-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | | O | | K | | E | | R | | S | | Q | | U | | A | | R | | E | | S | |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| |___| -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SysOp Docs Version 1.3 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Contents: 1) Introduction. 2) How to Install this Door. 3) Next Project: Lost Obscure Realms of Darconia. 4) BBS Numbers 5) History .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 1) Introduction: Pokersquares is a visual solitaire card game that takees placee inside of a 5 x 5 grid. This game has been compiled with SAS C 6.57 as a STDIO door. This means that this game should virtually work with any Amiga BBS out there. :) Yeah that is right I think Amiga Doors should bee able to run under any Amiga BBS. I hate it just as much as you do when I see some Door I can't run just cause the author decided to make it for his kind of BBS only. Also this game and its source are FREEWARE. You are free to copy, modify and pass out modified versions of this game as you see fit. I guess I'm just usually the GNU sort of guy cept for maybe my next project. But I will talk about that later. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 2) How to Install this Door. Unlike previous versions Pokersquares is directory smart. So just copy one of the pokersquares executable to any directory that you want to. The file will make its own data file there and thats abot it. Now to choose what executable you want depends on what CPU you have. The one that is called just PokerSquares is compiled for the 68000 processor and thus will run under any 68k based processor. So if you not sure what kind of CPU you have just use it. Now if you have like a 68030 for instance and want to take advantage of your hardware just rename PokerSquares.030 to PokerSquares and copy it wherever you plan to run it from. The same is true for PokerSquares.020, .040, .060 etc. Now it is time to install this game on the BBS side of your Computer. I am a CNet/4 Sysop myself. This means that from experiance with the software I am able to descripe installation on it much better than on say like DLG, E or what have you. However there will be a general installation instruction that if you are a smart sysop should help you install this game on your BBS. If you know how to install PokerSquares on your type of BBS pleasee be free to email Star Gazer who uploads this game for me to the Aminet and he'll pass the info along to me. Or if you really nice guess you could always call ViP ;) For CNet: On CNet go to your PFiles or Doors directory an type ADD, once you press enter you should see something like "Text, Arexx, Dos, Para or CNet? ". Choose [D] for Dos. and you should get a VDE screen. Change the values as follows. DOS filename : /PokerSquares Description : Poker Squares Argument : "%1" Disable More?: YES Raw Mode : NO Note: symbolizes where pokersquares is at.. so if it is in Doors:Pokersquares/ put that and not For TransAmiga: I like to thank however passed Star Gazer that arexx script to launch Poker Squares from TransAmiga. However, I have lost the email that he sent me along with the script so now I have no idea who it was. :) However if I ever do find out again I put a thank you with your name on here.. But anyways... Installing for TransAmiga should now be simple. Just add the PokerSquares.Trans file however you would add an arexx door to transamiga (which I'm sure is pretty easy to do) and that should be it. General Installation: The game runs even from AmigaDos which is however not recomended due to Amiga Ansi and Amiga Font but the args for this is: PokerSquares Where Pokersquares is the program itself and would be the User's name or handle. on most BBSs they use some form of a % command to parse the handle from the BBS to the game. You should know what it is if you add alot of AmigaDos doors to your BBS.. something like "%name" %1 "%1" %name... where usually the quotes are used to parse the entire handle as one arguement might not be so on some BBSs so you'll have to experiment.. also your software may have a diffrent place for the program's path and the program's arg.. Like Cnet does. Or it could be all on thee same line and be more like dos argument: PokerSquares "%name" Could be Doors:Pokersquares/ or whatever... :P hope this helps in anyway .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 3) Next Project It may take some time before you see any updates of this program from me. This is because I am much more interested in working on Realms of Darconia a RPG I am currently working on. I wrote Poker Squares so it be pretty much stable the first time I released it so I wouldn't have to worry about it again. :) However, people have been coming up with suggestions for the game.. No bug reports yet. So I have every now and then looked at Poker Squares source and made a few simple modifications. Be free to make your own versions of Poker Squares as you please.. Be nice though if you mention lil ol me somewhere in there :) considering all the code and graphics I made for it. Now as for Realms of Darconia I would like to say Coming Soon but that is not the case. It is a much more complicated project than Poker Squares. :) Heh I kinda knew there prolly be little if any bugs in Pokersquares when I first released it but Realms of Darconia :) I knew I'll find alot of bugs now and then due to how complicated it is.. Still working on the character generatoree who's chargen.c file is alrady 197k in size if that tells you anything. This next game won't be freeware though cause it is alot of work. However I don't like unregistered version of most stuff I see. The game will still be winnable just that you won't get all the goodies in the Unreg version. say the unreg comes with the standard AD&D races and classes Fighter, Mage, Cleric and Thief.. Well the Registered version will have more races and classes, Town editor, Map editor, Character editor, Random Map Generator and so on.. tons of goodies along with a config program but all this is prolly a long ways off anyways.. Just would like to explain why if Pokersquares doesn't get my full attention. Gangsta .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 4) BBS Numbers For the latest version of this and other games call: V.iolent I.n P.ublic (972) 494-1024 Star Streams (972) 938-7115 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. History: Version 1.0 - First Release, pretty stable game. Version 1.1 - Added default answers to questions that the game asked player, Added HDCS characters instead of special low askii suit chars for people who couldn't use the suit characters with their terms. Version 1.2 - Included TransAmiga .rexx script to launch program from that software. Added that Suit and Instruction questions are only asked when the player first plays. Version 1.3 - Made Pokersquares directory Smart so it needs no longer be in Doors:Pokersquares/ ... Pokersquares now writes the data file in the program's own directory. Thanks to HMetal and Trolan for helping me with thee getprogramdir() currentdir() stuff in the amiga standard lib.. I lack the text on the Dos Protos so started doing it from what semth logical. :) actually I had already had it setup here in Lord but I tricked myself cause I would quit that alpha game with ctrl c's and didn't change the lock back to the original causing me to think that those statements didn't work. But Hmetal helped me realize (just didn't think about it) that i had to do it before every exit(); .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. P.S :P I hate writing DOCS. :)