Subj : Farwest Trivia
To   : Cats Eye
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 28 2002 06:38 am

 Re: Farwest Trivia
 By: Cats Eye to All on Thu Feb 28 2002 10:25 am

> I'm thinking of undertaking a Baja adventure.. I'd like to write a
> "Farwest Trivia" clone for Synchronet using Sync's built-in
> teleconference.. I just don't know how to go about it.. Can you load
> services to run for BBS users like this?..

Right now, there is no way to insert games or other modules into the multinode
chat.

> Is there any way to make
> a service intercept a user's typing in the teleconference before sending
> the input to the chat module so that the service can check for a right
> answer?..

Not really. You'd probably be better off just writing your own multinode chat
module and including the game in it.

> Also, is there any way to make sure that all the nodes synch
> up this way?..

Not sure what you mean here.

> Has anyone else here ever even played Farwest trivia on any MBBS systems
> and know what I'm talking about?.. :)

I don't remember, but I've seen how MBBS games/modules could be integrated with
their chat system. Right now, Synchronet doesn't have anything like that.

                                                   digital man

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