💾 Archived View for gemini.spam.works › mirrors › textfiles › computers › DOCUMENTATION › crash.bbs captured on 2022-06-12 at 06:31:58.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
BBS Crash On-Line Game
By: John Richardson & Alex Slinin
(* Player Documentation *)
______________________________________________________________________________
As you begin, you will find yourself at an MS-DOS style DOS prompt. The object
of the game is to make yourself as big a nuisance to as many people as you can
in as short a time possible. You will infiltrate telecommunications services,
hack the accounts of other callers on this BBS, and contact Hackers Anonymous
to get help increasing your skills.
Functions Available in this Game:
DIR, ?, CATALOG - These three commands display the menu of options.
UE - While you are busy trying to trash the many online
services you will find here, they will be trying to
protect themselves by purging off as much of your
system as possible. You can use this UnErase command
to restore your hard drive to its original state. As
word begins to spread about your prowess, the cost
of this service will start to rise.
STATUS - Displays a list of your personal statistics. Tells
how many megabytes you have, how much money on hand
and in the bank. It will also keep a record of how
many turns of each type you have left.
CALL - This is used to call up commercial telecommunication
services and try to crash them. If successful, you
will be rewarded with money from hidden accounts as
you slowly advance in level.
HACK - Make a pest of yourself by attacking the accounts of
other callers on this BBS. Increase your level, take
cash from their credit accounts and steal both their
software and hardware. You will even switch places
with higher level systems if you defeat them.
HA - The infamous Hackers Anonymous. Call them to garner
information about the other caller accounts. They
can also provide you with powerful software cracking
programs and hardware backups... For a price!
HIGH - Displays the top 10 score bulletin.
QUIT - Use this if you want to... quit the game.
+ - Put all of your cash on-hand into the bank.
- - Take all of your cash from the bank.
FORMAT - Delete your current character and start a new one.
Do it when you are out of alternatives.
The name of the game is disk space. The more megabytes you have, the harder
it is for somebody to crash you and the easier it is to waste other boards.
New players should start with BBS #1 and advance from there.
While using CALL or HACK, you will be able to do the following.
[T]rash Files - This purges areas of the enemy hard drive and will
eventually crash their system completely. Note that
some people will hit back rather nastily if they
detect your tampering. Periodic hardware failure can
interfere with hacking operations.
[D]rop Carrier - Drop the carrier immediately in an emergency.
[U]pload Trojan - These nasty little suckers can sometimes do quite a
lot of damage to the host system. The advantage in
using them is that they don't leave any traces for
host to detect. Trojan Horse programs are rare, so
use them with discretion.
[B]ackup - When you take on a heavy hitter who is just about to
wipe you out, this emergency backup can really save
your bacon. It will recover some of the missing megs
before you're completely toasted.
Buying high powered terminal software and a hardware backup will help you to
prevail over powerful enemies. You can buy these from the Hackers Anonymous
BBS by using "HA" from the DOS Prompt.