
             The Mad Hatter's TW Nebulae for TW2002 V3.09
                              TW Nebulae V3.09
                   Copywrite 1999 & 2000 by Wayne Borean
                              Jan. 18, 2000

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Disclaimer:
This program is warranted to take up hard drive space. No other warranty is 
accepted or implied.

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Now that the legalities are out of the way, here are the details. Some of you
may remember me - I'm the crazy who managed to take TW2002 V1.03 to 20,000
sectors by way of a program called The Universe Expander. 

Things have been busy, so this program which took 4 hours of my time, took
6 months to do. In the meantime I've gone through 4 hard drives, two computers,
2 monitors, a modem, and other hardware.

I decided to write this program before I finished Lavalite 3.09, however life
kept getting in the way.

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What does this program do?

It enables you to rename the Nebulae in the game in one quick pass. Why would
you want to do it? Themes.

Some of the best games I played in were themed games, and changing the nebulae
names to reflect the theme adds flavour to the game. Doing it by hand with a
20K sector universe is a bit of a drag. This program will do it in 2-3 minutes
even on a slow (P133) computer.

I've provided on file (TWNEB.NEB) with country names as an example. You can
edit the file with anything that will output DOS ASCII, such as DOS Edit or
the Windows Notepad. So go be creative, who knows I may drop in and try your
game. 

WARNING: MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE IS ONLINE WHEN YOU RUN IT!!! And I don't mean 
just in TW2002. As a safety factor I left the Microsoft standard com library
attached, so that if there were any players in TW it would kick them out,
however it closes ALL com ports. Rodents will not be affected, but ALL modem
connections will.

That's it. See REG.TXT for registration details, I'm sure that you'll agree
that the price is right.

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Version info:

TW Nebulae V3.09: Works with TW2002 V3.00 to 3.09. No known bugs. Due to TW2002 
being an evolving product, in future all releases of TWNEB will have the TW
Version Number as their own.

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Programming Details:

TW Nebulae V3.09 was written on an HP Vectra P133 PC clone with 40 megs of ram,
4 gigs HD space, a 8 spin CD, and a 57K modem, network card, and a cable modem. 

Prototyping was done in Power Basic 3.10, the final release version was done
using VBDos Professional.

Time taken to program and test was 4.0 hours.

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Bug Reports:

If you do detect a bug, please email a report to:

the_mad_hatter@bigfoot.com

complete with the following details:

Operating System
Trade Wars Version
BBS Software
Observed Behavior

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