Hi. This is a development release of asss ("a small subspace server").
If you have any questions or comments, mail them to grelminar@yahoo.com.
The forum at http://forums.minegoboom.com/ (not run by me) is also a
helpful resource.

There is documentation available at http://sscx.net/asss/userguide.html.
There are also several text files in the "doc" directory that might be
of interest to developers.

To start using this thing, just run asss.bat from the root directory of
this distribution (the directory that this file is in). Or run
"bin/asss.exe" from that directory.

You can close it with the sysop command ?shutdown, or just with a
Ctrl-C.

Note the presence of several empty directories: log, data, and tmp.
Don't remove any of them, the server needs them to be there to create
files in.


If you want to connect to a billing server, you can either use the
'billing_ssc' module or the 'billing' module with the proxy. The proxy
requires a relatively recent (2.1+) version of Python. The billing_ssc
module is somewhat better tested than the alternative.


Known bugs:

nothing major as of now.


Contributors:

These are people who have contribued stuff to the actual code. Many
others have provided support in other forms, and they are thanked in the
user guide.

Grelminar <grelminar@yahoo.com> - primary author
Mine GO BOOM <?> - objects, watchdamage, other stuff
divine.216 <?> - banners
GiGaKiLLeR <gigamon@hotmail.com> - the turf scoring modules
Stag Shot <ffl2000vv@yahoo.com> - soccer scoring, game timers
PriitK <?> - continuum support, ssc biller support
Catid <?> - many security fixes, mark, file administration, objects
Smong <?> - misc. documentation and fixes
Snrrrub <snrrrub@yahoo.com> - misc. fixes and other stuff
Dr Brain <?> - initial ?putmap implementation
The Junky <the_junky@extreme-games.net> - alias db enhancements