Category : BBS Programs+Doors
Archive   : STOCK103.ZIP
Filename : LANGUAGE.BOI

This document is effective 7/5/92
LANGUAGE


BBS Onliner Interface version 1.30
Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Andrew J. Mead
All Rights Reserved.

Contact:
Andrew J. Mead
POB 1155
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-1155.
or
1@9952 WWIVnet 1002:735/417 HomeBoyNet 1@9395 VirtualNet
1:3641/417 FidoNet 75:7919/417 DoorNet 30:507/4 USPolNet

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I am working towards removing all text language from the game
executables. The first part of this attempt has been the removal
of the instruction or information texts (most notabley the *.INS
files). Hopefully future versions will also come with a compiled
language file (compiler will be provided) that includes every
piece of text used by the game. This will allow for foreign
language, multilingual, or even personalized (ie TrekSpeak) versions
of the games to be available. If you translate any of the texts,
please let me know. What follows is a description of the text
files used by the doors.

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The first seven (7) characters of every line are control characters.
The rest of the line is text to be displayed.

column values meaning
1
+ send carriage return/line feed after sending text
- do not send CR/LF after sending text
WF Window/Full Screen (other values not yet defined)
C Clear Screen
B Page Break/Wait for user input to continue
E End of Text/Wait for user input to return to door
; Comment/line is ignored
(other) Undefined/line is ignored
2 blank
3 0..7 Background color (see chart below)
4 0..F Text color for color modes (see chart below)
5 0 Reserved
6 0..F Text color for monochrome modes (see chart below)
7 blank

dark colors light colors
0 Black 8 DarkGray
1 Blue 9 LightBlue (underlined in monochrome modes)
2 Green A LightGreen
3 Cyan B LightCyan
4 Red C LightRed
5 Magenta D LightMagenta
6 Brown E Yellow
7 LightGray F White


BBS Onliner Interface
Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Andrew J. Mead - All Rights Reserved.
The Mad Programmer - Brown & Mead Consulting
POB 1155 Chapel Hill, NC 27514-1155

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