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Trade Wars 2002 Electronic Mall
and ADD-ON by Neil Dupree
(c) Copyright 1992 By Neil Dupree
A.K.A. Pall Bearer 2@9805 WWIV NET
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Note: This Program is SHARE WARE... IT IS NOT FREE! To make full use of
the Trade Wars 2002 Electronic Mall send a SASE and a $5 MONEY ORDER to:
Neil Dupree
527 Alexander Street
Schenectady, NY 12308-1223
As soon as I recieve your money order, I will send you a registration
code. Please allow 3-6 weeks for delivery.
Although the Unregitered version of this program has all of the current
features, it WILL ONLY WRITE TO the Trade Wars data files for ONE USER.
You must make an account on your BBS with a USER NAME of SYSOP. The mall
will act as if it is registered for this user ONLY. For any other
account the Mall will be unregistered and not write to the TW2002 data
files.
With a registration code you will have a complete working version of this
program. And the registration code will be valid with all future
versions of this program that are written for TradeWars 2002 V1.03 (the
only version of TradeWars that the Mall currently works with). When the
Martin's release a new version of TradeWars I will try to upgrade the
Mall and hopefully not charge another fee. BUT I CAN'T make any
promises. It took alot of time to write this program, and I will be
adding more services as time goes on. So I think you're getting your
money's worth.
No as for what the Mall is....
The TradeWars 2002 Electronic Mall started when I was playing TW2002 one
day and said to myself, Gee I wish I could borrow money from the bank.
And many other ideas popped into my head as well.
Currently the Mall has the following services:
CQ & V Loan service... Which will give loans to players.
If a player defaults on a loan, they will loose their ship and
a large percentage of their experience.
Cecil the P.I. will tell (for a fee) where another trader is
hiding. Unless of course the other trader is 'Cloaked' or
in a citidel.
Intergalactic Transwarp Towing, these guy will
tow you anywhere, instantly.
Fid Dentor's Custom Ship Shop. Curently he will sell evil players
black market photon torpedos. And add more
holds/shields/fighters to a ship eyond normal spec (with a
catch). A modded ship will loose mods when porting, but this is
still handy.
The turn bank. Allows players to deposit/withdraw turns for
future use. Max turns in acount is configable along with a
ratio for turns on hand to turns to deposit (i.e. 5 turns= one
turn you can deposit)
Federation Payroll office. Let's players receive money from the
federation as a 'salary'. (for commisioned traders)
Large sum Credit transfer. Allows players to temporarily deposit
more than 100,000 credits in their galactic bank account (so that
mall prices may be higher than 100,000 credits.
Other services will be added in future releases.. Lemme know if
you have any ideas...
All transactions with the Mall are done through the Galactic Bank,
players have money removed from their account to pay for all services.
Well that's the Mall in a nutshell. The Mall is not so much a program
that was written, more accuratly it 'evolved' and is allways growing. To
this date Version 2.0 is the most current.
Please note: If for some reason you do not like a particular service in
the mall, each service can be deactivated i.e. "closed". For example,
people have said they don't like the idea of p-missles on any ship. So
the custom shop can be closed or the price for p-missles can be set to
over 10,000,000.
With that said lets move on to installation...
Version 2.0 is a MAJOR revision over all previous versions.
Installation is alot different so READ THIS SECTION CARFULLY!
Unzip TWMALL20.ZIP into your BBS directory. Run MALLCFG, select 'S'
system parameters and specify the path to your TW2002 directory. If you
have a reg code, you enter it here as well.
Edit TWMALL.CTL with a standard text editor. Make sure you specify your
BBS type and communications setup (i.e. fossil driver if you use one).
I can't tell you the specifics of installing TWMALL as a door on your
BBS, since there are many BBS packages out there, but since you got
TW2002 up and running, you should not have any problems.
You must edit your batch file that runs tw2002 to run the program
PREGAME.EXE before tw2002 executes... for example this COULD be the way
to do it.. (for a wwiv BBS)
CD\WWIV
PREGAME
CD\WWIV\TRADEWAR
TW2002 %1
If you experience problems with TWMALL not communicating with a remote
user, I strongly recommend you get a copy of BNU (a popular fossil
driver) and run the mall in FOSSIL mode. To do this, make sure your
MALL.CTL file contains the line 'FOSSIL' and does not contain the line
'INTERNAL'.
If you do run the Mall, but not tw2002, with fossil, make sure you
activate the fossil before running PREGAME.EXE and deactivate BNU when
done. (see the docs on BNU for help on this)
Another helpfull hint.... You may also try running TWmall (and pregame) with
a different drop file if the one you are using has trouble... To do this I
suggest DoorMaster (another shareware program most BBSs have).
******** Disclaimer ***********
I take no responsibility at all for any problems you have with this
program. It is being released AS IS, although I do hope you have no
problems...
I can be reached for help via the following:
U.S. Mail
Neil Dupree
527 Alexander Street
Schenectady, NY 12308-1223
voice (518) 382-8687 (6pm-9:30pm est) PLEASE NO LATE NIGHT CALLS (I work for a
living) !!!!