Copyright: Copyright © 2000 by cerasus.development


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Whether on parties, with friends, or home alone - whether at lunchbreak, at work or in your living room: QuizTime is a source for hours of fun and never starts to bore you. More than 1700 questions in 20 categories are to be answered in a hosted game show setting. Well, if that ain't enough for your insatiable heart, then you can download new questions with the regular online update or create your own ones with the editor. Up to four players can join in the fun. The best of the best has the chance to enter his name in the high score list. And once you're in there, why not immortalize yourself and submit your score to the international Top 50 of the week on the internet. Well, and if your boss insists that you better start working or your mom calls you to dinner, then you can just save your current game and get back to it later.

These procedures are treated in detail for your convenience:

 	Start a new game

 	Save or open games

 	Hall of fame (the high scores)

 	The editor

 	Online updates

 	About QuizTime

 	Limitations of the demo

 	Buy the full version


About QuizTime

QuizTime is protected under international and pan-American copyright laws. The program may not be reproduced, recompiled, copied or resold in part or as a whole, nor may the program routines be  used, copied or reproduced in any physical or electronically stored form, without explicit written permission by cerasus.development.

•	Short description:

Whether on parties, with friends, or home alone - whether at lunchbreak, at work or in your living room: QuizTime is a source for hours of fun and never starts to bore you. More than 1700 questions in 20 categories are to be answered in a hosted game show setting. Well, if that ain't enough for your insatiable heart, then you can download new questions with the regular online update or create your own ones with the editor. Up to four players can join in the fun. The best of the best has the chance to enter his name in the high score list. And once you're in there, why not immortalize yourself and submit your score to the international Top50 of the week on the internet. Well, and if your boss insists that you better start working or your mom calls you to dinner, then you can just save your current game and get back to it later.

•	Programming:

cerasus.development

Stefan Juelke and Denny Carl

Dirschauer Strasse 4

10245 Berlin, Germany

eMail: info@quiztime-online.com, support@quiztime-online.com

Internet: www.quiztime-online.com, www.cerasus.de

CGI-Programming for Online

high scores: Rob Craven, eMail: rob.craven@gmx.de

Questions by: cerasus.development, Harald Gutzelnig

Translation by: Benjamin Haedrich

Hosted by: Benjamin Haedrich

•	Distribution:

ARI DATA CD GmbH

Hans-Boeckler-Straße 13

47877 Willich, Germany

eMail: info@ari.de

Internet: www.ari.de

Telefon: 0049 2154 - 9476-24

Fax: 0049 2154 - 9476-23

•	Version:

1.04 for Windows95/98/2000/ME and updates

•	Copyright:

(c) 2000 - 2001 by cerasus.development


Start a new game

1.	Click on [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Click on the icon New Game in the menu.

3.	Choose how many players (up to four) are to participate in the game with the Number of players option.

4.	Choose one of the many pictures available for all the players in the game by clicking on the arrows, or use one of your own pics alternatively, then click on Own picture and insert a bitmap image from your own files.

5.	Enter the names of the players in the boxes under their pictures.

6.	Pick your poison and choose the Categories which you want to have included in the game. The minimum is set at  twenty questions per player.

7.	Confirm your choices by clicking on OK.

Some suggestions:

•	Using own pictures instead of the custom graphics provides additional fun. How about scanning in a photography of you? Just use your photo/paint - shop program and save the pic as a bitmap (bmp). Then use the Own picture function, which will give you the possibility to insert it in the game.

•	If you use your own pics during the game, they will be replaced with custom images by the program if they're not available at the time of opening a saved game. If you want to continue one of your saved games on another computer, we advise you to use custom pictures for you convenience.


Save or open games

QuizTime can save your current game, so that you can continue playing at a later time or even on another computer.

To save a game or to open a saved game you ...:

1.	Click on the icon for Save Game or Open Game in the menu, depending on which of the two you want to do.

2.	Choose the directory under which the game should be saved or the directory from which a saved game shal be retrieved.

3.	Enter a name for the file or pick the file you want to open, respectively.

4.	Click on Save Game or Open Game.


Hall of Fame

Those players who finish the game with the most money are entered into the Hall of Fame, where the highest scores are recorded. This list, which rates the best 10 players is only the beginning, though. If you want to, you may submit your scores to the international Top50 of the week on the internet and thus compete with other players from all over the world.

Further information required? The look right here:

 	View Hall of Fame

 	Update International Top50

     	Submit own scores to the Top50


View the Hall of Fame

1.	Click on [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Pick the icon Hall of Fame from the menu.

3.	Click on the icon My Top10 to take a look at the local high scores, or click on Online Top50 to view the best of the best on an international level.


