$ UNI NOTES 1. THE GAME OF UNIVERSE WAS MADE TO RUN ON A VAX-11/780 WITH 2 MEGABYTES OF MEMORY ( RUNNING VESION 1.6 OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM ). TO RUN THIS GAME YOU ARE ADVISED TO SET UP A SEPERATE DIRECTORY FOR THE FILES. ( ABOUT 500 BLOCKS SHOULD SURFICE THE GAME FOR AWHILE ). 2. WE HAVE LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE THAT THIS GAME BECAUSE IT IS SO LARGE, TENDS TO PAGE FAULT A LOT. IF YOU ARE RUNNING THIS ON A SYSTEM WITH LESS THEN 1 MEGABYTE YOU MIGHT FIND IT RATHER SLOW IN RESPONDING. 3. THIS CURENT VERSION OF UNI IS MADE TO RUN ON VT100 OR VT52 TERMINALS. THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE CONTROL CHARACTERS NEEDED FOR CURSER CONTROL. THE PROGRAM CC.FOR IS THE SUBROUTINE ( WRITTEN IN VAX-11 FORTRAN ) FOR CURSER CONTROL. YOU MUST CHANGE THE CONTROL CHARACTERS IN THIS ROUTINE FOR OTHER THEN THE ABOVE MENTIONED TERMINALS. 3A. THE COMMANDS TO COMPILE AND LINK UNI ARE AS FOLLOWS : $ FOR/WO:4 UNI ( NOTE : FOR VERSION 1.6 ) $ FOR UNI ( NOTE : FOR VERSION 2.0 ) $ FOR CC,COMT,ENTER,LNCR $ FOR MDFY,MESS,PAS0,PINPNT $ FOR QUIT,STAMP,UNI0 $ LINK UNI,CC,COMT,ENTER,LC,LNCR,MDFY,MESS,PINPNT,- PLNT,QUIT,STAMP $ LINK PAS0 $ LINK UNI0 $ RUN PAS0 $ RUN UNI0 3B. NOTE: THE ABOVE COMMANDS ARE FOR STARTING FROM SCRATCH TO GET UNI RUNNING. YOU WILL NOTICE ON THE TAPE THAT YOU WILL FIND THE *.OBJ'S AND UNI.EXE. THE REASON WE HAVE PUT THESE ON IS THAT NOT EVERYONE HAS THE ABILITY OF A FORTRAN COMPILER. $ RUN UNI ( END OF COMMANDS ) 4. THERE ARE A GROUP OF FILES THAT GO ALONG WITH UNI ( THEY ARE DESCRIBED IN HOWTOUNI.TXT ). THESE FILES ARE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO THE SMOOTH RUNNING OF UNI. 5. A SPECIAL NOTE TO THE OPERATOR AND OVERSEER OF THIS GAME AT WHATEVER LOCATION IT WILL END UP. **** SPECIAL COMMAND **** WHEN UNI PROMPTS FOR THE COMMAND TO START THE GAME, PLAY,SEE,QUIT, ETC.. THE OPERATOR CAN GAIN ACCESS TO MODIFY THE PASSWORD AND STATISTICS FILE BY THE COMMAND " (!) ". THIS WILL CALL UP THE MODIFY COMMAND PROCEDURE FOR UNI WHICH IS SELF EXPLANATORY.