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- THE PIT 3.00
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- EGA INTERFACE INSTALLATION
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- This document gives step by step instructions for using
- the EGA Interface with QModem, Telix, Procomm, and Telemate.
- If your communications program is not similar to one of these,
- call our Customer Service Line at:
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- MTS Customer Service
- (806)796-1781
- 10am-7pm CST
- Mon-Fri
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-
- Standard Generic Bleeding Heart Hype
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The future of this product depends heavily upon users supporting it. And I
- will not waste alot of your time repeating what you have probably already read
- about a BILLION times! Just do the BBS world a favor and register this
- interface. We want to write more and make better games. But if no support is
- shown for our work then we will drop out of the BIZ and do something that pays
- better. (Would you do any different if you had mouths to feed?)
-
- Unpacking the Interface
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- 1. Go into the directory where you keep your
- communications program.
-
- 2. Make a subdirectory called EGAPIT.
-
- Type: md egapit
-
- 3. Change into the EGAPIT directory. Do NOT leave this
- directory during the installation process.
-
- Type cd egapit
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- 4. Copy all of the files from your interface disks into
- this directory. Be sure to specify the proper drive to
- copy from.
-
- Type: copy A:*.*
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- 5. PKUNZIP the game files into the EGAPIT directory.
-
- Type: PKUNZIP PIT300-E.zip
- PKUNZIP PITGFX3.zip
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- Qmodem
- ~~~~~~
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- 6. Copy the file EGAPIT.BAT to your communications
- directory.
-
- Type: copy EGAPIT.BAT C:\QMODEM
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- 7. Load up Qmodem.
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- 8. Go to your configuration options.
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- Type: Alt-N
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- 9. Select the Protocol option.
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- 10. The EGA Pit loads itself like an external protocol.
- Create a new protocol called EGAPIT. Have it use the
- E hot key to start up and use the U/L and D/L filename
- EGAPIT.BAT. This batch file was included with your
- interface disks.
-
- 11. After you've entered this information, your screen
- should look like this:
-
-
- +------------------------- Setup Menu - version 4.2F --------------------------+
- | Video Modem Dirs Host Protocols Files Options Exit |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | 0 - |
- | 1 - |
- | 2 - |
- | 3 - |
- +---------------------------------+
- | Select character E |
- | Protocol EGAPIT |
- | Upload BAT EGAPIT |
- | Download BAT EGAPIT |
- | Filename Prompt N |
- +---------------------------------+
- | Toggles ^Y |
- +--------------------+
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- 12. Once this protocol is set up, all you need to do to
- activate the interface is PgDn when the program asks
- you to, select E for EGAPIT and the EGA Pit will
- coordinate itself with your host BBS.
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- 13. See the Player Documentation for instructions on
- playing The Pit once you're connected.
-
- 14. Notice you may have to setup QMODEM to swap out
- its memory to disk if you do not have enough memory to
- run the program.
-
- +------------------------- Setup Menu - version 4.2F --------------------------+
- | Video Modem Dirs Host Protocols Files Options Exit |
- +-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------+-+
- | Toggles |
- | Runtime Parms |
- +-------------------------+|
- On if you have EMS -----> | EMS for Overlays ON ||
- | Int16 Enable OFF ||
- | Share IRQ's ON ||
- Set these on ------+----> | Optimum Shell ON |+
- |----> | -- Disk Shell ON |
- | Calibrate DELAY ON |
- +-------------------------+
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- 15. If you do not wish to have QMODEM to do a disk shell each
- time you run our game, then you can D/L a utility from our
- BBS called SWAP. It will shell out QMODEM from inside the
- batchfile. Your batchfiles will have to be adjusted however.
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- Telix
- ~~~~~
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- 6. Copy the file EGAPIT.BAT to your communications
- directory.
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- Type: copy EGAPIT.BAT C:\TELIX
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- 7. Load up Telix.
-
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- 8. Go to your configuration options.
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- Type: Alt-O
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- 9. Select the Protocol option.
