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- Planet Mongers Sysop Documentation
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- Thank you for choosing to set up planet mongers on your BBS.
- You will find that setting up this door will not be quite easy
- but neither difficult.
- Since you now have to UNREGISTERED version of this game door
- you will only have the following abilities:
- 1) 25 Players Only at one time.
-
- But if you register you will be allowed to
- have up to one hundred!
-
- 2) ASCII only score bulletin.
-
- With the registered version the program will
- create an ascii and ansi version of the score
- file. The score is used as a bulletin to
- update players.
-
- 3) The Registration Screen
-
- This will be removed if you purchase the
- registered version.
-
- 4) 30-Day Inactive User Purge
-
- The program will delete any users that
- haven't used the door for 30 days. This will
- insure that another users can play when
- others don't call.
-
- 5) Hoy-Keyed Menus
-
- The Player can press a key before the whole
- entire menu is sent. This improves the speed
- of the game.
-
- Now that you know what you have you will want how to set it
- up and what it is about.
-
- Overall View
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- The setting of the game is in the future where the human
- population has grown quite large and now live in most parts of
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- the galaxy.
- The population is so large and the sections of the galaxy in
- which they live is so different, that humans now consider
- themselves a different race from other humans living in different
- parts of the galaxy.
- With these differences causes nationalism and imperialism
- which now, have erupted into war between the human races.
- Now, for control of the most territory the different races
- of the galaxy now battle each other over the vast expanse of
- space.
- The goal of this game is to capture enough territory to own
- most of the galaxy and then to destroy it ending, to feuds between
- the races and finally end the chaos.
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- How to Setup Planet Mongers
-
- Planet Mongers need the DORINFO1.DEF file that your bbs
- creates before running a door. If your BBS can not create a
- dorinfo1.def file, please try to find a door converter on any
- good BBS. The dorinfo1.def file must be in the same directory as
- the Planet Monger program.
- Also, Planet Mongers needs a fossil driver to be loaded
- before the loading of Planet Mongers. BNU is a perfect example
- of this and should be included in the zip file in which you
- received this game door.
- Also, you should have ansi.sys (or a similarity) installed
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- in your config.sys.
- Finally your computer must have a clock which keeps the
- current date. This is needed for resetting turns everyday and
- for the 30 day inactive user purge.
- Here is an example of a batch file which copies the
- DORINFO1.DEF file to the Planet Mongers directory then loads the
- fossil driver, then the program itself, unloads the fossil driver
- to conserve space, and finally copies the SCOREBUL.TXT to your
- bulletin directory and then renames it to the appropriate name:
-
- @echo off <--Hide Commands
- copy c:\bbs\dorinfo1.def c:\planet <--Copies DORINFO1.DEF
- cd\planet <--Changes to Door Directory
- bnu <--Loads the fossil driver
- monger <--Loads the door
- bnu /u <--unloads the door
- copy scorebul.txt c:\bbs <--Copies the Score File
- cd\bbs <--Changes to BBS Directory
- ren scorebul.txt bullet1.bul <--Renames score file to
- bulletin file
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