How to play Moraff's WorldNet directly over a modem or through a BBS or the Internet:
To play WorldNet with another person by calling them directly over the modem:
1) Click on the 'Make Call' icon.
2) Click on 'Edit Entry' button.
3) Enter the person's name and phone number.
4) Click the 'BBS or Net Service' checkbox until it is empty.
5) Press 'Save (Done)' button. Now this person should appear in the dialing directory.
6) Now double click on that person, or single click and press 'Save and Dial' to call them.
7) The person on the other end must hit the answer mode before or when the phone rings.
8) After your modem finishes making noises, a window will appear. This is your chat window. Click on it's title bar and then click on the bottom box to type into it. When you hit Enter, the text will move to the top box and be sent to the other person.
9) Click on the system menu, which is the little minus sign in the upper left corner of the window.
10) Click on 'Run a Game' and then click on the game that you want to run.
11) The when the other player accepts, the game will begin on both machines.
12) Have fun!
To play WorldNet with another person over a BBS or the Internet:
1) Click on the 'Make Call' icon.
2) Click on 'Edit Entry' button.
3) Enter the BBS's or access system's name and phone number.
4) Click the 'BBS or Net Service' checkbox until it has an 'x' in it.
Steps 5, 6, and 7 can be done after you log on. So if you do not know how to answer them, you can skip them for now.
5) Enter a default string which contains the protocol for sending a private message over this system.
To send a private message saying 'How are you?' to 'steve' on IRC chat on the Internet, you would type '/msg steve How are you?'.
In computer terms, '/msg steve How are you?' is called a string of text. To send strings of text, computers convert them to packets by adding information about where the data came from and where it is going.
Moraff's WorldNet asks you to enter the string that you would use to send a private message saying Hello to another person. In the case of IRC chat you would type '/msg * Hello'. The * represents another person's name. Once you enter this protocol string into Moraff's WorldNet, WorldNet will understand how to talk to other people on IRC chat.
6) You can enter a mute string here. On some systems, every time you send a private message, the system responds with some like 'Message sent only to: Bob'. WorldNet sends load of private messages that you never see, so you need to mute this response. Any line of text that contains the string you type here will not be shown in your terminal window. In this example you should enter 'sent only to:' in the box. Note that capital letters count.
7) Enter the handle or name that you will be using on this system. Again capitol letters count.
8) Press 'Save (Done)' button. Now this system should appear in the dialing directory.
9) Now double click on that line, or single click and press 'Save and Dial' to call them.
10) A terminal window should open. This window is an 80x25 character window that is similar to a DOS window. You can type in this window almost just like a normal DOS terminal program. However, unless you turn off the 'Input Buffering' everything you type will appear at the bottom of the screen. But the system or BBS you are connected to will not see the letters you type until you hit Enter.
If you turn input buffering off, you may have to turn it back on to set up private chat windows.
11) Go through the system's normal log on procedures to get into a chat room, or some place where there are other people who have WorldNet.
12) If you did not know how to send a private message on the system (steps 5, 6, and 7), ask someone at this point.
13) Now click on the system menu icon in the upper left corner of the terminal window. Click on 'Open Chat Window'.
14) Now click on the chat window's system menu icon, and click on 'Set Private Message Strings'.
15) Enter the handle you are using on this system, and enter the handle of another person who has WorldNet.
16) If you did not enter the default private message string in step 5, enter it here.
17) Hit 'OK'.
18) When the other person accepts your request to start a private conversation, their name will appear in the chat window's title bar.
19) Click on the chat window's title bar and then click on the bottom box to type into it. When you hit Enter, the text will move to the top box and be sent to the other person.
20) Click on the system menu, which is the little minus sign in the upper left corner of the window.
21) Click on 'Run a Game' and then click on the game that you want to run.
22) The when the other player accepts, the game will begin on both machines.