-
- 10. The EGA Pit loads itself like an external protocol.
- Create a new protocol called EGAPIT. Have it use the
- E hot key to start up and use the U/L and D/L filename
- EGAPIT.BAT. This batch file was included with your
- interface disks.
-
- 11. After you've entered this information, your screen
- should look like this:
-
- +- File transfer protocols ------------------------------------------------+.
- | |
- |External Key Protocol Upload Download BAT or DL |
- |Protocols Name Filename Filename Script Name |
- | |
- |A................. E EGAPIT EGAPIT EGAPIT Batch N |
- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-
- 12. Once this protocol is set up, all you need to do to
- activate the interface is PgDwn when the program asks
- you to, select E for EGAPIT and the EGA Pit will
- coordinate itself with your host BBS.
-
- 13. See the Player Documentation for instructions on
- playing The Pit once you're connected.
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- Procom
- ~~~~~~
-
- 6. Copy the file EGAPIT.BAT to your communications
- directory.
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- Type: copy EGAPIT.BAT C:\PCPLUS
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- 7. Load up Procomm Plus
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- 8. Go to your configuration options.
-
- Type: Alt-S
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- 9. Install EGAPIT.BAT as an external protocol
-
-
- 10. Once this protocol is set up, all you need to do to
- activate the interface is PgDn when the program asks
- you to, select the EGAPIT protocol and the EGA Pit will
- coordinate itself with your host BBS.
-
- 11. See the Player Documentation for instructions on
- playing The Pit once you're connected.
-
- 12. Notice that PROCOMM does not pass parameters unless
- you type them in. You may have to edit your batch file
- to make the interface run properly.
-
- How: Edit the EGAPIT.BAT file and change the line:
-
- EGATERM %2 %1
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- to:
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- EGATERM <com port> <baud rate>
-
- Example: EGATERM 1 2400
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- Telemate
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- 7. Copy the file EGAPIT.BAT to your communications
- directory.
-
- Type: copy EGAPIT.BAT C:\telemate
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- 8. Load up telemate.
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- 9. Escape from the dialing directory.
-
- 10. Press Alt O to change options.
-
- 11. Select the Protocol option.
-
- 12. The EGA Pit loads itself like an external protocol.
- You will need to delete one of the other protocols that
- you don't use often, and replace it with one called
- EGAPIT.
-
- +- External Protocols ---------------------------------------------+
- | Protocol Upload Download Prompt Auto-Download |
- | Name Key Batch Batch DL Name Sequence |
- | |
- | BiModem BI-MODEM BI-MODEM [ ] |
- | Jmodem J JMODEM-U JMODEM-D [X] |
- | *EGAPIT P EGAPIT EGAPIT [ ] |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- 13. Once you've created the protocol your screen should
- look like the one above, notice the line for EGAPIT
- has an asterisk.
-
- 14. Once this protocol is set up, all you need to do to
- activate the interface is PgDwn when the program asks
- you to, select P for EGAPIT and the Ega Pit will
- coordinate itself with your host BBS.
-
- 15. See the Player Documentation for instructions on
- playing The Pit once you're connected.
-
-
- 16. Note: TELEMATE is a memory intensive program. It uses more
- memory than any other Communications Package we tested.
- Depending on which version of TELEMATE you are using,
- you might require a utility available on our BBS to
- make your EGA TERM run. The utility is listed as
- SWAP.ZIP and the following changes should make it work:
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- 1) UNZIP the SWAP.ZIP into your EGAPIT sub-directory.
- 2) Get back into your COMMUNICATIONS directory and
- edit the EGAPIT.BAT file.
-
- 3) Change: EGATERM %2 %1
- To: SWAP -f EGATERM %2 %1
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-
- These methods seems to work for most people, although there may be exceptions.
- If you still have difficulties please call us and we will try to help you:
-
- Midas Touch Software
- [>Voice Only!<]
- (806)796-1781
- Monday-Friday
- 10AM - 7PM CST
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