__________________________________ SOLITAIRE Copyright (c) 1991 Written by: Danny Davis ___________________________________ General Information: -------------------- This program is provided as is with no warranties whatsoever. We will not be held liable for any damages, or losses from the use of this software. Also I will not be responsible for any inability to use this software. This program has been tested and tested again and I have yet to have any problems arise from the use of this program. This program may be used by you for 30 days to evaluate and decide if you wish to REGISTER this program. If you decide that you do not wish to REGISTER this program then please remove it from your BBS door section. In the event you wish to REGISTER this door please print out the REGISTER.TXT and send it to me at the address provided at the end of the txt file. You may freely distribute this program as long as no money is charged for it and no alteration's are made to the program or its files. REQUIREMENTS: _____________ BRUN45.EXE Runtime File (This is Needed For The Program to Run) CGA Monitor (sysop end only, MONO ok on remote providing remote user receives ansi) IMB XT/AT/386 Also supports Desqview. This program has been tested on the following systems. Wildcat 2,X, and 3.0 Gap v4.0 and Greater Pcboard v14.0 QuickBBS v2.64 thru v2.75 DorinofX.Def Drop Files ----------------------- This program should also work with other DORINFOx.DEF producing BBS's, such as Remote Access, RBBS, and SuperBBS. For other BBS's not mentioned, there are MANY door conversion utilities available. You will also need a copy of Brun45.exe in your path or file directory along with SOLITAIRE. My suggestion is to have it in your dos path so you don't have duplicate copies of it anywhere. INSTALLATION OF THE DOOR: _________________________ USING THE INSTALL PROGRAM: -------------------------- I have made a program called INSTALL that will automatically make the SOL.CNF file needed to run the program. 1. First create a directory for the program and place all the files in that directory. C:\WILDCAT\DOOR\SOL (whatever you door directory will be) 2. Below is what the SOL.CNF file should look like. Line one is the path to your door, which should be the same as your path above. Line two is the name of your BBS Line three MUST have a 0 (zero) on this line. (Or 1 (one) for PCBoard). Line four is your name that you use on your BBS. Line five is where you specify if you are running at lock baud or not. If you are running lock baud then enter the baud rate....ie 9600 or 19200 or 38400. Enter 0 for none. Line six is where you specify what type of BBS software you have Line seven is where you will specify the ANSI Bulletin path and filename. Line eight is where you will specify the ANSI Bulletin path and filename. Line nine is where you specify the number of points a player is to receive for each card played on the ACE stack. This number is from 1 - 10. Line ten is where you tell the game how many points to take away for each game played. The number can be from 1 - 150. 100 is a nice figure to go with. Okay here is what the whole thing should look like after you finish: C:\WILDCAT\DOOR\SOL The Lighthouse BBS 0 (or a 1 for PCBoard) Danny Davis 19200 or 0 for none WC3 C:\WILDCAT\BULL\BULL1.ANS C:\WILDCAT\BULL\BULL1.ASC 10 100 3. Okay now lets look at are batch file to start the game. WILDCAT 2.X DOOR#.BAT : ----------------------- DOOR#.BAT CD\WILDCAT\DOOR\SOL COPY C:\WILDCAT\CALLINFO.BBS SOL CD\WILDCAT CAT Okay you noticed that the Callinfo.bbs has to be copied to the game path. If it doesn't fine the Callinfo.bbs file then it will exit back to the BBS. Wildcat 3.0 ----------- This will run the same as above except of coping the callinfo.bbs you'll copy the DOOR.SYS file. QuickBBS & DORINFOx.DEF (a TYPE 15 for QuickBBS) ----------------------- You may specify up to 9 different DorinfoX.def 's by selection from within the install program. D: CD\DOORS\SOL copy c:\qbbs\dorinfo1.def SOL C: CD\QBBS GOTO RESTART DORINFOx.DEF has to be copied to the game path. If it doesn't find the DORINFOx.DEF file, then it will exit back to the BBS. To run as a type 7 (for QuickBBS), simply put the SOL.BAT file in the QuickBBS directory, using "*C /C SOL.BAT" in the optional data line in the type 7 menu. (there are other ways to do it, this is the easiest). Gap and Pcboard: ________________ DOOR#.BAT CD\DOOR\SOL SOL CD\GAP GAP For Local Players (Non BBS) ___________________________ 1. Okay just edit the SOL.CNF to state the path where your SOLITAIRE files are. See example below. Plus use the /LOCAL command Okay lets say my path is C:\SOL The SOL.CNF will look like the following: C:\SOL The Lighthouse BBS 'Whatever you wish for this line 0 'Leave this to 0 Danny Davis 'Your Name 0 'You need not to speciffy LockBaud WC3 'BBS type PATH\FILENAME 'for ansi bulletin PATH\FILENAME 'for ascii bulletin 10 'points for cards played 100 'deduction points for each game Maintenance : ------------- Also enclosed is a maintenance file that needs to be ran once a day to keep the player.dat file clean. By passing a nuber value from 8-30 you can specify how many days you will allow a user to stay in the door before being deleted. i.e. MAINT 17 'this allows 17 days before a player is deleted for non-use SOLBULL : ---------- This file can be ran each time the door is exited or in a nightly batch file. It will make a ANSI and a ASCII Bulletin from the information you specify in your installation module. Page and Comm Control Files : ----------------------------- Read the PAGE.CTL and COMM_IRQ.CTL files and configure it to meet your needs. Multi - Line BBS : ------------------ Well this is a rather simple task. When you run the install program you can pick upto 4 different configuration files. To run this door as a multi door all you need to do is place the following statement: SOL SOL1.CNF And so on for the rest of the configuration files. The reason for this is so you may specify the different LOCKBAUD rates for each node. Support BBS : ------------- The Lighthouse BBS Midnight Madness 209-442-8329 209-252-8466 Fido Net 1:205/75 Fido Net 1:205/76 Both Systems Run On A US ROBOTICS DUAL STANDARD Registration of this door will cost you $12.50 plus shipping and handling. With your registration you will recieve a key file that will work with all future versions of SOLITAIRE.