Suburban Software Chuck Valecek I would like to take a minute here and thank Heather Broadhurst for creating the original question file and the new additional question file with 600+ new questions. Thank you Heather!!! If you wondering what I look like view the CFV.GIF file included with this release PLEASE USE THE MKKOB712.EXE TO CREATE THE CNF FILE!!!! BACKUP ALL YOUR FILES FIRST!!!!!! __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.13 06/07/91 Missed another $COLOR$ in the points version of the door. Some have reported that the chances should as zero. To be safe run MKKOB713.EXE and check the options in the configuration file. Version 7.12 06/05/91 I owe everyone an apology on the last few releases of this door. I lost my hard drive and lost the latest version of this door. I thought I had rebuilt the program but it seems that I left a few options out. Version 7.11 would not read the CNF file for the name of the question file or the name of the new question file. In this release I added one more option to the door. This one allows the SYSOP to pay the door more than once a day. This was placed into the door for testing the door on your system, BUT you must be logged in as SYSOP for it to work properly. Use the MKKOB712.EXE to add this entry in the CNF file. Version 7.11 05/15/91 This quick release corrects the creation of the graphics bulletin. The previous version created the bulletin with $COLOR$ codes instead of the correct color. Version 7.10 05/13/91 No chnages to the door in this release. The door has been recompiled with ProKit version 3.4. The door now supports non-standard comm ports like ProDoor does. Support has been added for non-standard COM port configurations. To use com ports other than the normal COM1 and COM2, you can now insert the following statements in your BOARD.BAT file: SET COMBASE=nnnn ;port base I/O address (decimal) SET COMIRQ=n ;port IRQ setting __________________________________________________________________________ MKKOB709.EXE - This is the new Configuration program for this release and this release only. It will NOT work with earlier versions of the door. Version 7.09 10/08/90 Created a BUG in the non point version. It would not let you run a non point version at all. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.08 - 10/04/90 (What another 7.08?) Sorry about the last release, I tried to get it off Salt Air before too many of you downloaded it. I had a problem with the program to create the CNF file and it was really screwing up the DOOR. Version 7.08 - 09/23/90 This is just a quicky type release. I have found a real DUMB programming error. I was reading the question file sequentially even though I knew the question number I wanted. This added quite a bit of time to read thru the file if you were on question 1000 or so. Also this release will solve some of the runtime errors running on multinode systems when more than 1 user access the files. I opened the question file and didn't close it until the game was over. It is closed right away now. This release contains three (3) new options. New Option 1) This option is called Adopt-a-door. I have seen this on another door, by Al Lawerence. This allows a user to have his/her name appear as the person who contributed the monies to register the door for the sysop. Some users like having their name in "LIGHTS" and this little option will do just that. You can toggle it on or off through the CNF file. If on and the door is registered the screen that the sysop creates will be displayed to all that play the game. If the door is not registered and the sysop wants to he may select this option and the door will display a message to the user explaining the adopt-a-door policy. This may intice users into donating the money to register the door and the sysop and myself will be thankful! Again this is an option that can be toggle on or off by the sysop. The name of the file that will be displayed is ADOPT.DAT. You can create this file with any editor or THEDRAW. A sample file is included. New Option 2) This option name and location of the QUESTION.DAT. This will allow you to share the same question file for more than one game. New Option 3) This option is the name and location of the NEW_QUES.DAT file. This will allow you to share a common new question file for multiple nodes or games. I was planning on adding the new @color codes for the 14.5 release of PCBoard but since the door is running on alot of different bulletin board software I postponed this modification until the next release when I will support either types of color bulletins. I am sorry to say that this version still does not support non-ansi users. I will look be looking into that but not sure when that will be. Scrolling text off a screen is a little tacky! The door will remind the user that it requires ansi graphics and will return to the system if the user elects to. Keep the suggestions coming. Please write your sugestions down on paper as I read messages and forget (senile) to jot them down. Forward them to me by mail and I will try to include them in the next release. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.07 There was a slight bug in the door if you decided NOT to run the Quen of the Board option. This has been corrected in this release. Also added ANOTHER option, this one allows you to deduct points from the amount the user is playing for. If the user challenged the first position he would be playing for 2500 points. If you elected to deduct points for each wrong answer, say 250, the first guess would be worth 2500, the second guess would be worth 2250 and the third guess would be 2000. