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.NULL. .NF TRIVIA 2000 TAK Theory .P 0 .HEADER/{{TRIVIA 2000/(C) TAK Theory/Page#}}/ .E 0.0 CONTENTS 0.0 CONTENTS Page 2 0.1 Acknowledgements. 0.2 Dedication. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Page 5 1.1 What is Trivial Pursuit? 1.2 What is TRIVIA 2000? 1.3 What is "TAK Theory"? 2.0 START UP Page 9 2.1 What you MUST have to begin. 2.2 What you SHOULD have to begin. 3.0 PLAYING Page 12 3.1 New or old (frozen) game. 3.2 Number of pies needed to win. 3.3 Setting the number of players. 3.4 Entering player names. 3.5 Setting game default values. 3.6 The play. 4.0 CHANGES Page 21 4.1 Game value editor. 4.11 Spelling errors. 4.12 Delay. 4.13 Nbr of pies needed to win. 4.14 Border color (palette). 4.15 Nbr of answer retries. 4.16 Sound. 4.17 Exit game editor. 4.2 Score editor. 4.21 Win pies. 4.22 Turns. 4.23 Player names. 4.24 Correct answers. 4.25 Retries. 4.26 Overrides. 4.27 Exit score editor. 5.0 QUESTIONS Page 37 5.1 Miscellanious 9.0 FORMS Page xx .E 0.1 Acknowledgements IBM is a trademark of the International Business Machine Corporation. TRIVIAL PURSUIT is a trademark of the Selchow & Righter Company. TRIVIA 2000 is a a copyrighted software product of TAK Theory. .E 0.2 Dedication To Linda Maxwell, wherever she may be. .E 1.0 INTRODUCTION .E 1.1 What is Trivial Pursuit? Trivial Pursuit is an excellent board game marketed by the Selchow & Righter company, the object being to correctly answer trivia questions for an accumulation of "pies", or points. The game is an exciting one, and it can go on for hours depending on the players. It is a "subject" game which spans the world geographically, touching almost every country and covers time from biblical days to the present. The questions are so great in number that there is almose no chance of repeating a question during the span of many games. Of course this is further intricated by six different catagories of subjects per edition. One edition is provided with the game, and addition editions can obtained. The game seems to be enjoyed (or at least, played) the most by "Yuppies", though it seems always well played by elderly people due to their accumulated experience. And of course this is complimented by their ability to recall insignificant facts (trivia). 1.2 What is TRIVIA 2000? Trivia 2000 is an attempt by TAK Theory to simulate the board game of Trivial Pursuit on the IBM Personal Computer and compatables. The idea of Trivial Pursuit on a personnal computer was a natural one. Since the game of Trivial Pursuit seems to be associated with "Yuppies", and "Yuppies" seem to be associated with personnal computers, TRIVIA 2000 was born. By the way, TAK Theory fully recognizes the inventors, designers, the authors and the marketers as being the creators of Trivial Pursuit. TAK Theory in no way means to take any credit away from these fine folks. TAK Theory only wishes credit for the trans- lation and eventual merging of this fine product with the computer. This personal computer simulation variation has all the aspects of the original board game, plus enhancements over and above its predecessor. Placing the game on a personal computer combines high tech with game excitement to put players right into the computer age. Added features are things like the ability to "freeze" games, [in case you do not finish one you wish to restart at a later date], play with less that 2 players [one player can play the game alone], have the ability to make almost any change in the middle of the game, and other niceties. The ability to "freeze" games as mentioned above allows a certain mobility. That is, a game may be transfered from one computer to another, via a floppy disc. A floppy disc is much easier to carry around than the board game! And a game may be stopped and restarted after lunch, or after a nights sleep, or after the weekend camping trip, or after the next full moon, or after... The ability to play the game with from one to six players adds a twist not found in the board game. When one might not be able to find a partner to stay up late one night and play, that person may play him/herself, as in a game of solitare. Having the computer keep score and interagate a players answer to a question relieves the players of the task. Of course, the players can determin things like how many spelling errors to allow within an answer and how many retries [if any] to allow all the players. And these things can be changed at any time during an on-going game or stored in a frozen game. Having the computer maintain the score eliminates the needed for tangable pies [they could get lost, then what would you use]? The score and other game statistics can be accesses [displayed] when needed and/or saved/retrieved in/from a frozen game. The other game statistics are information like how many turns, how many answer retries and how many overrides for each player. Also things like how many pies needed to win, how many spelling errors allow within answers required to get the question correct, computer responce time delay and even back- ground color are stored along with begin changable and freez- able. The computer will notify the players when there is a