• xtrn/syncalert/README.md xtrn/syncdawn/README.md xtrn/syncduke/README.

    From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon Jul 27 20:26:18 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/262904156d4160bafa1c3a07
    Added Files:
    xtrn/syncalert/README.md xtrn/syncdawn/README.md xtrn/syncduke/README.md
    Log Message:
    xtrn: give SyncDuke, SyncAlert and SyncDawn installed-door READMEs

    These were the last of the newer doors with no sysop-facing documentation
    in the directory a sysop actually installs; what existed lived under src/doors/, which a binary install does not have. Each README follows
    the SyncDOOM and SyncArcade shape -- what it is, terminal support,
    getting the binary, installing, game data, configuration, playing,
    logging -- and leads with whatever that door makes a sysop decide first.

    For SyncDuke that is the binary: it ships with neither Synchronet nor a download on *nix, and the installer aborts rather than register a door it cannot run. Its block-character tier is documented as a real fallback
    rather than a placeholder, since it is why SyncDuke alone among these
    carries no graphics-required gate, and the 2-player co-op section says
    plainly that same-host play needs no [net] setup and that the game
    protocol has no authentication.

    For SyncAlert and SyncDawn it is the data: both ship none, and both
    depend on a freeware download. Both note that network play is absent
    from the menu by design -- the engine cannot discover peers from inside a
    door -- so a sysop does not read its absence as a broken install.
    SyncDawn's says outright that skirmish exists and is played against Red
    Alert's base-building AI, which is not true of the 1995 original and is
    easy to assume away; its [game] captions key is documented as the
    accessibility control it is.

    Neither claims campaign support. The engine carries the missions and
    nothing gates them, but they are not on this door's tested path, so the
    READMEs call them untried rather than either promising or denying them.

    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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