Greetings from the ConSorTium!

For info concerning Door World magazine please see the note at the end
of this update document.

The .EXE files that come in this archive can be copied directly over the
corresponding .EXE files in your Terra-Firma subdirectory. PLEASE make a
copy of the existing .EXE's before you write over them. If you encounter
any difficulties with these newer versions you can always go back to your
originals.

        What's new......& why the update......

You can all thank Rob McCalla of the Heavy Metal BBS in VA 1:163/310
for pointing me in the right direction to find and squash these bugs!!
Thanks a million Rob for sending me your Zipped up game to experiment
on and taking so much interest in Terra-Firma. I owe ya one!!

The are a few other bugs that have been sent in and are in the process
of being fixed. None however that will hamper game play like the ones below.
In a few weeks of this file date 1-22-1995 I should  have another TERRAFIX
bug update file on my BBS for downloading or file request.

The following bugs were serious enough for me to get this file out to you
all.

1. I'm surprised I didn't get a lot of complaints about this. A bug crept
up in the CYCLE.EXE program which was giving an error 55. This is a file
already open error. When I changed the CYCLE.EXE last time, I left in a
useless line of code which was mucking things up. Totally my fault! This
bug was causing a no finish with the CYCLE program causing things like
old players never being deleted and multiple satellite sightings in the
game.

2. When I changed my new Error checking routine to make sure that when
players dropped carrier and other assorted silly things, all the Terra
files would get saved properly. What I didn't think about was the fact
that if I set up these same routines in the opening of Terra and a user
dropped carrier before they signed into the game that the new error
routine would try and write to files that didn't even exist yet! Of
course this never happened on my system or any of the beta systems because
we all have perfect users. <G> Any way this would cause Terra to hang,
waiting for the poor unsuspecting SysOp to press a key thereby hanging the
BBS! Very sloppy, with no excuse. I would be pissed if it happened on my
system from a door game....It's fixed now...

3. Added a feature while I was fixing the opening bug. You can now add a
straight ASCII text file to your Terra subdirectory with the names of any 
users that may have helped you pay for Terra-Firma. This will only show in 
the registered version (obviously). You could also put something funny in 
the file if you wish. Just don't make it more that 5 or 6 lines long. Each 
line should be no longer than 78 characters. 
The file name must be OTHERS.TXT 

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4. My BBS and Voice phone support number has changed! Make a note...
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New BBS # (413).684.0145

New Voice (413).684.5294

InterNet nugicon@delphi.com

FiDoNet  1:321/227

        All you sysops take note. I am working on the staff of the NEW
        Door World Magazine as a tech advisor. This magazine is devoted 
        to Doors and Door oriented BBS's. They are looking for articles 
        about BBS's, sysops and door authors. They will also advertise your 
        doors or bbs's for FREE for the first few months. You can contact 
        them on my BBS or send NetMail to me at my fido address or internet 
        address. I will forward it to the appropriate persons. Door World 
        is using my BBS system as a focal point for downloads and uploads. 
        If you are interested please FREQ DORWORLD from my fido number. 
        It is also available for download from my bbs.


Dave Wendling