Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For those of you who never played Captain Nose's 8-Liner module on the various C*Base 64 boards that had it online, here's what it's all about: 8-Liner is a storyboard type thing. (Kind of like how you sometimes have a subboard where someone starts a story and another user adds to it, and so on.) Only difference is.. The user adding on to the story only gets to see the last TWO lines of the story! This makes it hard for users to stay on track with the original story. Users are not allowed to view the entire story until they actually finish adding on to the story. The name '8-Liner' comes from the fact that players can add on a max of 8 lines to the story and then must wait until the next day to addon to it again. Of course us SysOps can cheat, but I suggest you don't as it takes all the fun out of it.. You C*Base veterans out there will find that the colors are untouched from the actual C*Base version*. And all maintenance and installation of files is done INTERNALLY.. No writing text files, or editing them.. No editing the program file, just add it to your PFILE section and GO!! * Colors are not exactly the same due to differences in the Commodore 64 and ANSI colors.. Ie: C64 has 3 shades of gray whereas ANSI does not. If you do not have a 16 color terminal, then the colors will MOST definately not be the same as the C*Base ver.. I find that changing the CNet colors that have C64 equivalents to those equivalents via taking the numbers on the RGB settings for the A64 Package and changing the CNet colors to match.. Not all of them, just the ones that are on C64.. Ie: Do NOT change Dark Purple or Dark Cyan.. I can also say that ANSI pics look a HELL of a lot better with the Commodore 64 colors!!! Added Features over the C*Base version ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Select whether you want Co/SysOps to be able to cheat or not. (Add whenever, regardless of whether they already have, view the story any time they wish) * Automatic LOCK-UP protection protects your system from lockups!!! Just type in the AutoEXIT password at any editor prompts. This is good so that if you or you Co decide to be a lameass and modify my program, you won't fall on your ass.. If the program seems to be in an endless loop, just type in the password, and it will automatically exit the program. * ALL text is written so that it will ALWAYS wrap perfect no matter what. (Just like the CNet NEWUSER files!!) * The title screen automatically comes ready and centered on the screen for BOTH 40 and 80 column users * The editor page guides come ready for BOTH 40 & 80 column users.. ! Not a feature, but a change.. The lines are now limited to 79 columns instead of 39 columns so that 80 col users can type in a full line. 40 col users still have 79 columns, and one line appears as two for them, but hell, 40 columns is too short for 80 column users!! And plus, I'm sure 40 col users won't mind the extra line per line since it's the same amount of characters anyway.. I doubt anyone like to type for 3 seconds then WOOPS, ran out of space... Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just do the following: (It's SOOO Easy!!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Go into your modules (PFiles) directory. 2. Add it as an AREXX PFile by (A)dding it on the list. You can put the PROGRAM file wherever you wish, just make sure to load it from there in the SETTINGS.. The datafiles will be placed in PFiles: regardless of where the program is.. To turn the cheating for Co/SysOps off, just put this in the ARGUMENTS box. NOCHEAT This will disable cheating for access groups 30 and 31.. Note: The program will auto-detect if the user has maint access, and give him the access if it is appropriate. 3. Make sure to disable MORE prompts and make it so that only ONE user at a time can use it.. (Hey, I'm WORKING on a way to UNDO this step!!) 4. That's ALL folks!! Easiest Installation you ever did!! Usage of this FINE program ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OK When it all comes down to it.. Using it is the most important thing.. When you go into it, you see the fine title by Captain Nose.. THen you are prompted: Instructions [Y/N]: (The default for this ? is yes) Hitting Anything but N will display the instructions.. They are nothing but maybe 7 or 8 lines for 80 col users, but almost take up a page for 40 col users (assuming they only have 24 rows). After the Instructions are displayed, you go back to the beginning.. Type N this time, and you will see one of these two: Loading Story File 00,ok,00,00 Loading Story File 62,fnf,00,00 Don't worry.. Those are just the C64 error messages.. OK means that it found the story file and loaded it correctly and is C64 error #0, and fnf is the shortened form of File Not Found which is error #62 on a commie.. Now I forget what the other #s mean. Anyway, after that the main menu pops up.. Here it is in full: 8-Liner Main Menu ~~~~~~~ [A] Add to Story (Only available first time user plays) [V] View Story (Only available after user plays) [R] Reset Story (Only available if user has MAINT access) [Q] Quit '8-Liner' (Always available) Add - Technically just lets U add to the story.. It will tell you the last two lines of the story, then you can add your own lines (up to 8). You cannot add twice in a row.. (Unless of course you CHEAT!! PS only ag30-31 can cheat if you don't turn it off) The editor is explained in another section View - This will view the story after you have added to it. The story pauses every 20 lines and you must hit any key to resume it. Reset - This option allows the System Operators to RESET (Kill, Toast, DisRUPT!!) the current story and then are prompted to enter at least two lines for the new story, if you do not enter at least 2 lines, it will abort and go back to the main menu. Quit - This will quit the program and the save the ACTUAL story data file. You will get the same C64 error messages as when it loaded the data in the first place.. Maintenance ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is NONE!! Not even AUTOMAINT to add in to EVENTS.. The program will automatically keep track of who played that day and who didn't and allow them to play or not, then the next day everything is reset. And all users may play again that next day. Alias Change and Group Change ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I just recently changed my alias and group name.. Obviously you know my alias is Falcor and my group is EUPHORIA.. Greetz thrown out to... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Iceman/EUPHORIA ; Sir CyRo ; Game Master ; Nemesis ; Longtooth/EUPHORIA ; Hash Brown/EUPHORIA ; Karch ; MSP ; Ironworker ; Quicksand and all others I forgot to mention.. Contributions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry, but since this was originally Captain Nose's MODULE, I cannot accept any monetary contributions.. But ideas and comments are greatly appreciated. Please send your letters to: Euphoria Productions 222 S. Clinton St. Baltimore, MD 21224 United States of America RE: CNet PFiles Thank you for your support!!! As alwayz, friends don't let (girl)friends drive drunk.. Tell 'em to spend the NIGHT instead.. He he he...