03-Mar-92

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              English documentation for  C h a l l e n g e r

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1. Short description of the program

Challenger is a quiz program with 500 internal stored questions. You can
play it alone or against up to 5 other persons. At each question four ans-
wers are displayed; only one of them is the right one. Input is possible
with the mouse or alternatively with the keyboard. The program also keeps
a highscore-list, where the ten best players are stored.


2. Starting the program

Just double-click on the icon. The program runs under Amigas with 512 KByte
of memory or more.


3. Detailed description of the program functions

After the start of the program a window appears a few seconds later; from
here you can start four actions. Per menu you can only choose "About". A
window with some Copyright informations appears.

The other three actions are started by mouse-clicks. If you click the right
box ("QUIT"), the program is terminated.
If you click the box in the middle ("HIGHSCORES"), then the ten best pla-
yers with their respective per cent numbers appear.

After clicking on the left box ("TEST") the Challenger-Test begins. At
first it is to determine how many persons are participated in the game
(1 to 6). Clicking on "Forget it" will break the test.
If you have clicked on a number between two and six, you are asked if there
should be the same questions for all players or if every player should be-
come different questions. For example: if there are three players selected,
"same" means that there is the same question for all three players in a
round; "different" means, that there are always three different questions.
At next you are asked, how many questions per player should be asked (10 to
30).
At last the names of the players are asked. If no names are stored, the
first player must type in his name directly in the appearing window. In the
other case you have to click on "NEW", if you want to type in a name which
is not yet stored.
All names which are typed in are stored in a file and are visible on the
left side of the window. So if your name is already stored, you just have
to click on "CHOOSE" (only if this word is not written in red) and then
click on the desired name.
All stored names can be changed. Click on "CHANGE" and then on the desired
name. Now type in the changed name.
If all players have entered their names, the quiz begins.
For each player appears the name and the current number of points. If there
are same questions for all players, then the question which is relevant for
all is written on the top of the window. In the other case the questions
are written directly under the names of the players. The sequence of the
players is drawed before each round. The questions are internal grouped in-
to five difficulty levels. Each player has per five questions to answer one
question of every difficulty level. The five questions are sequenced by
random. Thus the quiz is for all players even at different questions of the
same difficulty.
For all questions there are four answers, numbered by 1 to 4. You can enter
the desired number on the keyboard or click on the equivalent box. After
that the right answer is lighted up in red color (in the case of several
players with same questions not before the end of the round) and either
null or one point is added to the players score. If all players are ready,
the next round begins.
After the selected number of rounds the final result is displayed. If one
or more players reached new highscores, the new highscore-list appears. The
new highscores are written with red color.


4. Files

Challenger contains of the following files:
 - Challenger_english(.info)
 - Challenger_deutsch(.info)
 - challenger_e.main
 - challenger_d.main
 - Challenger_doc(.info)
 - Challenger_dok(.info)
 - the fonts ruby/12 and 3D-Char/18

Besides the CLI commands 'IconX' and 'Assign' are needed.

The program creates for its internal management three files: names (the
names of the players), highscores and statistics.


5. I (the author)

Udo Haisch
Frohe Arbeit 13
W-6800 Mannheim 31
Germany