winner, and offer to stop, freeze or continue the game for the remaining players. The players can choose how many retries to allow all players in case their answer is wrong. This can be changed at any time. The players can choose to override the computers decision of a wrong answer. In fact, an answer may be correct, yet found to be wrong by the computer just by nature of how it is keyed in. If the players want to finish the game, but do not have the time needed, they may change the number of pies needed to win. This number may be from 1 to 6 pies, but never less than the number of pies of the leading player. Other options are discussed later in their appropriate section. .E 1.3 What is "TAK Theory"? "TAK Theory" is an organization dedicated to the production of thought initiating software. .E 2.0 START UP .E 2.1 What you MUST have to begin. You must have an IBM Personal Computer, or compatable with at least 1 Double Sided, Double Density [DS/DD] floppy disc drive, 64k RAM, a monitor, keyboard, and a minimum of MS-DOS 2.1. The game was developed on DOS 2.1 and later upgraded to handle later versions of DOS. The current version will run on DOS 3.0. If you have two floppy disc drives, place your DOS diskette [or one containing COMMAND.COM] in drive A:, and the Trivia 2000 game diskette in drive B:. TAK Theory requires that COMMAND.COM to be available in drive A: when the game terminates [regardless of what the default drive is]. Be sure to always use a working copy of TRIVIA 2000 instead of the master diskette. Should you only have one drive, put a copy of TAK Theory's Trivia 2000 and a copy of COMMAND.COM on a single diskette, and place in drive A:. TAK Theory recommends DOS 3.0, and of course any computing is more interesting with a color monitor! Once you are satisfied that you have all of these things, we are satisfied too...so after a boot, type B:TRIV2000 and the test will begin! .E 2.2 What you SHOULD have to begin. A legitimate copy of Trivia 2000, both the master copy and a working copy for live use. A complete copy of these instructions. A general knowledge of personal computers, specifically the IBM PC or compatable. If you have an IBM PC rather than a compatable, you're in luck! The game is designed to driven totally by function keys [except when actually keying in an answer to a question]. And IBM has convienently placed all the function keys on the left side of the keyboard, making them all accessable to your left hand without having to pick it up. You will notice when the game is brought up that the function keys are labelled on the screen in the same format as they are layed out on the key- board for your convienence. When the player's hand is placed on the function keys, he/she may play the game without having to continually glance down at the keyboard. One additional note. TAK Theory recomends that you always set the system clock when booting up the machine. This will insure a correct date is assigned to your freeze games [should you ever have any]. This will cause the computer to keep track of when the freeze game was actually frozen, instead of your own memory. Also the title block date will be up-to-date. .E 3.0 PLAYING .E 3.1 New or old (frozen) game. If this is a new game, it is not frozen. A frozen game refers to a previous game that was saved to disc prior to shutting down the computer. The "NEW" option should be used. If this, however, is a game that is to be continued from a previous day, you should choose the "FROZEN" option. You will be prompted for the name of the frozen game, so the game knows which one you want to continue. This is the name of a previous game that you were prompted for [and the computer assigned] at an earlyer date. Of course you can re-freeze this game again and again as many times as you wish. Should you enter a frozen game name that does not reside on the diskette, or you mis-type the name, you will be told that the frozen game could not be found. Exit the game and enter a d>DIR to get a directory of all your frozen games. The NEW or FROZEN game as discussed above is the first prompt prior to game execution. Use the Function keys F1 for a new game, or F2 for a frozen game. A new game starts with game defaults and all player scores of zero. A frozen game starts with the frozen values of the previous game and all previous scores (including pie space positioning). F1 " NEW ". A new game starts with game defaults, including all player scores of zero. F2 " FROZEN ". A frozen game starts with the frozen values and scores of that game that was frozen. .E 3.2 Number of pies needed to win. A game can be played with from 1 to six pies needed to win the game. Select the Function key of the number of pies you desire. If you selected the "FROZEN" game option, the number of pies has already been decided based on that game. Thus, you will not be prompted for the number of pies needed to win. .E 3.3 Setting the number of players. A game can be played with from 1 to six players. This is the next prompt after selecting a 'NEW' game. Select the Function key of the number of players you desire. F1 " 1 ". One player. F2 " 2 ". Two players. F3 " 3 ". Three players. F4 " 4 ". Four players. F5 " 5 ". Five