Vampire's Castle v1.1 Copyright (C) 1994 by The Software System Written by Chuck Roman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is an online door game for most Amiga Bulletin Board Systems. It will cleanly exit when send a CTRL-C signal and this has been tested with CNet and DLG. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Could someone please post this file on Aminet and ADS. I don't know how to do either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set up goes as follows: Set up has been changed a little since version 1.0. Choose a location to put the files 'vampire11' and 'vampire.scores'. The file 'vampire.scores' must exist or the game will exit. It may be blank, but it must exist. This is the usage for the program. You will also get this if you enter wrong arguments for the program. All 3 arguments are required. Vampire's Castle v1.1 by Chuck Roman Usage: Vampire1.1 ["USERNAME"] [ANSI/COLOR/ASCII/MONO] [PATH of files] The first argument is the callers name in quotes. The second is something telling it whether to use Color or not. The CNet flag for this is %28 which return ANSI or ASCII. The DLG flag is %ANSI (I think) which returns Color or Mono. The third argument is the pathname where it can find its score file. Under CNet, this usage should work: (Set up as a DOS program) DOS filename: PFiles:Adventure_games/Vampire11 Description : {C5}Vampire's Castle: {C3}Can {C1}YOU {C3}kill the count?{Q1} Arguments : "%1" %28 PFiles:Adventure_games Access groups : 0-31 Flags required : Post date : 26-Oct-94 00:23 Purge date : 00-Jan-00 00:00 Item use rate# : 0 Item disabled : No Debit daily time : No One user at a time : No Disable MCI : No Disable word-wrap : Yes Disable More? : Yes Disable sysop MCI : No Enable SkyPix : No Delete when purged : No Raw console startup : No The program should work OK on multi-lines and I believe it can even be made resident. The program runs in CLI mode. Do not use the RAW setting on CNet or DLG. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bugs? Possibly. Although nothing that I can find. The adventure CAN be solved, and it is definately not as complex as an Infocom. It's whole reason for existance is simple. I have NEVER seen any of the text adventures on my BBS actually solved by anyone. Vampire's Castle CAN be solved in a single session. This program is not public domain, nor shareware, nor crippleware, but Amiga SysOps are allowed to use it all they like WITHOUT CHARGE, KEYFILES, ETC. Would I like to receive anything for this program? Sure. If you are an author of a door for CNet or Standard I/O and it requires a keyfile registration, how about registering a copy for me and sending me a keyfile? (Addresses at end of file) After all, I have given you a program to use, how about returning the favor? I don't think this is much to ask, certainly much better than asking for 20 dollars or more. I have a 28.8K modem on my line, so It would only take seconds to send. (I'll still take 20 bucks though. B^) ) Programs that I have in the oven: DoorShell for DLG Pro This is completed, but unreleased. I received absolutely NO replies whatsoever to the above offer when made exclusively to DLG SysOps, so I am not bothering to help DLG owners with this tool. Apparently they are not interested in sharing good BBS utilities & games. Features: Puts all DLG menu commands in an easy to update ASCII file. Provides GLOBAL COMMANDS to DLG, A new log file system, an easy way to allow only one copy of a program to run, reduced amount of ASSIGNs for games, and a high-score updating system for games, etc.. It's basically a brand new menu system for DLG. Scramble (About 50% done. Multi-user interactive is being added.) A clone of the Scramble word game on the DELPHI service. Chuck Roman 3735 Stark Street Bellaire, OH 43906 InterNet address: harlock@AHCSUN1.Heuristics.Com ø-.. -. - -- ---- - - -- ---ø. | ____ _ ____ ___ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ __ |. | / / \/ / /_ /__> /__ / /_ / / /__/ /__> GVP G-FORCE :. : __/_ / / / /__ / / ___/ / /__ /__ /__ / / / / POWERED .. . ___ ___ __ __ __ ____ ___ :. | / / | / /_ /__> / > /__> / | / /_ Bellaire, Ohio USA |. | /__/ |/ /__ / / /__/ / / __/_ |/ /__ FIDOnet: 1:129/258 |. : STARnet: 614:1/4.0 :. . Node #1: 614-676-2505 28.8K baud V.FC .. : Node #2: 614-676-2446 14.4K baud V.32bis Sys: ]-[arloc]< CoSy: Guru :. | |. : Amiga * PC * z-FiLeZ * XXX * Games * Ham Radio * 'round 1.3 GiG-oH-bYtEs |. . Fred <>X Fish * AmiNet * Macintosh * G-Files * Dial-Out service * Bye Bye :. ø--- - -- - .-...ø.