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The Riddle Adventure by Benjamin Kuo Silver Yucca Software
documentation 3419 East 7590 South
version 1.00 07/14/92 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121
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INTRODUCTION:
This program is pretty self explanatory. It allows your users to enter
a "riddle adventure", where each room contains a riddle. If they
answer the riddle correctly, they can proceed to the next room. Once
they have exhausted all of the current rooms, they're allowed to
enter their very own riddle for inclusion in the end of the rooms.
I currently have a (very stupid) collection of riddles from one of
those stupid "PIG RIDDLE" books. If you don't like it, just trash
the "Riddle File" and Riddle will automatically start a new (empty)
riddle collection.
If you'd like to input your own set of riddles, you can either do it
the hard way (through the bulletin board), or through a text editor.
Each riddle record is nine lines, in the order below:
Room Name
Room Description Line 1
Room Description Line 2
Room Description Line 3
Room Riddle Line 1
Room Riddle Line 2
Room Answer (ALL CAPS!)
Room Explanation
Room Creator
Feel free to create your own--if you make one you'd like to have
distributed with the door, send it to me!
WHINE, COMPLAIN, GROAN SECTION:
One note: There are *NO* Macintosh based bulletin board systems in
Utah, nor am I running a RRH, Second Sight, WWIV, or Mansion system
myself (since with college I'm never in one place for longer than
two months!). That means: I haven't been able to exhaustively test
this (or any other) of my programs. Which means, if you run into
problems, LET ME KNOW! and I'll try to fix them ASAP.
If you want to set up a BBS in Utah, let me know :-)
INSTALLATION:
The steps to installation are simple. Follow the steps outlined below:
• Using the New Folder menu choice in the Finder, or an equivalent,
create a folder for the Riddle support files.
• Copy the Riddle application to the same folder as your
bulletin board.
• In your host bbs application, set up a menu choice where you want
to run an external application, in this case Riddle. In Red
Ryder Host this is done with MenuEdit (for more in-detail help,
please refer to your Host manual). In Mansion, this is done
through the built-in menu editor. In the WWIV system, pressing
the proper key while waiting for a call will bring you to the
external application setup.
• Run your bulletin board, and launch Riddle. This will allow
you to enter the correct pathnames via a dialog box, as well as
giving you the option of a log file or no log file (marking when
people have entered or exited Delphi). Setup and running the
application work ONLY if you launch from your bulletin board
application, otherwise Delphi does not find the "Launch BBS"
or corresponding file (depending on which bbs program you are
using) that it requires to work correctly. If you need to re-
configure Riddle Adv. after moving your bbs application or
the folders, you simply need to drag the "Riddle Options" file
in your system folder to the trash.
• Quit from Riddle, and your bulletin board will now be able to
run the external door.
OTHER INFO:
If you are running under multifinder, select the "No Local Echo" in the
sysop menus, and the window will not appear.
BUG FIX AND ADDITION HISTORY:
1.00 07/14/92 Initial release.
SHAREWARE FEES:
As a reminder, THIS IS SHAREWARE. So, if you use this program, please
remember: it costs money to buy compilers! :-) If just 10 of your users
get a kick out of using Riddle, they can all pitch in $1 and you'll
be registered!
The author reserves all rights to the program. This program may be
distributed via all national electronic networks. Local
bulletin boards may distribute this program with the documentation, in
StuffIt or Compactor format, freely, providing that they do not gain any
renumeration besides the operating costs. This program may not be distributed
with any commercial software without the author's written permission. User
groups are free to distribute the program in monthly disks and to include the
program on any CD-ROM (such as BMUG's PD-ROM) or public domain library,
as long as there is no charge beyond costs of media. Public domain
distribution companies, including EDUCOMP, PD•EXCHANGE, and so-called
"National User Groups" MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE or SELL this program in any way,
without the express written permission of the author.
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REGISTRATION FORM Send To: Benjamin Kuo, Silver Yucca Software,
Riddle 1.00 07/14/92 3419 East 7590 South, Salt Lake City, Utah
($10 shareware) 84121. Voice Phone: (801) 943-4428
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Date: ___/___/____
YOUR NAME: _________________________________________
COMPLETE BBS NAME: _________________________________________
VOICE NUMBER: (___) ___-____ GEnie: _____________
(optional)
BBS NUMBER: (___) ___-____ CIS: _____________
(optional)
HOURS: ____ Delphi: _____________
(optional)
BAUD: ______________ BIX: _____________
(optional)
AOL: _____________
(optional)
Internet: _____________
(optional)
FIDOnet: _____________
(optional)
RUNNING: ( )Red Ryder Host ( )Mansion ( )WWIV
( )Second Sight ( )Hermes ( )MUBBS
ADDRESS: ______________________________________
CITY: _____________________________
STATE/PROVINCE: __________________
ZIP: ______________ COUNTRY (if not US) _______________
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