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101 lines
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BBS Crash On-Line Game
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By: John Richardson & Alex Slinin
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(* Player Documentation *)
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As you begin, you will find yourself at an MS-DOS style DOS prompt. The object
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of the game is to make yourself as big a nuisance to as many people as you can
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in as short a time possible. You will infiltrate telecommunications services,
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hack the accounts of other callers on this BBS, and contact Hackers Anonymous
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to get help increasing your skills.
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Functions Available in this Game:
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DIR, ?, CATALOG - These three commands display the menu of options.
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UE - While you are busy trying to trash the many online
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services you will find here, they will be trying to
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protect themselves by purging off as much of your
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system as possible. You can use this UnErase command
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to restore your hard drive to its original state. As
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word begins to spread about your prowess, the cost
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of this service will start to rise.
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STATUS - Displays a list of your personal statistics. Tells
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how many megabytes you have, how much money on hand
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and in the bank. It will also keep a record of how
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many turns of each type you have left.
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CALL - This is used to call up commercial telecommunication
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services and try to crash them. If successful, you
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will be rewarded with money from hidden accounts as
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you slowly advance in level.
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HACK - Make a pest of yourself by attacking the accounts of
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other callers on this BBS. Increase your level, take
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cash from their credit accounts and steal both their
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software and hardware. You will even switch places
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with higher level systems if you defeat them.
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HA - The infamous Hackers Anonymous. Call them to garner
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information about the other caller accounts. They
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can also provide you with powerful software cracking
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programs and hardware backups... For a price!
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HIGH - Displays the top 10 score bulletin.
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QUIT - Use this if you want to... quit the game.
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+ - Put all of your cash on-hand into the bank.
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- - Take all of your cash from the bank.
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FORMAT - Delete your current character and start a new one.
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Do it when you are out of alternatives.
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The name of the game is disk space. The more megabytes you have, the harder
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it is for somebody to crash you and the easier it is to waste other boards.
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New players should start with BBS #1 and advance from there.
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While using CALL or HACK, you will be able to do the following.
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[T]rash Files - This purges areas of the enemy hard drive and will
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eventually crash their system completely. Note that
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some people will hit back rather nastily if they
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detect your tampering. Periodic hardware failure can
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interfere with hacking operations.
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[D]rop Carrier - Drop the carrier immediately in an emergency.
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[U]pload Trojan - These nasty little suckers can sometimes do quite a
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lot of damage to the host system. The advantage in
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using them is that they don't leave any traces for
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host to detect. Trojan Horse programs are rare, so
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use them with discretion.
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[B]ackup - When you take on a heavy hitter who is just about to
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wipe you out, this emergency backup can really save
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your bacon. It will recover some of the missing megs
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before you're completely toasted.
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Buying high powered terminal software and a hardware backup will help you to
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prevail over powerful enemies. You can buy these from the Hackers Anonymous
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BBS by using "HA" from the DOS Prompt.
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