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DR. DREAD Copyright 1995 Nannette Thacker. All rights reserved SHINING STAR SOFTWARE DREAD NIGHTLY MAINTENANCE: ────────────────────────── Maintenance must be performed in a nightly maintenance batch file: dread maint DREAD SYSOP MODE: ───────────────── dread sysop BEFORE MUDDLEING THROUGH THIS ENTIRE FILE (WHICH IS FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO MUDDLE) -- THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE TO MUDDLE: READ THIS: To install -- USE THE INSTALL.BAT For sample .bat file -- SEE sample.bat DO NOT USE THE SAMPLE.CFG FILE UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS! That is short & sweet and should do it. If it doesn't, then start muddleing. Sample Door Batch File ────────────────────── @echo off cd\pb\games\dread dread c:\pb\node1\dorinfo1.def 1 cd\pb\node1 or @echo off cd\pb\games\dread dread c:\pb\node%1\dorinfo%1.def %1 cd\pb\node%1 Call the Dread Sysop Mode, which provides a User Editor and Input of the Registration Key by adding the word "sysop" to the end of the command line. dread sysop INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: ─────────────────────── Create a DREAD directory. Unarchive your DREAD*.ZIP file in the DREAD directory. Type: install new if a new installation or: install upgrade if upgrading. DREAD.CFG: ────────── NOTE: THE SAMPLE.CFG FILE IS NOT NECESSARY IN 99% OF ALL CASES. You have the ability to customize Dr. Dread if you wish to eliminate the use of a fossil driver or when you are using unusual irqs or ports. The file to alter is the sample.cfg file. Most BBS systems will have no need of setting up this file or altering it. If you *do* require altering the sample.cfg file, rename it dread.cfg for nodes requiring the same settings or dread.cf1, dread.cf2, etc. for nodes requiring different settings. Place the name of the config file on the command line like so: dread c:\pb\node1\dorinfo1.def 1 dread.cfg or dread c:\pb\node1\dorinfo1.def 1 dread.cf1 dread c:\pb\node2\dorinfo2.def 2 dread.cf2 Local Mode ────────── The door can be tested in Local Mode before setting up your .bat file(s): DREAD local "Your Name" If you just type: DREAD local The system will default to "Sysop" as your name. Within the game you will be asked to give an alias for play. If your entire family is playing locally, each one can pass their real name on the command line for identification and then if they play via the BBS as well, it will use the same record for play. Running from Type 7 Shell to DOS ──────────────────────────────── DR. DREAD can be run from your bbs with a type 7 shell to dos. An example command line within your BBS system config would be: Quickbbs: command.com /c dread.bat or command.com *C dread.bat Proboard: *Z dread.bat MULTI-NODE DREAD: ───────────────── CALL DR. DREAD MULTI-NODE THE SAME AS SINGLE NODE: dread c:\bbs\node1\dorinfo1.def 1 dread.cfg dread c:\bbs\node2\dorinfo2.def 2 dread.cfg dread c:\bbs\node3\dorinfo3.def 3 dread.cfg ^ ^ node # Please pass the drop file and path, the node number, and optionally the name of the configuration file (dread.cfg or if multi-node and you want different configurations, dread.cf1, dread.cf2, etc. If using same configuration, they can all use the same config file). MULTI-NODE SUPPORT ────────────────── Dr. Dread is a true Multi-User Door Game. It supports multi-nodes. We have tested it on six nodes successfully, and I'm sure it will support even more. Multi-players can actually "see" each other "traveling" in the zones. A "phone" feature allows sending public or private messages to other on-line players. It also features "rewinding" up to 9 messages and "putting messages on hold" to "play back" later. Players can "walk" across another player to see who they are and challenge them to a friendly battle. The score list reports "who's on line" and what "node" they are calling in on. The installation automatically takes care of setting the *.exe and *.txt files to READ ONLY. This is necessary for multi-user play since users will get a sharing violation if they try to access those files at the same time from within the game. This is a (hak kaff) "feature" of using Turbo C/C++ as a compiler. Sorry. ;) Dr. Dread will use the record locking options built into SHARE from MS DOS 3.30 or later. Or you may use your Network's Sharing capabilities. RESETTING THE GAME ────────────────── Go to Sysop Mode and use the "Reset Game" option. Run sysop mode from dos by typing at the dos prompt: dread sysop This allows you to retain your list of Dread Heads. Sysop Mode ────────── Sysop mode can be accessed by DOS: DREAD sysop SYSOP MODE MENU FUNCTIONS: ────────────────────────── Enter Registration Key Scores by Agent Name -- YOU MAY NEED TO RESELECT PLAYER WHEN DONE Scores & Last Date On by Real Name -- MAY NEED TO RESELECT PLAYER Where located in Game by Agent Name -- MAY NEED TO RESELECT PLAYER Select Player to Edit by Alias Delete Player Move Player to Zone 1 Command Center (in case trapped somewhere) Reset Game (will delete all players) Toggle Long/Short Mode On and Off Quit Editor Current Player Alias: MoonDust Name: Nannette Thacker ENTER REGISTRATION KEY ────────────────────── After we have received your registration form in REGISTER.DOC, we will send you a registration key. You will use this menu item to enter the key. Master Card and Visa registrations are also available. SCORES & WHERE LOCATED ────────────────────── You can choose to view the scores by the Agent Name, the Player Name, or you can View the Agent's by where they are located in the Zones. This will help you to identify what the real name of a player is. When done viewing the player list, it will set you to the end of the database and you may need to reselect the player, if you had a player selected before looking at the list. SELECT PLAYER TO EDIT BY ALIAS ────────────────────────────── Once you have viewed the player list, you