Yes The Motor City Thinker graphic (color graphics).
- MCT.ASC Yes The Motor City Thinker graphic (mono graphics).
- THINKER.HLP Yes Help file.
- THINKER.DOC No This documentation.
- THINKER.DTE No This is a date file. This is used to determine
- when the end of month has been reached.
- THINKER.HSC No This file contains the last month's high scorer
- statistics.
- THINKER.DAT No This is the player data file. If it does not
- exist, it will be created.
- THINKER.LOG No This file is created if Thinker encounters an
- during operations. If this file exists, it is
- intended for your viewing pleasure.
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