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                    THE BOT JOHNNY (c) 1998 Semprini
                           Version 2.00 alpha
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                        http://jb.quake2.co.uk/
                          semprini@buttle.com
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                              README FILE
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IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, READ THE DISCLAIMER.

PLEASE email semprini@buttle.com about how you get on with the program,
good or bad (if the latter, constructive comments please...!)  A large
number of features have been added on request.


---THIS ALPHA RELEASE

Please read file ALPHA.TXT for issues concerning this release.

Also file UPDATE.TXT may be of interest as it contains information for
anyone upgrading from previous versions.

NOTE - the settings for BJ1.x are NOT compatible with this new version,
so if you want to keep them, use the BJ_CONVERT program to convert them
to the new format.


---RELEASE NOTES

For help please consult the HELP FILE that comes with BotJohnny.  There
is a Troubleshooting section, so please read that if you are having any
problems.


---CURRENTLY KNOWN ABOUT ISSUES

x  ERASER CTF:
   If you set up specific CTF teams using 16 or more bots between them
   and you then set your own team it seems to overload the server.  You
   may find the map loads twice and, once it starts, you see all messages
   twice (eg -
   "Morbo has captured the red flag
   Morbo has captured the red flag"
   The current solution is to de-select your team from the MAIN tab and
   launch like that (however this only allows you one more CTF team).
   Either that or spawn Random bots instead)  This isn't ideal, of
   course, and I will try to correct this in a future release.

x  WINDOWS LARGE SCREEN FONTS:
   Problems have been reported when using the above.  There are two
   solutions.  Firstly, don't use large screen fonts.  :-)  Secondly,
   there are command-line options available to change the font size for
   every control in the program.  See the end of the Instructions file
   for more information.  If you do not understand this, then feel free
   to send me an email and I will talk you through it.

x  GRAPHICAL SKIN SELECTOR
   If you hold down the mouse button over the scrollbar (ie to make it
   skip through loads of entries at once) it stops after a couple.  This
   is annoying but has been done to avoid a crash that happened if too many
   pictures were loaded in rapid succession.  If I can find another way round
   this I'll change it..!



---IMPORTANT NOTE

Some options may have little effect depending on whether "Deathmatch",
"Capture The Flag" or "Deathmatch Teamplay" is selected.  At a later
date various bits and pieces will be greyed out, or there will be
visible warnings or something.  This also goes for the different
bot types.

Anyway, the TEAM tab is only really useful if "Deathmatch Teamplay"
is selected.  The CTF box on the main tab is only really useful if
"Capture The Flag" is selected.  The BOTS tab is only really useful
if "Deathmatch" is selected.


---HOW TO USE THE DAMN THING

Firstly, two programs now come with the official BotJohnny release.
"EraseJohnny.Exe" is the main program, so run this one..!

"ProfileManager.exe" is the Profile Manager.  This allows you to
rename and delete profiles, edit various aspects of the bot "Plug-Ins",
edit the sex of various models, manually edit the custom map categories
and so on.  You can access this program by clicking the "Profile" button
at the top left of the BotJohnny main window.  It is also used to edit
the game paths, bot settings and custom maps lists directly from
BotJohnny's PATHS tab.

Note, if you downloaded the full version you should also have a file
called "Bots.exe" present.  If this is sitting in your BotJohnny
folder, it will be run automatically when BotJohnny starts.  This extracts
extra files that you need that cannot be included in the main archive
(erm.. technical reasons..)  When this has been completed, it will ask if
you want to delete this file as it is no longer needed.  Answer YES here
unless you have serious reasons for doing otherwise, or it will extract
it every single time you run.  Which will be a pain in the arse.  :)

There are buttons to read proper help files from both BotJohnny
and Profile Manager.  Context sensitive help is also available by pressing
F1.

I am kind of hoping that it should all be easy to use anyway...!!



---DISCLAIMER

The author of BotJohnny can, in no way, take any responsibility for the use of
the program, even if it decides to delete your hard disk and slip amphetamines
up your modem.  **You use this program at your own risk**.

It is strongly recommended... I mean, I URGE you really, truly, please back up
your Eraser config files (BOTS.CFG, MAPS.TXT, CHAT.TXT, AUTOEXEC.CFG) before you use
BotJohnny as they WILL be changed by the program.  These are now backed up automatically
for you into a sub-folder of "Eraser" called BACKUP, but you must accept responsibility
for checking that this has been done.  ;-)

Of course, this program is free.  But comments are welcome.  Unless they consist
entirely of abuse.



NOTE - everything else has been moved into the help file..!