can select the player you wish to work with by their alias name. Then you can DELETE or MOVE them. DELETE A PLAYER ─────────────── This will permanently remove a player from the game. S/he can still come back as a new player and start over. This allows you to delete players who may have entered an "obscene" alias. MOVE PLAYER TO ZONE 1 COMMAND CENTER ──────────────────────────────────── Why would you want to do this? Well, so far, there is no reason. But have you heard of other games where the player is stuck out on a mountain or in the ocean somewhere and can't get out. Well, that's what this is for. With the ability of teleportation, the player may ignorantly use their last teleportation to teleport to a zone where they trap them- selves in a mountain or something. Hopefully they'll be smart enough to only use their last teleport to teleport to a safe Command Center. QUIT SYSOP MODE ─────────────── This exits the Sysop Mode and takes you back to the BBS. CURRENT PLAYER ALIAS: NAME: ──────────────────────────── Current Player Alias: MoonDust Name: Nannette Thacker This gives the name of the player and his/her alias in case you are trying to track down a certain agent for disciplinary or other reasons. RESET THE GAME ────────────── (Start over): This will delete all players in the player database and allow you to reset the game. The list of Dread Destroyers or Dread Heads will be retained. All messages will also be deleted. BACKUPS ─────── If you are limited on backup space, but would like to backup the crucial Dr. Dread files, the ones to back up are: MAINT.DBF PLAYERS.* DESTROYS.* The maint database contains your maintenance information, to be used with the nightly maintenance routine. The players database and indexes contain the scores and inventory of all the players. The destroys database and indexes contain the list of agents who have succeeded in making it to Dr. Dread's Laboratory and attempting to capture him. Players might be somewhat upset if they make it through and their name gets lost from this list. DR. DREAD MAINTENANCE ───────────────────── The DREADM.exe is no longer used and can be deleted from your DOS directory if you have it from a previous version. In order to perform daily maintenance you must do it in your nightly maintenance .bat file. cd\bbs\games\dread dread maint That's it! It will automatically delete inactive players more than 30 days old. It will delete old messages and phone chat. Reindex databases, etc. SHAREWARE -- TRYING IT OUT ────────────────────────── You may run Dr. Dread from DOS to try it out first. Just issue the following command from dos: dread local The non-registered version allows you to experience the Command Center, the Zones, the Missions, the Traps, Transporting, Maps, Key Quests -- and more, all before you register. There is no expiration date. There is no request to remove it from your system after so many days. The registered version offers more Zones, more Missions, more Droid difficulty levels, and more key quests -- more FUN! When you can afford to register, all you will need to do is plug in a number. You won't need to install a new EXE. You won't need to download a key every few weeks. Your key will be valid for new versions. All upgrades are FREE. *We reserve the right to change keys if we find our key has been hacked and released to others. In that case we will notify you of the new key when the new version comes out. Everything is fully tested for many weeks before final release. Full Features in the Registered Version ──────────────────────────────────────── I know it is difficult to get enough money to register all the games you would like to register. You are not limited to a trial time period. You may keep the unregistered version on your BBS as long as you wish. Yet, remember, this is NOT FREEWARE, it is SHAREWARE, and at such a time as you can afford the SHAREWARE registration fee, please send it. The game is fully functional, but with the registered version, your users will get 93 more Zones, 9 more key quests, three times as many missions, 50 more Droid Difficulty Levels, and will be able to attempt to capture Dr. Dread and receive their name on the Dread Head List! Benefits of registering ─────────────────────── 1. 100 Zones, more Missions, more Key Quests! 2. All future updates FREE when freqed from BBS's carrying the files. 3. Author support. 4. Top priority for suggested game features and enhancements. 5. Dread Head listings -- List of those who have made it to Dr. Dread's Lab and attempted to capture him. ERRORS: ─────── If you get an error -70 during packing and reindexing of a database, refer to the database name on the screen. That error will happen if someone else is using the game while you are trying to do maintenance on the other node. If that is NOT the problem, then that database is probably corrupted. If you run "dread maint" and it happens again, you will need to unarchive the game again. You may pull your maint.dbf from backup to save your registration information. If your remote callers get aschii dumped characters are the screen when DREAD but locally it looks okay: If you have a dread.cfg or dread.cf1 etc. file, please edit it and make sure anything referring to Personality is totally deleted. For some reason on some systems the Personality profile causes this to happen. Deleting it seems to resolve the problem. ERROR -120: This error occurs when your disk is full. Check and make sure you have a lot of hard disk memory. Perhaps you're getting low. Clear up some hard disk space. ERROR -200, -300, -310: One of your database files or indexes is probably corrupted. Run the nightly maintenance. If that fails, you will have to delete your entire directory and unarchive the original and install it new. To uninstall the entire directory, be sure to: attrib -R *.* first. ERROR -920: Out of memory. Dread tried to allocate memory from the heap, but no memory was available.