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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. 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. 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. I believe the Palm community could use more
quality free programs and less poor-quality shareware programs. 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. 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. 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. This game is great because of your contributions!<br>
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Have fun!<br>
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- 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 "Entire Debt" payment button and "Max Amount"
borrowing button to loan shark dialogs (<b>by popular demand</b>)<br>
added periodic "reminders" 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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