players. F6 " 6 ". Six players. If you selected the "FROZEN" game option, the number of players has already been decided based on that game. Thus, you will not be prompted for the number of players. .E 3.4 Entering player names. If this is a new game and you were prompted for the number of game players, you will also be asked if you want to enter the names of players or not. Use the Function keys to answer yes or no to this question. F1 " yes ". You will be asked to key in the player names (however many you selected) at the bottom of the screen. These names will be remembered throughout the game and even frozen if desired. These names may be changed using the score editor to be discussed in a later section. F2 " no ". You will not be asked to enter player names. The game will assign player designators as 'Player 1', 'Player 2', etc. Again, these can be changed using the score editor to be discussed in a later section. If you selected a "FROZEN" game from 3.X above, you will of course not be asked to enter player names. The original game names will be restored from that game. .E 3.5 Setting game default values. At this point all needed information to begin has been entered. You will be given the message 'Ready to begin...' in the message block (at the bottom of the screen), at which time you have the option to begin, or make additional changes to the game config- uration. The main Function-key block will be redisplayed and you may select one of the following actions you desire. F1 " Play ". Play the game, starting with player 1. See section 3.6. F2 "Chg Edtn". Change the current edition. The disk that the game came on contains one of several possible editions. If you have aquired a diskette containing another edition which you would like to use in play, press F2. You then will be asked to place the new edition diskette in the default drive and press return. All game statistics will remain the same, except the new edition will be in play. F3 " Score ". Display the score and other game statis- tics. See section 4.2. F4 " Freeze ". Freeze the current game, as is, and as discussed in section X.X. F5 "New Game". Begin a new game, as if from starting a brand new game from scratch. I the current game has not been saved (frozen) then the game will remind you so, and ask to freeze it. A new game may indeed be a 'new' game, or a frozen game. In the case of a frozen game, see section 3.1 for additional information on frozen games. You will be advised if the game name you enter could not be found on disk. F6 "UnFreeze". Unfreeze an old game. You will be asked for the name of a previously frozen game on the disk. See section 3.1 for some information on frozen games. You will be advised if the game name you enter could not be found on disk. F7 "Chg game". Change current game settings, like win pies, delay, spelling errors, palette, retries, and sound. See section 4.1. F10 " quit ". End the game. If the game has been changed since it was last frozen, you will again be asked if the current game should be frozen. .E 3.6 The play. Once desired game settings and and score modifications have been made, or a frozen game has been unfrozen, play may begin. Play will only begin when the F1 key labeled "play" is depressed, beginning a 'round'. A round is the allowing of all players of the current game a chance to play. A round cannot be interupted until the last player has a chance to play. Game modifications and score edits cannot be made in the middle of a round. Each time a new round is to begin, the F1 key labeled "play" should be pressed. Rounds should continue until there is a winner or the game needs to be stopped (or frozen). If there is a winner, the game may continue with the remaining players. When a round begins, the game will display which player is up. The computer will simulate a roll of the die. With the number it rolls, it will check both forward and backward movement in order to place you on a 'pie space' if possible. If it is your first roll of the game, you can only move forward. You will be notified if you are on a pie space. Next, based on your position, the computer will determin the category of the space you landed on. The computer will in- dicate your category by blinking the appropriate category box. Finally, the computer will randomly select a question from the applicable category and display it. You will be asked to key in the answer below the question. You may take as long as is needed to answer. The computer will analyze the answer you key in and inform you if it matches the correct answer. This is where the number of spelling errors to allow comes into play. Your answer may be correct, but so badly misspelled that the computer could not make it out. Generally, punctuation and leading/trailing spaces will be overlooked. If your answer was correct, you will be advised and then given another roll. If your answer was correct and you were told that you were on a pie space, you will be advised, awarded a pie, and given another roll. If your answer was incorrect, you will be given a chance to display the correct answer, override the computers judgement, retry the question, or pass it all together. Select the function key of your choice. F1 "display ". Display the correct answer. Once the correct answer has been displayed, you will again be given a chance to override the computers judgement, or continue on. Use the function key of your choice. F2 " retry ". Retry the question. If the game values allow multiple question tries, you may elect to try the question again. You may continue retrying questions until you have reached the retry limit. The game default retry limit is 3, (for new games), but may be changed. F3 "override". Override the computer's judgement. If you know your answer was correct, or correct enouph to get credit for, press the F3 to override the judgement. Com- puters cannot think. If overrides seem to be happening frequently, you may wish to bump the number of spelling errors to allow. An override will cause your inputted answer to be correct, and you will get another roll. See section 4.11. F4 " pass ". Pass the turn to the next player. If you wish to do nothing, you may pass. Again if your answer was correct, or if it was wrong but you have overrided the computer, or you have exhausted your over- rides, play will be passed on to the next player. The next player will have the all the same options. If all players have completed the round, the main selection screen will be displayed and the F1 "play" key must be pressed to begin another round. .E 4.0 CHANGES .E 4.1 Game value editor. As mention earlier, certain game values may be changed by you. When you make changes and later freeze the game for future use, the changes you made will remain in effect. The game value editor is the tool used to make changes to the number of spell- ing errors to allow in an inputted answer, the delay seconds between game responces and messages, the number of pies needed to win, the border color (palette), the number of answer retries to allow each player, and the sound or audible signal when more information is needed or there is pertinate information to be displayed. Press the Function key of your choice. F1 "Win Pies". Default is 6. This is the number of pies needed to win the game. Pies may only be aquired by answering a question correctly when located on a 'pie space'. See section 4.11. F2 " Delay ". Default is 1. This is the amount of time the computer will pause to allow you to read various game messages. Of course you will have all the time you need to key in an answer. See section 4.12. F3 "Spl Errs". Default is 3. This is the number of spelling errors for the computer to allow in each players inputted answer. You can select from 0 to 8 errors by depressing F3, then the Function key of how ever many errors to allow. See section 4.13. F4 "Palette ". Default is 0 [or "OFF"]. This is the background or border color. Select a color [or none] using the respectively labeled function keys. When your eyes become fatigued, select another, and another, and... See section 4.14. F5 "Retries ". Default is 1. This is the number of attempts to answer the question that the computer is to allow before updatint the score. You can select from 0 to 8 re- tries by selecting F5, then the function key of how ever many retries to allow. F6 " Sound ". Default is off. If on, the game will beep you when certain information is needed or when some critical event has occurred that you need to be aware of. This is nice, however, it can get some- what bothersome after on has become familiar with the game. F10 "exit chg". Exit the change editor. The main menu will then be displayed. .E 4.11 Spelling errors. When you are asked a question by the computer, you may not know the answer, in which case you can just press return to regester some input. Since this is incorrect, you will be given a chance to review the correct answer. See section 3.6. However, you may know the correct answer, but not know how to spell it. By default you are allowed up to three spelling errors in an answer. This can be changed with the game editor to anywhere from 0 to 8 errors. Make your selection using the function keys. F1 " 1 ". One spelling error. F2 " 2 ". Two spelling errors. F3 " 3 ". Three spelling errors. F4 " 4 ". Four spelling errors. F5 " 5 ". Five spelling errors. F6 " 6 ". Six spelling errors. F7 " 7 ". Seven spelling errors. F8 " 8 ". Eight spelling errors. F9 " 0 ". Zero spelling errors. F10 " exit ". No change. .E 4.12 Delay. Delay refers to the amount of time the game will wait for a player to read a displayed message. A standard delay time if 3 seconds is the default. Three seconds is quite slow, and once you have played a round or two with a three second delay, you will be quick to reset the delay to one. Remember, changes via the game editor may not be made during a round. Make your selection using the function keys. This value will be saved and regained whenever a game is frozen for play at a later date. F1 " 1 ". One second delay. F2 " 2 ". Two second delay. F3 " 3 ". Three second delay. .E 4.13 Win Pies. The object of the game is to acquire as many pies as is needed to win. Fortunatly, this number may vary both before and during a game. This happens in the board version too. When it's found that a six player game may take all night to play, the players might agree that the first one to three (or any