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S l o t s O n l i n e by Benjamin Kuo Silver Yucca Software
documentation 3419 East 7590 South
version 1.00 07/22/92 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121
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INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to Slots Online! This is a simple slot machine simulation
program for Second Sight, Red Ryder Host, WWIV, and Mansion bulletin
board programs, which allows your users to play a simulated slot
machine and compete to see who can get the top slots score.
Slots is significantly loaded toward the user. If anyone has any
particular odds they'd like for certain patterns, or their own set,
simply give me the odds for each pattern, the payoff, what screen
they'd like displayed, any other comments, or whatever and I'd be
happy to make a custom Slots door for your bbs.
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 Slots support files.
• Copy the Slots 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 Slots. 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 Slots 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 Slots). Setup and running the
application work ONLY if you launch from your bulletin board
application, otherwise Slots 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 the Slots data after moving your bbs application or
the folders, it is easiest to open your System Folder and drag
the "Slots Options" file to the trash.
• Quit from Slots 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.
The program creates a "Slots Scores" text file which you can use
as a routinely updated text file for display in Red Ryder Host, WWIV,
or Mansion as a standard text file. It exists in the Slots path
you have designated.
BUG FIX HISTORY:
07/22/92 Initial Release.
SHAREWARE FEES:
As a reminder, THIS IS SHAREWARE. I know how you don't like to spend
too much money running an expensive phone line, board software, and
occupying a mac all day, but I consider bulletin board sysops to be of
a higher nature than most users. Which means (if you haven't already)
you will find it in your hearts to send me (Benjamin Kuo, write that
name on the check, please), a lousy $10.
The author reserves all rights to the program. Local
bulletin boards may distribute this program with the documentation, in
StuffIt 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.