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- Being a marginally hip card game
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- A Planet >< Programming Production
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- Copyright 1990
- by Tim Kilgore
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- Introduction -
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- Tween is a multi-player door/card game created in the
- spirit of other card-based BBS games. It features a monthly
- tournament and the complete use of the extended IBM character
- set. It also makes extensive use of ANSI cursor relocation.
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- Unlike games molded in the GUPPIES tradition, Tween is
- mischievous, unpredictable nail-biter. The less predictable
- play helps to inspire return players and makes the game a
- greater challenge.
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- Disclaimer -
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- THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED
- "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. FURTHER, THE AUTHOR
- DOES NOT GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE
- USE, OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE, OF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN
- MATERIALS IN TERMS OF CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY,
- CURRENTNESS, OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS
- AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY YOU. YOUR USE
- OR MISUSE OF THIS SOFTWARE INDICATES THAT YOU AGREE AND FULLY
- UNDERSTAND THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.
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- Requirements -
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- You must be running DOS version 3.1 or better in order
- to use Tween. Tween has low memory requirements should
- function if your BBS software shells to other programs.
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- Tween uses FOSSIL calls to monitor the port. You will
- need a FOSSIL driver to use Tween. Popular FOSSIL drivers
- include BNU and X00.
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- Tween recognizes and will read user information from the
- following drop files -
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- DOOR.SYS (GAP, PCB, etc)
- DORINFOx.DEF (RBBS, RA, QBBS, SBBS)
- INFO.BBS (Phoenix R.C.S.)
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- If your BBS system does not produce any of the drop
- files list above, there are a number of conversion programs
- currently on the market that should be able to convert your
- drop file to one of those listed above.
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- Setting It Up -
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- Tween is extremely easy to setup. Create a directory for
- Tween and place all of the files included in the archive into
- it.
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- Tween is invoked as -
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- TWEEN [drop file path & file name]
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- TWEEN c:\ra\dorinfo1.def
- TWEEN c:\phoenix\info.bbs
- TWEEN c:\gap\door.sys
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- The invocation will vary from system to system. In most
- cases, this command will be called from a batch file. Here is
- an example batch file -
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- @echo off
- c:
- cd\tween
- TWEEN c:\ra\dorinfo1.def
- c:
- cd\ra
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- Support -
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- Support for TWEEN can be had at -
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- PLANET ><
- FIDO 1:289/5
- (314) 443-0319
- 9600 baud, Hayes
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- or by writing to -
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- Tim Kilgore
- 2601 S Providence, Lot #40
- Columbia, MO 65203
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- Registration -
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- Tween has a 30 second delay with a display. This display
- will ask your users to give you a hand in registering Tween.
- A BBS is a team effort and rather than putting the ball in
- your hands, Tween puts the burden of registration into the
- hands of the users which is where it belongs. The adopt-a-
- door concept really does work and if you haven't tried it,
- you should.
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- You may use Tween for 60 days or two monthly tournaments
- before you should feel obligated to register. This should
- provide you with ample time to test the game and determine if
- Tween will meet your needs.
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- Should you or your users register Tween, you will
- receive a letter of thanks and your registration information
- in a matter of days.
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- Technical Notes -
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- TWEEN makes extensive use of Hammerly's PROBAS 4.01
- library of machine language subroutines. A great deal of
- Tween's zippy handling comes from these routines.
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- TWEEN was written with MicroSoft's PROFESSIONAL
- DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM version 7.0. This excellent hyper-advanced
- version of BASIC is very nearly as fast as C for handling
- integers and it's string handling is second to none. Is BASIC
- dead? Not hardly!
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- History -
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- In February I decided that I could write doors. Six
- months later, I've decided that authoring a door requires
- more knowledge and dedication than most programming projects.
- It is an excellent learning experience and one that I will
- never regret regardless of the success of the programs that I
- author.
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- Coding on TWEEN began in late September after two months
- of door code development. Versions of TWEEN were distributed
- to beta sites during early October. TWEEN was given a two
- month beta period on six BBS' during which time no serious
- bugs were reported.
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- Thanks for help on a long, long road -
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- I owe a great many people a debt of thanks for
- inspiration, technical information, programming help, and
- just for being there.
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- My beta team, for ripping me to pieces when I needed it.
- These guys know no mercy -
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- Jim Marrs
- Bob R.
- Will Wright
- David Viley
- Terrance O'Hearn
- and Brian Clark
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- For technical support and for being a good sounding
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- Lloyd McKenzie
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- Finally, I probably owe Jack Regan of Moberly, Missouri,
- more than he'll ever know. Jack -gave- me QuickBASIC and by
- giving me this wonderful tool he opened a pandora's box of
- learning and opportunities. Thank's, Jack! I really owe you.
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- Registering -
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- Tween is $10 in U.S. funds. Please make check's and
- money orders payable to -
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- Tim Kilgore
- 2601 S Providence
- Lot #40
- Columbia, MO 65203
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- When registering, please provide the following
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- The name of your BBS
- BBS phone number
- BBS software
- Maximum baud rate
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- Other Programs by Tim Kilgore -
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- o User-Validate 1.0 (UV10.ZIP) NEW!
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- For REMOTE ACCESS only. This is possibly the finest
- call back verification program ever written. Easy
- configuration, dependable operation, and many
- innovations help to make User-Validate you high-tech
- choice for BBS security.
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- o The News At Ten 2.0 (TNAT20.ZIP)
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- Any easy to use system newsletter generator for
- almost any BBS system. TNAT is the first newsletter
- generator that doesn't need an internal editor. The
- result is that you can use your favorite word processor
- with all it's bells and buzzers and still have a
- newsletter. It also provides complete support for your
- BBS' text display control sequences!
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- o RA/QBBS Composite Caller Convertor (RQCCC11.ZIP)
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- For RA/QBBS/SBBS. This easy to use utility creates
- a handsome listing of up to the last thirty callers. It
- also creates a complete, alphabetically SORTED listing
- of all the callers on your BBS. Your users will
- appreciate the readable, attractive displays that RQCCC
- can create.
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- And on the way....
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- The News at Ten version 3.0. TNAT30 will feature 13
- output formats, doorcode, and improved setup features. The
- News At Ten will soon be the -best- system newsletter
- generator available!
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