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<p align="left"><font face="Tahoma"><b><font size="5">DopeWars for PalmOS</font></b><font size="3"><br>
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This is DopeWars, a PalmOS clone of an old DOS game of the same name.&nbsp; The
original DOS version is included with the DopeWars source code (however, it's
not written by me).</font></font></p>

<p align="left"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">DopeWars is not intended for
audiences under the age of 18 due to its drug-related content.&nbsp; If the
young ones want to play, I recommend <a href="http://www.astraware.com/palm/zap2000/">Zap!2000</a>.<br>
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This program is freeware, and the source code is available free of charge as
well at the DopeWars web site.&nbsp; I believe the Palm community could use more
quality free programs and less poor-quality shareware programs.&nbsp; Also, I
learned PalmOS programming from studying other programmers' code, and I hope new
programmers might learn something from my code as well.<br>
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The help dialogs in the game explain how to play the game.&nbsp; Either click on
the info icon in the upper right hand corner of a dialog box or access the help
topics from the Help menu in the buying/selling screen.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Tahoma">With the advent of the automatic save/resume
feature in version 2.0, you may want to start a new game more often in the
middle of a game.&nbsp; To start a new game (ending your current game), select
New Game from the Game menu on the buying/selling screen.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">DopeWars for PalmOS is copyright 1999-2000 Matthew Lee. If you use my code in your
program, please make mention of it in the program somewhere and send me an email if you could.<br>
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Thanks goes out to all of the kind people who sent me feature suggestions, pointed out bugs, and shared their appreciation of
the game with me.&nbsp; This game is great because of your contributions!<br>
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Have fun!<br>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Matt Lee (<a href="mailto:mattlee@mit.edu">mattlee@mit.edu</a>)<br>
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DopeWars Web page: <a href="http://dopewars.cjb.net"> http://dopewars.cjb.net</a>
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<p align="left"><font face="Tahoma">Many thanks to Calvin Parker, maintainer of
the <a href="http://www.palmgear.com/faq/index.cfm">Palm FAQ</a>, for hosting
the DopeWars web page.<font size="3"><br>
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</font><font size="5">What's New</font></font></p>
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<td width="16%"><b><font size="3" face="Tahoma">Version</font></b></td>
<td width="84%"><b><font size="3" face="Tahoma">Notes</font></b></td>
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<td width="16%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font face="Tahoma">2.3</font></td>
<td width="84%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font face="Tahoma">fixed crash bug in
PalmOS 3.5.2 in the loan shark and bank screens<br>
added &quot;Entire Debt&quot; payment button and &quot;Max Amount&quot;
borrowing button to loan shark dialogs (<b>by popular demand</b>)<br>
added periodic &quot;reminders&quot; from the loan shark thugs when your
debt goes past $100,000<br>
changed Ludes to Ecstasy, just to be a little more modern (no change in
pricing though)<br>
temporarily removed score verification feature (it will be back later)</font></td>
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<td width="16%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="Tahoma">2.2</font></td>
<td width="84%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="Tahoma">added "Max" button to buy/sell dialogs that buys or sells the maximum
allowable amount<br>
added cheat menu to make it easier to cheat (<b>by popular demand</b>)<br>
changed cash/debt/savings displays to display "$x.x M" when amount is over $100 million<br>
made buy screen say "a lot" if the allowable purchase quantity is over 1000<br>
added "Current location:" to Travel screen</font></td>
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<td width="16%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font face="Tahoma">2.15</font></td>
<td width="84%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font face="Tahoma">changed loan shark to be more giving
(30x cash instead of 4x)</font></td>
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<td width="16%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">2.10</font></td>
<td width="84%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="Tahoma">changed loan shark to be more giving (4x cash instead of 2x)<br>
added high score verification for upcoming website<br>
removed $ from "None" entries in price table<br>
made Cancel button hidden on initial Travel screen</font></td>
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<td width="16%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">2.01</font></td>
<td width="84%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font size="3" face="Tahoma"> put a limit on loan shark borrowing<br>
fixed a nasty hard-to-reach UI bug</font></td>
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<td width="16%"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">2.0</font></td>
<td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Tahoma"> added auto save/resume game feature<br>
added cheat codes! (see Game Info for details)</font></td>
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<td width="16%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">1.52</font></td>
<td width="84%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><font size="3" face="Tahoma"> fixed bugs in numeric input fields<br>
removed the "1" in numeric fields by default</font></td>
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<td width="16%"><font size="3" face="Tahoma">1.51</font></td>
<td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Tahoma"> changed it so that focus jumps to input text fields in buy/sell
dialogs.</font></td>
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