°±² Ambroshia: Test of Time 4.0 ²±° Copyright (c) 2003-2004 DISCLAIMER The author has taken every precaution to insure that no harm or damage will occur on computer systems operating this package. Nevertheless, the author shall NOT be held liable for whatever may happen on your computer system or to any computer systems which connects to your own as a result of operating this package. The user assumes full responsibility for the correct operation of this software package, whether harm or damage results from software error, hardware malfunction, or operator error. NO warranties are offered, expressly stated or implied, including without limitation or restriction any warranties of operation for a particular purpose and/or merchantability. If you do not agree with this then do NOT use this program. LICENSE AGREEMENT The game program, support files, and documentation are copyrighted products of Dominic Carretto. Dominic Carretto reserves all rights to these products. This is protected by the United States of America (USA) and International Copyright Laws. In no way shall the components of the game software package be reproduced or modified in any form or method without prior expressly written permission from Dominic Carretto. Tampering with or altering the contents or integrity of the game software package is prohibited. No fee may be charged by any agency other than Dominic Carretto beyond the cost of distributing unregistered copies without prior expressly written permission from Dominic Carretto. This game is distributed under the Shareware concept. You are allowed to operate this game for a trial period of thirty (30) days. After this trial period, you must register the game or discontinue its usage. Again if you do not agree with this then do NOT use this game. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: This SOFTWARE is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You acknowledge that no title to the intellectual property in the SOFTWARE is transferred to you. You further acknowledge that title and full ownership rights to the SOFTWARE will remain the exclusive property of the Dominic Carretto and you will not acquire any rights to the SOFTWARE except as expressly set forth in this license. You agree that any copies of the SOFTWARE will contain the same proprietary notices, which appear on and in the SOFTWARE. That's the end of the boring stuff! --==[Introduction]==--: THE WORLD OF AMBROSHIA 4.0: * 10 Player Races w/ DUEL RACE OPTIONS * 10 Character Classes w/ DUEL CLASS OPTIONS * 5 Profession Guilds! * 32bit DLL! For great multi-user gaming! * Linux/BSD Port Available! * DOOR32 Support! * NATIVE WINSERVER Support! * Written in C++ for the fastest gameplay possible! * Inspired by LORD, Usurper, Exitilus, and KNK! * Embark on user created Quests! * Magic and steel go hand in hand * Global In-Game TELEGRAMS! * Global Chat Room * Create your own Kingdom and maintain it, from the tax rate to the building of a great military.. * NEW KINGDOM TERRORISM AND ESPIONAGE OPTIONS! * New Kingdom Diplomacy and Trading! * Enjoy NEW marriage system and kids! * 2 types of Leveling..Experience and Profession level up's "ala Exitilus" * Hire Door Guards to protect you in the Inn.. * Acquire land for the growth of your kingdom.. * Recruit civilians for a militia to help you usurp the throne! * Use your leadership and treasury to boost civilian approval! * Annihilate your foe's financial investments and bank account.. * Great kingdom warfare with cannons, catapults and dragon riders! * Over 1000 monsters/creatures to fight against in varying environments including forests, mountains, sea battles, and dungeons... * Over 300 different types of armor/helmets/shields etc * Over 120 different types of weapons varying in quality and strength! * Over 100 different spell types for spell casters to learn.. * Unlimited amounts of money can now be held, and with that there is weapons that cost $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and more!!!! * Challenge your fellow companions in the great Ambroshia Arena where onlookers decide your fate! Your past evil and good deeds could save your life or end it... * And More! --==[UNREGISTERED LIMITATIONS]==--: Players will be unable to use the depository. Players cannot access high-level monsters. Players cannot send romantic mail. A few other small features disabled.. --==[Installation:]==--: Just run the installation executable and install to a directory of your choosing. Maintenance will run every new day when the first player in joins. If you would like to set maintenance to run at other times, just call AMBLaunch.exe /TRYMAINT in a nightly batch job.. If you notice that Maintenance has not run during the day, and you cannot get it to run. Please run AMBLaunch.exe /FORCEMAINT <--make sure nobody is online while this is run.. --==[Setup]==--: Here I will explain how to setup the game in a few different BBS environments. @@ Local Mode @@: Just run AMBLAUNCH.EXE /L @@ Synchronet @@: Startup Directory: c:\ambv4 Command Line: amblaunch.exe /N %N /D %F /SOCKET %H If you would like to hide the local window, add a -SILENT to the end of the command line. Multiple Users: Yes Native 32-bit: Yes BBS Drop File In: Mystic DOOR32.SYS Place Drop File In: Node Directory @@ WinServer @@: Step 1: You must run Ambroshia through a batch file. Copy WCAMB.BAT from your Ambroshia directory and place it wherever you normally put door batch files, and edit it as directed in the batch file's comments. Step 2: Configure your BBS to run the door as "Door32 Compatible" for Door Type, and "WCAMB.BAT" for the Batch File. Be sure to enable the Multi-user toggle option. Using these lines in the bat file. cd c:\ambv4 c:\ambv4\amblaunch.exe -n %wcnodeid% -d c:\doors\node%wcnodeid% Step 3: You must copy WinServers DOOR32.DLL file into the directory you put Ambroshia 4.0 in. This will allow the native support for WinServer in Ambroshia to work! @@ Mystic Setup @@: Command Data: c:\ambv4\amblaunch.exe /n %3 /d c:\mystic\temp%3 @@ ELEBBS Setup @@: Command Line: c:\ambv4\amblaunch.exe -n *N -d c:\ele\NODE*N\door32.sys -socket *W @@ GameSrv Setup @@: ** SELECT NO FOSSIL ** Command Line: c:\ambv4\amblaunch.exe /n *N /d c:\bbs\node*N /socket *H If you would like to hide the local window, add a -SILENT to the end of the command line. @@ Linux/FreeBSD Synchronet @@: 1: Name Ambroshia 2: Internal Code AMBROSH 3: Start-up Directory /usr/bbs/sbbs/doors/ambrosia 4: Command Line ambrosia -D %f 5: Clean-up Command Line 6: Execution Cost None 7: Access Requirements 8: Execution Requirements 9: Multiple Concurrent Users Yes 10: Intercept Standard I/O Yes 11: Native (32-bit) Executable Yes 12: Use Shell to Execute No 13: Modify User Data No 14: Execute on Event No 15: BBS Drop File Type GAP door.sys 16: Place Drop File In Node Directory 17: Time Options... --==[Resetting Game]==--: Run the AMBConfig.exe file and follow the on screen instructions to reset your realm world. --==[Installing Quests]==--: To install quests to your game, just edit the Quests.dat file located in the data directory and input the Quest name followed by a comma, the Authors name followed by a comma, then the actual Filename of the quest followed by a ending comma. Just put the actual quest file into the Quests directory. --==[Problems]==--: If maintenance does not run, and you receive a message stating you must manually run maint. Go to your Ambv4 directory and run AMBLAUNCH /TRYMAINT Also the game automatically creates daily backups. These are located in the Backups directory and are named according to the date it was created. To go back to a backup copy, just rename the file to game.db and copy it into your Data directory. If you run into a problem installing/setting up the door game, please contact me and I'll do my best to get you going. I am also available in the irc chat channel #ambroshia on irc.thebbs.org, as are a number of other sysops/bbs programmers. --==[Registration]==--: To register via PayPal: Go to http://www.thebbs.org/ambroshia and click on the registration link