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 Eraser Bot Shell (EBS)                                     v3.3
 by Incubus
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Title                   : Eraser Bot Shell
Author                  : Incubus
E-mail                  : IncubusOne@hotmail.com
Homepage                : http://fragland.net/ebs

Description             : EraserBot front-end with support for
                          most EraserMods

Additional Credits to   : id Software for their kick-ass games
                          Ryan Feltrin for the EraserBot
                          EFE, my first bot front-end which
                            made me decide to make my own one
                          Fragland, my wonderful host
                          [nBn]Reptile for the much appreciated
                          help. Without his help this version
                          wouldn't have worked to way it does
                          now. Thanks.
                          C0de Monkey (he must be really happy
                          now)
                          Anyone else who has contributed in
                            any way to the development of EBS.

Beta Testers:           : [nBn]Reptile

Build Time              : many hours that should have been
                          spent otherwise
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NEW IN THIS VERSION

   It's all much better now :)


DESCRIPTION

   The Eraser Bot Shell is a program that allows to manage
   your Eraser Bots and makes launching Quake2 with Eraser
   Bots easy

   The Eraser Bot is a simulated multiplayer opponent, for
   use with id Software's Quake2. It has been developed with
   speed and accuracy in mind, so that you can play with more
   bots, with higher intelligence.


INSTALLATION

   Just unzip the files contained in the archive, to a
   folder of your choice.
   If your unzipping a patch/update, you have to overwrite
   all previous files if asked so.


RUNNING EBS

   Double-click EBS.EXE


HISTORY

v3.0 :first public release (Aug 1, 1998)
      site: http://www.altern.org/incubus

v3.1 :release date: Sep 18, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      - adding maps from favourite to map cycle
        caused wrong map-names in cycle. This
        has been solved.
      - adding maps to fav's that were already there,
        caused a crash. This is fixed.
      - skin-list in player-setup wasn't working. Fixed
      - Myscha was misspelled in the greetings-section
      - made some cosmetic changes and fine-tunings
      - New SPLASH screen, this one is far more professional-
        looking than the previous. I like it, alot.
      - splash screen is now shown during 5 seconds. If
        you think this is too long, you can disable it
        so the splash screen is only shown during actual
        loading. This option can be found under 'General
        Settings'.
      - added Pro-Rocket (=PR) support. PR should be located
        in 'pro-eraser' folder ! I'll change it later so
        other folder names are allowed also.
      - rule 1: 'fix a bug and create 2 new ones'. So, I fixed
        a bug in the map-tree and I found a new one, which I
        have fixed too. Applying 'rule 1' there are now 3 NEW
        bugs in the program (1 remaining bug from the first + 2
        new ones which were created when fixing the second bug)
      - I just thought of something fundamental, which I have
        overlooked: not everyone has the EraserBot located in
        a folder called 'eraser', like I do. So anyone who has
        Eraser installed in another folder, won't be able to 
        run EBS at all !!! Doh !
        This is FIXED now.
      - Fixed a bug where the Q2 location wasn't saved correctly
        when changed in 'general settings' (actually it wasn't
        saved at all). This is also fixed.
      - Added ToDo section in readme.
      - Map icons now have a Win'98 look (fancy!)
      - Now, this is cool: the save-routine is now much more solid
        and independant (but a little slower). Thanks to that, it's
        now possible to sort you list of bots in the 'organizer' !!
        The sorting is quite fast: sorting 150 bots takes only a
        second. Thanks bubblesort!
      - The list goes on: EBS now saves the window size. If you have
        big icons, the standard size, might not be large enough. Now,
        all you have to do is resize the window once, and next time
        EBS is started, it will have the new size
      - Bug in summary fixed: CTF wasn't reported correctly
      - Most bugs are gone now (at least I hope they are), so I'll
        stop updating this verion. New bug-fixes will be released in
        a new update.

v3.1b:release date: Sep 20, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      - Removed a bug in the EasyMap routine, which caused wrong summaries

v3.1c:release date: Sep 23, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      - Allow up to 50 teams instead of 20
      - Minimizing the main window caused a crash, so I disabled minimizing

v3.1d:release date: Sep 24, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      - KickStart was broken, fixed now
      - EBS won't ask for Ultra if not installed

v3.1e:release date: Sep 29, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      - Map Cycling was broken, fixed now (Ultra is still buggy)
      - Ability to modify Vwep supported models
      - Ability to define aliases
      - Basic RocketArena2 support
      - automatic upgrade of profiles

v3.2 :release date: Oct 5, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      - RailArena support
      - EBS on-line
      - a lot more


v3.2a:release date: Nov 11, 1998
      Corrections and new features:
      -Skin Doctor
       -solves all your Bot problems
       -list unused skin
       -cure problem-bots
      -Log Analyser
       -get individual statistics
       -get global survey
      -Improved EasyMap-engine
      -Demo starter, incorporated in EasyMap
      -Use external config files
      -Config Cycling
      -Manually edit the command line


v3.2a:release date: Feb 10, 1999
      Corrections and new features:
      - See at top of file


TROUBLESHOOTING

   Browse to http://fragland.net/ebs and go to the 'Manual'.
   Here you get most common features of EBS explained in detail.
   If you don't find a solution there, send me an e-mail, in
   which you explain your problem.

SUPPORTED MODS

   - Eraser
   - Ultra Eraser
   - RocketBot (RA2)
   - Rail Arena
   - Keys2

DISCLAIMER

   This is a BETA release, I therefore will not take responsibility
   for your system barfing after playing the game. I can however
   guarantee that I have not purposely added any malicious content
   to this application. If you believe this to be incorrect, then
   I'd be happy to discuss the matter with you.

   You may freely distribute this archive, as long as it remains
   PERFECTLY intact, as distributed on our home page:
   "http://fragland.net/ebs". Thanks.


enjoy,
-Incubus
