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─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Q v1.00a Written by David Proper ░▒▓█▓▒░ Copyright 1993 David Proper
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"Boy, isn't that a descriptive name" - I like to make people guess sometimes.
"Ya, I gathered that. So what is this?" - It's Q.
"Ha-ha. Real funny. That one is getting old." - Ya, I have overused it.
"What does this Q do" - Ever see the ST:TNG episodes where Q, from the
Q Continuium pops up and 'plays' with the Enterprise?
"Ya. I've seen them. What connection is there with this program?" - Well, the
other day I logged on to my BBS to check the new messages like I always do
and found a feedback message from Jerry Woody. He gave an idea about having
a Q-type person going around pissing with the users. He said that it would do
either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on Q's mood. So it does.
"Cool. I like this. How come the other TW authors don't do stuff like this?"
I guess because I'm better. :) haha.
"Ego alarm, I can hear it" - Ya, me too.
"So how does this program work and what does it do?" - same setup as the rest.
Calling syntax: Q datapath
Where datapath is the drive:path to your TW data files.
When Q is run, it will pick a random sector, and check for players in that
sector. It will then decide what kind of mood it's in, either good or bad.
Then it will pick what it will mess with, Fighters, shields, or Credits. If
it's in a good mood it will add a random amount, if in a bad mood, it will
subtract a random amount.
While adding it takes into consideration ship limits on shields and fighters.
If they have more fighters or shields then the max the ship can handle, then
it will remove the extra. Like like a miniature bug catcher.
OK, that's about it.
So far I haven't gotten jack shit for donations for all the damn programs I've
written for Trade Wars. If this continues I'm just going to stop doing TW
stuff. I am currently working on some registration routines. I'm not writing
thies things for my health ya know.
And for the people who even give a shit, I decided to skip my video digitizer
and go for a faster modem. So you guys can call AOS to get the programs and
not go in debt with your phone company. And so I can start calling LD and
uploading my programs when I first release them so you people can get them
faster. Gee, ain't that nice of me?
So send any money you feel the programs are worth. Or if you own/run a
company, donate hardware to my BBS (like a 19.2 kbp modem!) and get your
company/store name and address posted on my board AND in my doc files!!!
Hows that for some good advertising? I think it's worth it. And if you do
donate hardware, you'll get the next 5 releases free that require a
registration to unlock features. So I think you get something good in return.
Send any donations or hardware to the address given shortly. And for hardware,
don't forget to include any information you want added to my board/DOCs about
your store, like phone number, address, what you sell/do, etc. A full ANSI
advertisement would be great to.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
The following people deserves thanks for sending money in for one or more of
my TradeWars-adon programs:
11/02/92 : Mike Fergione
02/08/93 : Rick Blackwell
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
That should be enough. Now the stuff no one reads.. If you like this or
any of the other programs I've done that you have or have seen, please send
me something for my time and testing. I currently don't have a "real" job and
my only income is from my BBS and my programming. Do you know how hard it is
for a 22 year old computer nerd to get a job in a small hick town?
Send any donations, or your own programs that you've written to be placed on
my BBS to:
David Proper
927 Maple Avenue, NW
New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663-1522
Or if you just want to check out my BBS, which has all my publicly released
programs online, give my BBS a call:
The Ace of Spades
1-216-339-4592
300/1200/2400 baud - 24hrs - 7dys
21,000+ files - 130+ doors - 7+megs Gfiles
930megs online - 30+ message bases - Truly Private Email
Adult Section - CMF/MOD/GIF/MID/ROL/VOC/Etc files
Supports the 1st Admendment - Lots more goodies like a SysOp
who accualys answers mail and the pager.
Yea, I also have a Sound Blaster Pro so I can do any audio samples for the
users that they may want.
A quick little thank you goes out to Dan Roseen, SysOp of Nite Owl BBS
206-631-4949. He gave the TW file formats to one of my users that called his
system looking for them. Thanks Dan, we need more SysOps like that who are
willing to help out there users and other SysOps. (You wouldn't believe the
bullshit in this area between the local systems. It's unbelievable)
And of course thanks to Jason Boyd for writting the text file that had the
file formats.
Guess that's the end of this file. Increase the peace. Later.