M A Z E                    File [Maze40.Txt]

   Release: 4.00                                               January 1991
        By: Fast Fingers
       BBS: The Tool Box
        In: Sterling Heights, Michigan
     Phone: 313-247-0094
        Up: 24 hours/day @ 9600 baud
 Fido node: 1:120/181


  ===== SYSOP'S INFO =====================================================

  Release 4.0, 1/91, corrected/changed the following:

    1. Redesigned game for 43x80 screen size.  This doubled the size
       of each maze level.

    2. Seven maze levels, dungeon, where designed in new format.

    3. The three main menus were combined into a single menu and some
       commands were renamed to elimate naming conflicts in the first
       character of each commands name.

    4. The help logic was completed restructured around its very own
       menu subsystem.

    5. Support was added for sysop's that have modems and like to lock
       the baud rate between their computer and modem to maximize the
       throughput for the new modem products in the market place.

    6. Logic was added to allow a maze level to contain a path internal
       to a room .. leads to some interesting potential maze designs.
       For an example see the level 1 maze included with this release.

    7. The Black Knight logic was upgraded to allow variation in his
       speed during the attack .. he speeds up a little with each move.

    8. The use of the Repaint command creates an ansi picture file
       called Maze.Pic which is exactly what the screen looked like at
       that point in time.  Can be turned into a demo bulletion.

    9. The Vendor logic was completely reworked to allow multiple buys
       and or sells in one usage of the menu.

   10. A problem was fixed where new players that never moved were not
       being cloaked .. this resulted in several old players being in
       the same location and when one of them was attacked by a player
       and defeated a new opponent would show up in the same place,
       causing some confusion.

   11. Letters can be written to the SYSOP and can be read in mazeutil or
       in the maze game when the sysop logs on with the same name as
       he/she has in the file opendoor.sys as the sysop's name.
   
   12. The attack logic was completely rewritten to give the user more
       info on how its going.  A death certificate is now generated when
       appropriate.

   13. A lot of visuals were clean up for easier reading.

   14. The window painter, the code that displays all those popup
       boxes was reworked to do its job in just one pass.  The old code
       painted the box and then filled it in with text.

   15. When private letters are sent you can now pick address from list
       of game players rather than typing in part of user's name.

   16. A bug was fixed that would never allow a user to be killed in a
       counter attack by an off line user.


  As you can see this is a major rework of the game.  I expect all future
  improvements will be to this EGA/VGA version of the game rather than the
  80x25 screen version.



                                       Fast Fingers ...