Update international Top50

The international Top50 of the week is the high score list of the best QuizTime players from all over the world, showing their names e-mail addresses and scores. In order to submit your scores to the international Top50 of the week and gain access to that list, you have to be in possession of a connection to the internet.

To view the Top50 of the week you...:

1.	Click on [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Click on the icon Hall of Fame in the menu and then on the icon Top50 Online.

3.	If you access the list for the first time, answer the question you will be asked then with Yes. If you have accessed the list before, click on the button Update Top50.

4.	Now click on Proceed. QuizTime will now try to use an existing connection to the internet or to initiate one itself. If this attempt succeeds, the current data is retrieved from the internet.

5.	Click on the Close button.

A few suggestions:

•	The Top50 is updated immediately once a player submitted his scores. Therefore we advise you to download the list in regular intervals, in order to know the latest news. After 7 days without an update QuizTime will remind you to access the Top50 again, if you have forgotten to do so.

•	To view the Top50 also on computers with no connection to the internet, you simply need to copy the file TOPLIST.DAT from the installation directory of QuizTime.


Submit own scores to the Top50

The winners of every game have the opportunity to submit their scores with their names and e-mail addresses to the Top50 of the week on the internet.

To submit your scores to the Top50 of the week you ...:

1.	Click on the icon Submit Game at the end of the game.

2.	Click on Proceed.

3.	Enter the name and e-mail address you want to submit with your scores.

4.	Click on Proceed. QuizTime will now access your connection to the internet to submit the data.

5.	Click on the Close button.


Online updates

With QuizTime's very own online update you're always up to date. You don't only ensure that you have the most current version of the program; you'll also receive new categories filled with hundreds of questions, alternative host moderation, etc. Make a fun thing even better with our gratutious regular online-updates in sports, politics and entertainment.

To download online updates you...:

1.	Click on [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Click on the icon Online Update in the menu.

3.	Click on Proceed. QuizTime will attempt to acces your connection to the internet, then.

4.	Choose the "packages" of data you want to download. If you click on a certain "package", information about it will be displayed in the lower half of the screen.

5.	Click on Proceed. The data "packages" will now be downloaded from the internet, after which you can disconnect again. QuizTime will then decompress the data and install it on your computer.

6.	Click on Close.


The editor

With the editor of QuizTime you can create new questions for the game, develop new categories, or work on stored information.

See for yourself what the editor can do:

 	Create a new category

 	Edit an existing category

 	Create and edit questions


Create a new category

All questions in QuizTime are divided into different categories to make access easier.

To create a new category you...:

1.	Click on [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Click on the icon Editor in the menu and then on the icon New File.

3.	Enter a name for the new category.

4.	Click on OK.


Edit an existing category

Edit an existing category:

All questions in QuizTime are divided into different categories to make access easier.

To edit the contents of an existing category you ...:

1.	Click on [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Click on the icon Editor in the menu and then on the icon Open.

3.	Click on the category you want to edit in the box on the right.

4.	Click on OK.


Create and edit questions

To create or edit questions you...:

1.	Click on  [image], in order to start QuizTime.

2.	Click on the icon Editor in the menu.

3.	Open a category already in existence.

4.	Enter a question and four options for the answer. If your question requires an answer entered by the players, then you just type the exact answer in numbers in the first answer field. You may also edit already existing answers or questions.

5.	Click on the circle next to an answer to point out to the program that this is the right one. If your question requires an answer entered by the players then activate the option Educated Guess.

6.	Click on the icon Proceed to work on the next question, on Save to store the current question in the files of the program, or on Close to close the editor.

A few suggestions:

•	If you want to search a category for a certain key word, you just click on Search, enter the word and the click on Proceed. The editor now takes you to the next question containing the word.

•	If you have made an entry you want to erase again or you have accidentially erased something important, then just click on the icon Undo and the program will revert to the condition it was in the last time information was saved.


Limitations of the demo

The version of QuizTime you have installed on your computer is a demo, which has some limitations compared to the complete version of the game:

•	only 60 questions instead of more than 1,850

•	limited online updates

•	no support for troubleshooting, no Q&A service

•    no possibility to update the program

You may test the demo version gratutiously for thirty days, after which you must register the program or delete it from your computer.


Buy the full version

Buy the full version now for only 10 dollars. Order online under www.quiztime-online.com and download the full version directly from the Internet. In just a few minutes you will be the proud owner of the full version!