TIDBIT Bible Trivia CGA (c) 1994 Matthew Fecher Version 1.2 Release date: March 6, 1994 See license.txt for more information ---------========== Program Discription =======---------- Tidbit Trivia for CGA is an amusing computer board game for 2 or more players. The object of the game is to roll a dice to move around a board and answer questions. Your goal is to correctly answer a question from every corner of the playing board. * Make Your own Questions * It's FREE! * Free Support BBS You can make your own questions for use in your home, church, sunday school, or office. Think of this as YOUR custom Trivia Program! -----------============ How to Start Game ===============------------- To start the game type this at the dos prompt: TRIVIA Follow the instructions on the Screen and you can press F1 for help once you are on the main playing screen. °°°°±±±±±±²²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛ²²²²²²²±±±±±±±°°°°°°°±±±±±±±±²²²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²²²²²²±±±±±°°°°° ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ Þ ³Tidbit Trivia On-Line Help³ Þ The person who wins is the first ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Þ person to fill all of the four hearts Þ with letters from the word 'LOVE' While on main screen press: Þ You do that by correctly answering a Þ question on a corner square. Esc Exits Þ F1 This screen Þ On the question screen: Any other key Roll dice Þ Þ Type the letter(A, B, or C) ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÛ Depending on what you think Þ is the answer. If you are After the dice has been rolled: Þ correct, the music will play Þ and it will go back to the The number in the lower right hand Þ main screen and you can roll corner of the screen is the dice. Þ again. But, if you are wrong The number on it is how many spaces Þ it goes back to the main screen you have to move. The numbers on Þ and it is the other players turn the main playing board(1 and 2) are Þ to roll. the choices of where you can move Þúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúú press one to move where the one is Þ The player whose turn it is is and press two to move where the Þ to roll is listed on the bottom two is. Þ left hand side on the main screen. Þ °°°°±±±±±±²²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛ²²²²²²²±±±±±±±°°°°°°°±±±±±±±±²²²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²²²²²²±±±±±°°°°° --------========== How to make your own Questions ==========---------- * WARNING * Don't name your file: BIBLE.TQZ, because that is the question file that comes with this, and if you modify it the program may not work! Also, if you think that you received a version of this software that doesn't include the orginal 100 question Bible.TQZ file, you can obtain the orginal VGABIBLE.ZIP from the bbs described later on. Question Files are just Text files typed a certain way so that Tidbit Trivia can load them. To make a question file you first need to start your favorite text editor or word processor capable of making text files. Question files are typed in the format of: "Question","Correct Answer","Wrong Answer","Wrong Answer" Lets go through the steps you would take to make a question file called sample.tqz. 1. Start your Text Editor 2. Type: "What is one plus one?","2","4","1" "Who wrote this program?","Matt Fecher","Weird Al","Axl Rose" "How many pennys are in a dollar?","100","50","none" 3. Save it as: Sample.TQZ 4. Make sure that Sample.TQZ is in the same directory as Tidbit Trivia 5. Type 'Trivia' at the dos prompt 6. At the 'What question file do you want (enter) = Demo.tqz' prompt type SAMPLE.TQZ 7. Then at the 'How many questions are there' prompt type 3 because there were 3 questions. Thats all you have to do, you can go back later and edit your questions, I ask that you do not edit the DEMO.TQZ file and then distribute this program. If you do edit it, rename it something else. You can take a look at it, to see how the questions are written though. * NOTE * Questions must not exceed 72 characters in length. Answers must not exceed 36 characters in length. -------======== Tidbit Computers and Software ==========--------- This program was written by Matthew Fecher, President of Tidbit Software, using Quick Basic 4.5. You can download a current version of this or any of these other programs by Tidbit from Straight Street BBS. Or from The Tidbit BBS A Tidbit is a #1 ASCII code:  Most of the graphics for Bible Trivia were made with a freeware paint program called 'VGAPAINT' I used that inconjunction with a paint program I made because it displays coordinates, so it greatly helped me find out were to move the game pieces on the playing board. It is called 'Tidbit Painter for VGA' Other Tidbit Releases: ANSISKI.ZIP _____-----Tidbit Ski------______ FUN and addicting new game where you or you and a friend (using the TWO PLAYER SIMULTANEOUS play option) try to ski farther than anyone has ever gone before! Only the best will be able to make it. -------========= BBS Numbers =======---------- You can always get the current copies of Tidbit Software products on these boards: Straight Street BBS PCboard (317) 482-0011 1200-14.4 baud (317) 482-4458 1200-2400 baud Excalibur WildCat (317) 482-1006 1200-14.4 baud The Tidbit BBS TriBBS (317) 436-7641 1200-2400 buad The Filenames are: CGABIBLE.ZIP for this game ANSISKI.ZIP for Tidbit Ski VGABIBLE.ZIP for Tidbit Trivia for VGA You can send me private E-mail on the RIME network at the address: ->5171 I follow the Game Design Conf, and the Shareware conf. You can also reach me on the Wild-Net Programmers conf and the Games conf. And on the FIDO-Net Quick_Bas conf. -----============== Other Inportant Information =======--------- If you have made some question files and would like them to be distributed with this game feel free to call my BBS and upload them or send them to me on a disk. You will have your name mentioned as much as possible in the game! I would like to thank: Darin Johnson for help with the Docs and volunteering to have his BBS as the support board. ----------=======___/\/\atthew__Fecher___=========------------ ÒÄÄÄÄ¿ ÄÄÒÄÄ ÒÄÄÄÄ¿ Ò ÒÄÄÄÄÄ¿ º ³ º º ³ º º ÇÄÄÄÄÁ¿ º ÇÄÄÄÄÁ¿ º ÇÄÄ º ³ º º ³ º º ÐÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÄÄÐÄÄ ÐÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÛßßÜßßÛ ßÛßßÜ Û ßÜ ßÜ Û ßÛßßÜ Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û ßÛßÛß Û Û Û Û ßÛßßßÛ Û Û ßÜ Û Û Û Û Û Û ÜÛÜ ß ß ßÜ ßßßßß ßÜ Üß Üß ÖÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ· for CGA º º º º º ÍÍÎÍÍ º º Matt Fecher º ÍÍÎÍÍ º ÍÍÎÍÍ º 7350 West 350 North º º º º º Thorntown, IN 46071 º º º º º º º º º º ÜÜÜÜÜ º Tidbit Software BBS (317)436-7641 º ²²²²² Üܲ²²²²ÜÜ ²²²²² º º ßßßßßßß ßßßßßßßßß ßßßßßßß º Support BBS: Straight Street ÓÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĽ Node1 (317) 482-0011 Node2 482-4458