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/*                        Wall Street Blues History                      */
/*                          AREXX Programming by                         */
/*                          Charles A. Van Tuyl                          */
/*                               aka Caesar                              */
/*  $VER:Wall Street Blues History, v2.0 (04-12-94) by Charles Van Tuyl  */
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                      HISTORY OF WALL STREET BLUES

V1.0 (27 September 1994) Primary game constructed. This version was not 
     released.

v1.1 (1 October 1994) Bugs removed from arithmatic on company stock pricing. 

     All additions to stocks made to even numbers to prevent breakdown into 
     several decimal places for stock prices.

     Stocks that split had odd numbers when the stock price was ending with
     2 or 0. Stocks now split to $108.

     CNet mail reminder added to remind players to invest thier dividends.

     Time award added to promote game playing/testing.

V1.2 (4 October 1994) Error routines added to ease installation.
     
     MonthlyMaint file name changed to "Reset". 

     Main program file name changed to "WallStreet".

     Added Sort file execution to the end of Maint.

V1.3 (27 October 1994) Fixed routine that checks for a stock price being $0
     and not allowing anyone to purchase that stock. I saw this during
     playtesting and put in the fix however some variables weren't set
     right.
     
     Added additional spaces for those investors who go above 1,000,000.
     They must have learned of the bug that would allow buying a stock
     priced at $0!

V2.0 (5 November 1994) Added Dow Jones index and percent change from
     previous day earnings.
     
     Added Date file that checks to see if maintenance has already run yet
     for that day. This file is now put in BBS events INSTEAD of Maint.
     Everthing is linked together under it.

     (12 November 1994) Added company history files. Company Biographies
     changed to Company Prospectus and shows the percentage gained per year
     as well as previous years prices. Also shows the average percent
     gained from each stock. Some percentages have been taken out of the
     average to give a more accurate percentage. -100% when the date equals
     the previous day.(Eliminates -100% when a certain day does not have a
     price above $0 yet.) Stock split percentages. (Would give false
     percents when a stock was $196 and then it showed $108 the next day.)
     Any percentage given when the previous days stock price equals $0.
     I've decided not to have the Prospectus reset every month so users
     would have something to go by the following month.

     Added additional main menu items so the games initial screens could be
     accessed from the main menu. I always wanted to see them again!

     Started requesting donations for this pfile. Send in yours today! See
     the DOCS file to find out where to send them.

     (4 December 1994) Added the A command to buying stocks. Makes it
     easier to buy the maximum amounts! Suggested by Mike Miller, thanks!

     Joined the sell and buy screens into one. Not as much switching back
     and forth! Suggested by Mike Miller, thanks!
   
     Changed the Date file to run all events. Couldn't get the reset file
     to run on the first of every month like CNet says it should. The date
     file will now recognize the first of every month and run reset. The
     date file was helpful in ensuring everything in maintenance ran in the
     right order.

     Corrected bugs found in the prospectus file. All values equaling -100%
     are no longer included in the average gain percentage. It would be an
     excessive amount of work, for what it's worth, to read these values 
     in correctly.

     Hey, learned more about Arexx programming! Never can stop learning!
