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This is dopewars 1.6.2, a game simulating the life of a drug dealer inNew York. The aim of the game is to make lots and lots of money...unfortunately, you start the game with a hefty debt, accumulating interest,and the cops take a rather dim view of drug dealing...

These are brief instructions; see the HTML documentation for full information.

dopewars 1.6.2 servers should handle clients as old as version 1.4.3 withhardly any visible problems (the reverse is also true). However, it isrecommended that both clients and servers are upgraded to 1.6.2!

Either...

1. Get the relevant RPM fromhttps://dopewars.sourceforge.io/

Or...

1. Get the tarballdopewars-1.6.2.tar.gz from the same URL
2. Extract it viatar -xvzf dopewars-1.6.2.tar.gz
3. Follow the instructions in theINSTALL file in the newly-createddopewars-1.6.2 directory

Once you're done, you can safely delete the RPM, tarball and dopewarsdirectory. The dopewars binary is all you need!

dopewars stores its high score files by default in/usr/share/dopewars.scoThis will be created by make install or by RPM installation. A different highscore file can be selected with the-f switch.

dopewars now compiles as a console or regular application under Win32 (Windows 7or later). Almost all functionality of the standard Unix binary is retained;for example, all of the same command line switches are supported. However, forconvenience, the configuration file is the more Windows-friendly"dopewars-config.txt".

The easiest way to install the Win32 version is to download the precompiledbinary. To build from source, see thewin32 directory.

dopewars has built-in client-server support for multi-player games. For afull list of options configurable on the command line, run dopewars withthe-h switch.

dopewars -a
This is "antique" dopewars; it tries to keep to the original dopewars, basedon the "Drug Wars" game by John E. Dell, as closely as possible.

dopewars
By default, dopewars supports multi-player games. On starting a game, theprogram will attempt to connect to a dopewars server so that players can sendmessages back and forth, and shoot each other if they really want to...

dopewars -s
Starts a dopewars server. This sits in the background and handles multi-playergames. You probably want to use the-l command line option too to direct itslog output to somewhere sensible.

dopewars -c
Create and run a computer dopewars player. This will attempt to connectto a dopewars server, and if this succeeds, it will then participate inmulti-player dopewars games.

Most of the dopewars defaults (for example, the location of the high score file,the port and server to connect to, the names of the drugs and guns, etc.) can beconfigured by adding suitable entries to the dopewars configuration file. Theglobal file/etc/dopewars is read first, and can then be overridden bythe local settings in~/.dopewars. All of the settings here can also beset on the command line of an interactive dopewars server when no playersare logged on. See the file "example-cfg" for an example configuration file,and for a brief explanation of each option, type "help" in an interactiveserver. A subset of the configuration options can also be tweaked via the"Options" menu item in the GTK+/Win32 client.

dopewars is supposed to be fairly self-explanatory. You should be able topick the basics up fairly quickly, but still be discovering subtleties forages ;) If you'rereally stuck, send me an email. I might even answer it!

Clue: buy drugs when they're cheap, sell them when they're expensive. The Bronxand Ghetto are "special" locations. Anything more would spoil the fun. ;)

Well, there are bound to be lots. Let me know if you find any byopening an issue, and I'll seeif I can fix 'em... of course, aworking patch would be evennicer! ;)

dopewars is released under the GNU General Public License; see the text fileLICENCE for further information. dopewars is copyright (C) Ben Webb 1998-2022.The dopewars icons are copyright (C) Ocelot Mantis 2001.

dopewars is written and maintained by Ben Webbbenwebb@users.sf.net
Enquiries about dopewars may be sent to this address (keep them sensibleplease ;) Bug fixes and reports, improvements and patches are also welcomed.