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                            Gopher Hunt  v1.1
              Copyright (C) 1993 RenDic Software Impresarios
                        Doug Lewis & Rick Damiani
                           All rights reserved

 
























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WARRANTY
~~~~~~~~
     GOPHER HUNT IS SUPPLIED AS IS.  THE AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, 
     EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES 
     OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. THE AUTHORS ASSUME 
     NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL, WHICH MAY RESULT 
     FROM THE USE OF GOPHER HUNT.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE & LICENSE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     GOPHER HUNT is distributed as SHAREWARE.  Under this concept you may 
     use the SHAREWARE (UnRegistered) version for a reasonable period of 
     time, which we consider to be 30 days, after which you MUST register 
     your copy or discontinue usage all together.  The trial version 
     contains all features described in the documents and is NOT CRIPPLED 
     and will NOT EXPIRE in any way.

     Licensee shall not, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, 
     disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed
     program. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and 
     automatic termination of this license and legal action.

With that out of the way we can get down to the door itself.


WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     
     For a listing of files and a brief description of what they are see
     the "PACKING.LST" file included in this archive. 


WHAT GOPHER HUNT CREATES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     GOPHSCOR.BIN    High score file. If this file isn't found in the 
                     current directory Gopher Hunt will create it after 
                     the game is played for the first time.  To reset 
                     your high scores simply delete this file.


REGISTERED VERSION:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Registered users will receive the latest version of the door PLUS:

     GOPHBUL.EXE     An ANSI bulletin generator for Gopher Hunt.
     GOPHBUL.DOC     The docs explaining gophbul execution.

     Rick and Doug's undying gratitude and a key file that will customize 
     Gopher Hunt's exit message with the name of your BBS.













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INSTALLATION:
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     Installation of this door is fairly easy if you use WildCat! 3.x or
     PCBoard 12.0 to 14.x or any BBS that supports DOOR.SYS, CALLINFO.BBS, 
     PCBOARD.SYS, or DORINFOx.DEF. For other BBS's Gopher Hunt supports 
     GENERIC.SYS (described below)

     Gopher Hunt is fully Multi-Node capable.

THE COMMAND LINE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     GOPHER [drive:][path]DOOR.SYS              For standard comports  

     GOPHER [drive:][path]DOOR.SYS PORT:03F8:5  For nonstandard ports. The 
                                                first number is the address 
                                                in hex and second is the IRQ 
                                                assigned to that port.

     GOPHER [drive:][path]DOOR.SYS PORT:F:1     Fossil driver: port 1

     GOPHER [drive:][path]DOOR.SYS PORT:D:1     Digiboard: channel 1


     If you are using environment variables such as those used by PCBoard 
     the following commands will also work:

     GOPHER %PCBDRIVE%%PCBDIR%\DOOR.SYS
     GOPHER C:%PCBDIR%\DOOR.SYS

     To use the environment variables you will need to use the dos SET 
     command in the batch file that starts your bbs software such as:

     SET PCBDRIVE=C:
     SET PCBDIR=\WC30\WCWORK\NODE1

Note: If you need to use a nonstandard port, fossil driver or Digiboard 
      the first parameter must be the system drop file (DOOR.SYS etc..) 
      and the second must be the PORT: command with no spaces.


USING GENERIC.SYS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     The GENERIC.SYS file is a standard ASCII file and contains 3 lines, 
     each followed by a carriage return/line feed. It can be created using 
     any ascii text editor. The format is:

        line 1  -  The BBS operator's name.
        line 2  -  The COM port in use.
        line 3  -  Time allowed in door.

     Below is an example GENERIC.SYS file with a SysOp name of Doug Lewis, 
     using Com port 1, and allowing 50 minutes in the door.

          Doug Lewis
          COM1:
          50

     Gopher Hunt will ask the for the user's name and ask the user if they 
     have ANSI support available.



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WARNING:
~~~~~~~
     All the *.ANS files included in the distribution archive MUST be in 
     the directory that you start Gopher Hunt from. If any of the ANSI 
     screens are missing Gopher Hunt will display an error message when 
     it tries to read the file. If a GOPHSCOR.BIN file isn't found in the 
     current directory it will be created.


