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Trivia Challenger available (door game for BBS'es)

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From: Gisle Hannemyr
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 17:44
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Subject: Trivia Challenger (Trivia game for PC-based BBS'es)
                    Trivia Challenger is Available!

Trivia Challenger is a quiz game to be installed as a BBS door,  or for
standalone use.  It features more than  1500 questions in ten different
categories  (Movies,  Rock music,  Science,  The  Arts, etc.).  It  has
consistently  proved  the  MOST  POPULAR  door on the BBSes where it is
installed, with more daily users than such old favorites as Global War,
King of the Board and Operation Overkill II.

If you want to evaluate this game on your PC / BBS, please send me
mail asking for "Trivia Challenger", and I'll mail you the uuencoded
archive.

Included in  the archive  is a special installation/maintenance program
that  automates most of the SysOps task in installing,  setting up  and
maintaining the door.

Trivia Challenger should work with BBS systems compatible with PCBoard,
Mike's BBS (MBBS),  WILDCAT! systems,  GAP BBS,  SPITFIRE BBS and other
systems  using standard  DOOR.SYS  file along with  RBBS-PC,  QuickBBS,
Remote Access  and  other  systems  using  DORINFOx.DEF  files.  Trivia
Challenger will also utilize a file called GENERIC.SYS.  This file will
allow Trivia Challenger to work on ANY BBS system.

Trivia Challenger's features include interrupt driven I/O, 16550AN UART
support, and FOSSIL support.

Trivia Challenger features:
   * Unlimited number of quiz tables.  You may mix several tables  in a
     single door, or have separate doors for separate topics.
   * Add your own and your user's questions to the quiz tables! You can
     also create and maintain your own quiz categories.
   * More than  30 different  parameters for  customization,  making it
     possible to configure the game in a highly personalized manner.
   * Individual questions can be configured  for  players  to match the
     correct  answer,  to  "fill in the blanks",  or  to select  from a
     multiple choice menu.

Trivia Challenger is shareware (cost US$ 20 or NOK 100).

The  evaluation  archive is a fully functional game,  but have the fol-
lowing limitations compared to the full, registered version:
   * It will not generate bulletins.
   * It only admits up to 10 players each day.
   * The functions to merge new questions and categories into
     the quiz tables are disabled.
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Subject: Trivia Challenger available (door game for BBS'es)
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