From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.announce
Subject: triv047.zip Trivia Challenger door game
Date: 6 Jan 93 07:54:01 GMT
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Organization: University of Vaasa

-Subject: Re: Trivia Challenger door game (6 parts)
-To: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr)
-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:50:31 +0200 (EET)
-From: ts

As you know Garbo specializes somewhat in some areas.  BBS utilities
is one example of a category of programs that are outside our
specializations.  Although Trivia Challenger could be considered a
general educational game, it is very heavily BBS oriented. I am
somewhat hesitant to decide what to do with this upload. If there
was an option in the game that would allow the user play off-line as
many times a day as s/he wishes to, there would be no problem
whatsoever, because Trivia Challenger is well done, and would then
fit our category of a good educational game of wit.

After carefully pondering about this I nevertheless decided to make
a exception, and decided to accept Trivia Challenger. As I said it
is well done, and it presents Norwegian programming. (Yes, I am
deliberately favorable to fellow Finns and fellow Scandinavians). I
hope, however, that the author would seriously consider making an
off-line, single-person, no-daily-limits version.

At the same time I would like to ask our kind uploaders to consider
very carefully before offering BBS utilities to Garbo.  At the very
least, please read from garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/UPLOAD.INF what our usual
specializations and preferences are, please.

Thank you for your contribution.  This upload is now available as
 240902 Feb  1  1993 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/bbs/triv047.zip

(There is something wrong with the datestamps.  The archive's is
always set at Garbo to equal the latest within the archive).

   All the best, Timo

> Dear professor Salmi,
>
> Trivia Challenger is a shareware game I've written.  I would
> appreiciate it if you would consider it for inclusion in the
> garbo.uwasa.fi archives.
>
> Split up over the next six messages, there is one uuencoded ZIP archive
> with the game.
>
> To recreate the original uuencoded archive, remove mailer headers and
> any blank lines before and after each message (the message look like
> a lot of noise with each line of the same length.  Save each chunk in
> a separate file with names like "triv047.1" (for part 1), "triv047.2"
> (for part 2), etc. up to including part 6.  Concatenate it into an
> uuencoded file with the Unix command cat(1):
>
> % cat triv047.[1-6] > triv047.uu
>
> Then run uudecode to get the .zip archives, and FTP the .zip archives
> to an MS-DOS machine using _binary_ transfer mode.
>
> On MS-DOS, use DIR to look at the file sizes in bytes:
>
>     TRIV047  ZIP   240632
>                    ^^^^^^
> Look at the file size (indicated by "^^^^").  If it is as
> indicated above, you've got a good zip archive.  If the size
> differs, the file is damaged.  The most common problem is
> that it has been transferred in text mode.  This results
> in a small increase in size.  If this happens, you must
> transfer it again, making sure that your transfer program
> is set to _binary_ mode.
>
> Let me know how ut went -- did the archive unpack OK?
>
> PS: If you understand Norwegian, send me mail and request the
> following archive to be used with Trivia Challenger:
>
>     TRIVNO.ZIP -- Norwegian questions.
>
> Below is a poster advertising the archive.
>
> ========================================================================
> TRIV047.ZIP:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                            Trivia Challenger
>                              Version  0.47
>
> Trivia Challenger  is trivia a quiz game to be installed as a BBS door,
> or for standalone use.
>
> Trivia Challenger should work with BBS systems compatible with PCBoard,
> Mike's BBS (MBBS),  WILDCAT! systems,  GAP BBS,  SPITFIRE BBS and other
> systems  using standard  DOOR.SYS  file along with  RBBS-PC,  QuickBBS,
> Remote Access  and  other  systems  using  DORINFOx.DEF  files.
>
> Trivia Challenger's features include interrupt driven I/O, 16550AN UART
> support, and FOSSIL support.
>
> Trivia Challenger features:
>    * Unlimited number of quiz tables.  You may mix several tables  in a
>      single door, or have separate doors for separate topics.
>    * Add your own and your user's questions to the quiz tables! You can
>      also create and maintain your own quiz categories.
>    * More than  30 different  parameters for  customization,  making it
>      possible to configure the game in a highly personalized manner.
>    * Individual questions can be configured  for  players  to match the
>      correct  answer,  to  "fill in the blanks",  or  to select  from a
>      multiple choice menu.
>
> Trivia Challenger is shareware (cost US$ 20 or NOK 100).
>
> The  evaluation  archive is a fully functional game,  but have the fol-
> lowing limitations compared to the full, registered version:
>    * It will not generate bulletins.
>    * It only admits up to 10 players each day.
>    * The functions to merge new questions and categories into
>      the quiz tables are disabled.
>
> If  you  are  a registered user,  you may use your  TRIVREG  program to
> transform this evalutaion version to a full registered version.
> ========================================================================
>
> - gisle hannemyr  (Norsk Regnesentral)
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>
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