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 Copyright (c) 2005-2024 Elwynor Technologies

WHAT IS BRIDGE?

Bridge is a multi-player text-based bridge game. The game plays bridge for up to four players at a table, with the ability for people to sit down as a trainee to learn the game from another player as he/she plays.

GAMEPLAY

The game plays like bridge would if you were playing in person. The seats at the table are labeled North, South, East, and West. Trainees may sit alongside a player.

COMMANDS

The game starts and resets upon command when all seats are empty.

The following are game commands:

Anytime within the game: /table, /bids, /myhand, /faceup (dummy), $ (for score sheet), + (priv msg)

Dealer commands: /shuffle, /deal

Bidder commands: /1heart, /pass, /2notrump, /double, /redouble

Play commands: / - e.g. /h4 = heart 4, /d10 = diamonds 10, /sa = spade ace

INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION

Simply unzip the game archive to your BBS server directory, add the module to your menu, configure the MSG file to your liking, and start the BBS! It's that easy!

GAME HISTORY

Bridge was written and developed by Gene Swope of Amusers, Inc, in 1988-89. Elwynor Technologies acquired the module in 2004, and ported it to MBBS/WG DOS in October 2004 and to Worldgroup 3.2 in February 2006. It was then ported to Major BBS V10 in July 2024.

LICENSE

This project is licensed under the AGPL v3. Additional terms apply to contributions and derivative projects. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.

CONTRIBUTING

We welcome contributions from the community. By contributing, you agree to the terms outlined in the CONTRIBUTING file.

CREATING A FORK

If you create an entirely new project based on this work, it must be licensed under the AGPL v3, assign all right, title, and interest, including all copyrights, in and to your fork to Rick Hadsall and Elwynor Technologies, and you must include the additional terms from the LICENSE file in your project's LICENSE file.

COMPILATION

This is a Worldgroup 3.2 / Major BBS v10 module. It's compiled using Borland C/C++ 5.0 for Worldgroup 3.2. If you have a working Worldgroup 3.2 development kit, a simple "make -f ELWBR" should do it! For Major BBS v10, import this project folder in the isv/ subtree of Visual Studio 2022, right click the project name and choose build! When ready to build for "release", ensure you are building for release.

PACKING UP

The DIST folder includes all of the items that should be packaged up in a ELWBR.ZIP. When unzipped in a Worldgroup 3.2 or Major BBS V10 installation folder, it "installs" the module.