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.06 Minor change from 7.05. Correctly disabled the HOT Key option if a user had this option set in ProDoor and opened this DOOR. Since this program has so many options I have created a MKKOBCNF program that will prompt you for the options and create the config file for you. No more guessing. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.05 WARNING!!!!!!! BACKUP your old files before converting!!! This release requires a conversion of the user file One slight bug has been corrected. If a user dropped out of the door he was allowed to re-enter the door. Now the door will update his record as being on that day. This way they cannot cheat and come back to answer the question. Since ProDoor has the HotKey option it is carried into the door also. It took a little checking but I think I can reset it in the door. The door will ask ONE MORE time if the user is a Male/Female and then will store this in the user file. This is why the user file MUST be converted. If you fail to convert the userfile you will get a RUN TIME ERROR!. The conversion program is CONV705.EXE and is included in this package. I have also reformatted the answer format shown to the user. It will show the max number of characters and remind then of the time limit. Check this!! Tell your female users that now they door will display a QUEEN of the Board bulletin if the top person is a female!! If the top person is a male then the door will create a King of the Board as in the past. Maybe this will give them some incentive. Many sysops have requested the following and all have been placed in the door by selecting the option. a) Keep the same question until it is answered correctly This was taken out in prior releases but so many have asked that it be placed back in that I decided to make it a sysop option. b) Reset the times challenged so that next time on it will display only the times lost and challenged since last time on c) Allow the 1st place person to earn points by answering more questions, This will allow a player insure his 1st place standing, at least for awhile. You can specify the point value to be assigned for this position. d) Allow the door to display the correct answer if it has been answered wrong __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.04 No bugs this release just added somemore options that sysops have requested. One biggy is the option to allow the program to display Queen of the Board, thats right!! This is selected through the CNF file and will prompt the user for a M/F response. This will store the M/F in the file but will allow the program to display a different screen and create a bulletin with King or Queen on the heading. If you do not want this just put a N in the cfg file. Also I added a option to allow the sysop to control the amount of time the user gets to answer the question. Normally the keyboard timeout uses the amount of time you specified in the PCBoard setup for keyboard timeout. You may override this by inserting a number in the cnf file. (See the Docs on these new options) __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.03 Add more logic to handle drop of carrier. Reports stated that the door would hang the system when carrier was dropped. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.02 Corrected a problem with special characters not being formatted correctly to the user. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.01 Thought I had the points problem resolved when a user got over 32000 points and lost but I guess I didn't. This release should do it. . __________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.0 Well I believe that most of the bugs are out. Why do I say MOST? I have been in programming for 15 years and a program is never bug free!. So here is the production copy of this door. It has been tested on several systems across the country and have not had any serious problems. This release has the following changes. 1) Changed KINGPTS.BUL file to KINGPTS and created a graphics version of the file so that it may be used as a additional bulletin. 2) Added a (y/N) prompt for viewing the Poinys file when the user is logging off. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.06 If a user had over 32000 points and lost his points, got screwed up and became a credit number. For you programmers out there I swapped a LONGINIT to a INTEGER and back. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.05 If the next question file reached the maximum of the total number of questions you have it would not reset back to 2. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.04 This is crazy! A release a day keeps the doctor away! The point option in the door was not applied correctly. It was possible to challenge the 2 person up and instead of getting 2000 points end up with only 1500. As you can see these are only minor bugs so far. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.03 Had a report that the door took to long to recycle after carrier was dropped. Added more checks in the logic for loss of carrier. Also noticed that when first creating the KING.USR the sysops name would show more than once. Corrected this so that when the file is first created the sysop gets a message that there is no one to challange since he is in the first position. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.02 Added the Points option to the door. This can be set in the CNF file if you want it on. Also added a KINGPTS.BUL file showing the Point Standings. This will only created if the point option is set. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.01 Truncated the new question entered by a user. Added a format line for the new question & answer showing how many characters are left. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 6.00 Initial release