=============================================================== +:+:+: G L O B A L W A R 2 :+:+:+ Online game for Xenolink BBS by Janne Paakkonen Adapted from the IBM PC's Global War by Joel Bergen For Sysops PLEASE NOTE: Global War is a pure XENOLINK DOOR It will not run on other bulletin board systems - - - This version is for Xenolink Z3 and Z4 - - - =============================================================== Finally got it done... it was 1,5 years since version 1.18d but better late than never; Global War 2, the sequel. Please read the GW2.History file to check out what has been changed in this release. There are lots of improvements and new features. Enjoy! Some words about the status of this program: GLOBAL WAR 2 FOR XENOLINK/AMIGA IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. YOU MAY USE, COPY AND DISTRIBUTE THIS PROGRAM IN UNLIMITED COPIES WITHOUT PAYMENT, TO OR FROM YOU, AS LONG AS THE DOCUMENTS AND EXECUTABLES ARE NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY. GW2 ARCHIVE CONTENTS The archive should contain these files: GlobalWar Executable (the game) GWConvert Executable (convert GW 1.18d -> GW 2) GWSysops.doc This file! ReadMeFirst.txt Hopefully you have already read this GW.con Configuration file GW.doc The online manual GWTeam.doc Team game manual GWRanks.txt Edit this to make your own rankings! GWPoints.doc Describes how the scores are counted GW2.History Read this to check out what has been changed since GW v1.18d INSTALLATION Update old 1.18d --> new GW2 format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you already have Global War 1.18d installed in your BBS, you must convert the GW.dat datafile to the new GW 2 format. This is necessary as the GW2 games holds more information than the old 1.18d games. Do the following: 1) Make sure that you have assigned DOORS: to the Xenolink doors directory. 2) Run GWConvert and follow the instructions. (It is a small program that should be in the GW2 archive) 3) Copy the new GW2 files over the old ones (simply copy all files from the GW2 archive to DOORS:GlobalWar/) 4) Done - play the game! If you install Global War for the first time... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Make a directory called "GlobalWar" in the Xenolink doors directory (usually assigned as DOORS:). Copy all files from the GW2 archive into DOORS:GlobalWar/ Edit the Xenolink doormenu.src file. Global War 2 should be executed in the following way: IF YOU HAVE XENOLINK VERSION Z3: XenolinkDoor "^10000^8^GlobalWar/GlobalWar" IF YOU HAVE XENOLINK VERSION Z4: XenolinkDoor "^10000^8^DOORS:GlobalWar/GlobalWar" Explanation about the parameters above: ^10000 use a stack of 10,000 bytes ^8 allow eight nodes to run GW2 simultaneously (any number of nodes will work, you decide) ^GlobalWar/GlobalWar (Z3) ^DOORS:GlobalWar/GlobalWar (Z4) this is the directory and filename in DOORS: (in other words, the complete pathname is DOORS:GlobalWar/GlobalWar) Now you're almost done. Just edit the GW.con configuration file (explained below) to customize GW2 for your system. GW.CON - THE GLOBAL WAR CONFIGURATION FILE This is really simple! Load the GW.con file (should be in the GW2 archive) into your favourite text editor and edit the lines according to the following: Line This is what you should put there... ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 Full pathname of the score file For eg. "DOORS:GlobalWar/GWscores.txt" 2 Pathname to Hall-of-all-times-top-scorers 3 The bbs name - is shown on the title screen 4 Pathname to the Global War game document 5 Pathname to the Team instructions 6 Pathname to the Points document 7 Number of days before deleting inactive players 8 Default number of games a player can start 9 Number of days a completed game can be examined before it's deleted 10 Number of days a game will wait for more players. If the game doesn't start in time, it will be deleted to make room for new games 11 Number of points a rank is worth 12 The default log-in name (normally the sysop). This name is used if you press enter with no name at the log-in prompt when running Global War from CLI. If you haven't typed a log-in name at line 12 and press enter (without entering any name at the login prompt), the program will quit. Name length is max 19 characters 13 Access level to enter the sysop's menu. If the user has a lower level, he cannot enter the menu. The access level here must be at least 1. Note; all pathnames can be maximum 64 bytes in length. When you are done with the GW.con file, save it in the DOORS:GlobalWar/ directory. If you have made a mistake somewhere, Global War 2 will inform you of the type of error and on which line it occured. ============= End of GW2 Sysop's documentation ===============