number under 6) pies is the winner. This shortens the game, and is perfectly acceptable. TAK Theory's Trivia 2000 also has this ability. When the F1 key is pressed from the game editor, you will be prompted to select from 1 to 6 pies to win the game using the function keys. The function key number corresponds with the number of pies you select. You may also select F10, which is no change. Select the function key of your choice. F1 " 1 ". One pie needed to win. F2 " 2 ". Two pies needed to win. F3 " 3 ". Three pies needed to win. F4 " 4 ". Four pies needed to win. F5 " 5 ". Five pies needed to win. F6 " 6 ". Six pies needed to win. F10 " exit ". No change. .E 4.14 Border color (palette). It is possible to alter the border color of the screen while pressing F4 from the game editor. You may select the border color of your choice with the function keys. F1 " blue ". Change to a blue border. F2 " green ". Change to a green border. F3 " cyan ". Change to a cyan border. F4 " red ". Change to a red border. F5 "magenta ". Change to a magenta border. F6 " brown ". Change to a brown border. F7 " yellow ". Change to a yellow border. F8 " gray ". Change to a gray border. F9 " Off ". Turn the border off (black border). F10 " no chg ". No change. .E 4.15 Nbr of answer retries. Sometimes during the Trivial Pursuit board game, you may answer a question and be partially correct. The player hold- ing the answer may realize that you are so close that you deserve another try. Ok, so you get one, maybe two, etc. This retry rule could be decided before the board game begins. This could also solve the misspell problem discussed earlier. This computer version defaults to three retries for a new game. A frozen game will be whatever was set up before the game was frozen. Pressing F5 from the game editor will allow you to change the number of retries. Select the function key of your choice. F1 " 1 ". One retry. F2 " 2 ". Two retries. F3 " 3 ". Three retries. F4 " 4 ". Four retries. F5 " 5 ". Five retries. F6 " 6 ". Six retries. F7 " 7 ". Seven retries. F8 " 8 ". Eight retries. F9 " 0 ". Zero retries. F10 " no chg ". No change. .E 4.16 Sound. Sometimes you need to be notified of what the computer is doing a given time, in which case a message is displayed at the bottom of the screen in a message block. Other times, the information to be displayed is of a more critical nature, or the game needs some input from you. When the information is critical, the computer can notify you with both a message on the screen and an audible signal, but only if you have the sound turned on. Sound off is the de- fault when starting a new game. Sound can be turned on and of by pressing F6 from the game editor. Then depress the appropriate function key of your choice. F1 " On ". Turn the sound on. F2 " Off ". Turn the sound off. F10 " no chg ". No change. .E 4.2 Score editor. The score editor allows you to modify the various score attributes. The score attributes include the number of pies [of course], the number of turns, the player's name, the number of correct answers, the number of retries and the number of overrides for each player. Actually, only the player's name and the number of pies, are the only things of any significance to the game. The other items of statistical information only. However, any of the things can be changed. To enter the score editor, you must have pressed F4 from the main Function-key block [as mentioned in 3.5]. .E 4.21 Win Pies. By selecting F1 from the score function-key block, and selecting a player, you can increase or decrease the number of pies any given player has accumulated. F1 "increase". Decrement the amount by 1. F2 "decrease". Decrement the amount by 1. F3 " zero ". Reinitialize the amount to zero. .E 4.22 Turns. By selecting F2 from the score function-key block, and selecting a player, you can increase or decrease the number of turns any given player has accumulated. F1 "increase". Decrement the amount by 1. F2 "decrease". Decrement the amount by 1. F3 " zero ". Reinitialize the amount to zero. .E 4.24 Correct Answers. By selecting F5 from the score function-key block, and selecting a player, you can increase or decrease the number of correct answers a given player has accumulated. F1 "increase". Decrement the amount by 1. F2 "decrease". Decrement the amount by 1. F3 " zero ". Reinitialize the amount to zero. .E 4.25 Retries. By selecting F7 from the score function-key block, and selecting a player, you can increase or decrease the number of retries any given player has accumulated. F1 "increase". Decrement the amount by 1. F2 "decrease". Decrement the amount by 1. F3 " zero ". Reinitialize the amount to zero. .E 4.26 Overrides. By selecting F9 from the score function-key block, and selecting a player, you can increase or decrease the number of overrides any given player has accumulated. F1 "increase". Decrement the amount by 1. F2 "decrease". Decrement the amount by 1. F3 " zero ". Reinitialize the amount to zero. .E 4.27 Exit score editor. By selecting F10 from the score function-key block, you can exit the score editor. .E 5.0 QUESTIONS .E 5.1 Miscellanious. .E 9.0 FOMRS BOTTOM -key block, you can exit the score editor. .E 5.0 QUESTIONS .E