PLAYING THE GAME:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Really the game is pretty simple. Move the cursor around the screen 
     using the numeric keypad (Numlock must be ON). When you are over the 
     middle portion of the gopher press either the '5' or '0' keys to kill 
     the gopher. If you hit ten gophers you advance to the next level. 
     With each level the gophers remain on the screen 1/2 second less.
                                                                     
     At any time during the game the player can get help (press 'H') or 
     see the current high scores (press 'S'). Additionally the following 
     keys are available to the SysOp:

             Sysop keys
             ~~~~~~~~~~
              * F3        Toggle printer on/off

              * F4        Toggle pagebell on/off

                F5        Shell to DOS

              * F7        Toggle caller alarm on/off

                F8        Return user to system

                F9        Toggle display on/off

                F10       Chat mode  (use the ESCAPE key to exit)

                ALT-H     Toggle between different status lines

              * ALT-N     Toggle SysOp on next

              * ALT-X     Toggle exit to dos after call
                          and help lines

     Alternately pressing the ALT-H key will bring up the next status line 
     screen.  The 1st screen is a help screen, the second screen shows your 
     COM port status.

     NOTE: Items marked with an '*' are only functional with PCBoard systems.













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Contacting the Authors:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     You can always find the most recent version of Gopher Hunt at 
     http://BBSFiles.com

                                                                     

SPECIAL NOTES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     SPITFIRE BBSs:  You will need to use the DOOR.SYS file that 
                     SPITFIRE creates instead of the SFDOORS.DAT
                     By using the DOOR.SYS file the game will 
                     function as intended.  You simply pass the
                     path and file name of the door.sys file on
                     the command line like this:

             gopher c:\sf\door.sys

     GT Power BBSs:  You will need to use the GENERIC.SYS file until 
                     we can get the exact specifications for 
                     GTUSER.BBS to put in the code of our door routine.  
                     An example of a GENERIC.SYS file is shown above.

     If you are running a bbs package that isn't mentioned in our docs 
     and are having difficulty in getting the door to run call our 
     support bbs listed above and leave us the details of your software 
     requirements and we will do our best to make the changes to the 
     door so it will run for you.

                                                                     
     Any specific hardware/software names used in this manual are the
     (registered) trademarks of the companies mentioned.
                                                                    
                                                                     
ALTERNATE INSTALL:                                  
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     Should you desire to make more than one game available or even seperate
     games for individual nodes you may have any number of directories under
     gopher that has the display files in it and when you execute the door
     make sure you execute gopher from the directory that corresponds to the
     game or node you are running. i.e.:
                                                                     
         c:\gopher\node1>\gopher\gopher door.sys                     
                                                                     

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Special Thanks go to all of our BETA TESTERS and fellow SYSOPS who have
provided their assistance and time: 

Mike Labellarte of "Arte Graphics BBS"   (708) 259-0215 Node 1  WildCat!
                                         (708) 259-6445 Node 2  1:115/278

Chris Koziol of "Sun Surf & Serenity"    (708) 453-6630 Node 1  WildCat!
                                         (708) 453-1321 Node 2  1:115/113

Ray Sulich of "Straight Board BBS"       (708) 689-1980 Node 1  PCBoard
                                         (708) 689-0119 Node 2

David Lewis of "ThunderBolt BBS"         (708) 689-4763         GT Power

Bruce Calvert of "Toads Place BBS"       (708) 578-9642         Spitfire
                                                                1:115/950.2

Tony Conte of "TNT Disk Company BBS"     (708) 473-9327         Maximus
                                                                1:115/950

A VERY SPECIAL thanks to our wives Yvonne and Debbie for putting up with
our countless hours on the computers and for making sure we didn't forget
they were there!  <BIG GRIN>






















                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
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