Subj : Re: BRE question
To   : Michael Gilbert
From : Scott Adams
Date : Tue May 27 2003 04:36 am

 -=> Quoting Michael Gilbert to All <=-

 MG> I've got a BRE question and I should preface this by saying I'm not a
 MG> sysop, don't understand much at all about how BRE works, don't know
 MG> DOS, and basically don't know crap. So, if you can help and have time
 MG> to, you have my immense gratitude for having patience with an idiot..
 MG> ;) 
 MG> Some friends of mine just finished doing sort of a class project using
 MG> data from BRE, which is over, and so are finals, so we're looking to
 MG> have some fun and want to play a BRE tournament with each other.  I
 MG> miraculously managed to get BRE set up properly to run on my machine
 MG> just as a pure local setup, in DOS, no BBS or anything.

 MG> Problem:  the "day" never changes.  What we'd like is to be able to
 MG> play our turns each, then trigger "next day" and each play our turns,
 MG> etc, until we've wasted the afternoon away / someone wins / we're too
 MG> drunk to keep playing.  Sort of "speed BRE" if you will.  But the damn
 MG> day never seems to change in my game.  Any ideas?  Any help?  please?

        You will have to change the physical date on the computer.
        The problem with this is BRE has a feature now that detects
        when the clock is changed.  So it might not run it'll bomb
        out with such a message.  So I'm not sure how you can change
        the date manually and get around this.  Now if only you could
        write a program to advance time rapidly so bre doesn't detect
        the snafu :)



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