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14 <h1>dopewars and Microsoft Windows</h1>
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16 <p>dopewars runs natively on Win32 systems (Windows 7 or later). It runs by
17 default as a dopewars client, using the familiar Windows interface, but
18 the traditional text-mode client is also available on Windows, as well as
19 the dopewars server and AI players.
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22 <p>Binaries can be obtained from the main
23 <a href="https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/download.html">download site</a>, or
24 dopewars can be
25 <a href="https://github.com/benmwebb/dopewars/blob/develop/win32/README.md">built
26 from source code</a>.</p>
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28 <p>In virtually all respects, the Unix and Win32 versions of dopewars should be
29 identical. Both will accept the same command line parameters and configuration
30 options. However, since the standard Unix paths for the high score file and
31 configuration files do not translate well to Windows, by default the program
32 will look for the high score file <b>dopewars.sco</b> in the current
33 user's application data directory (e.g.
34 <tt>C:\Users\foo\AppData\Local\dopewars\</tt>), and will read a global
35 configuration file <b>dopewars-config.txt</b> from the directory in which the
36 dopewars binary was installed, followed by a per-user configuration file of
37 the same name in the AppData directory.</p>
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39 <p>The dopewars server can function as a
40 <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/windows-services/introduction-to-windows-service-applications">Windows service</a> when run with
41 the <tt>-N</tt> flag. One way to set this up is to use the
42 <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/sc-create">sc create</a> utility from a command prompt, e.g.</p>
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44 <p><tt>sc create dopewars binpath= "C:\Program Files\dopewars-1.6.1\dopewars.exe -N"</tt></p>
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46 <p>Note that this will run dopewars as the Local System user, so will look for
47 high score/config files (and create a log file) in the corresponding AppData
48 directory, e.g. <tt>C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local</tt>.</p>
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