DopeWars is a PalmOS clone of an old DOS game of the same name. The original DOS version was written by John Dell. DopeWars was originally created for the Palm by Matthew Lee while he was at MIT. Matt hasn't made available any changes or updates to the game in about 3 years. Also in that time he has left MIT and has taken down the DopeWars website. Taking all that into account, another developer, Michael Hallett, decided to fix the known bugs and add a few new features. He also decided to host a website for the game, which is in the planning stage.

DopeWars is not intended for audiences under the age of 18 due to its drug-related content.

"This program is freeware, and the source code is available free of charge as well at the DopeWars web site. I believe the Palm community could use more quality free programs and less poor-quality shareware programs. Also, I learned PalmOS programming from studying other programmers' code, and I hope new programmers might learn something from my code as well." -- Matt Lee

Revision History

2.4.6

• forced the DopeWarsDB file to be backed up to the PC during a HotSync operation

2.4.1

• fixed bug with the shotgun (cop count went negative)
• changed cash/debt/savings displays to display "$x.x Q" when amount is over $10 Quintillion
• re-added the score verification feature so you can report your high scores on the website
• added the appropriate titles when you finish the game in cheat mode with $1 trillion or more

• debt now increases in cheat mode
• huge coat cheat now give you a coat size of 1000 instead of 999
• slight increase to the frequency you can buy a gun
• fixed bug in cash/debt/savings when values go over 2 billion
• changed cash/debt/savings displays to display "$x.x B" when amount is over $10 billion
• changed cash/debt/savings displays to display "$x.x T" when amount is over $10 trillion
• moved over coat size to allow for large coat size displays of xxxx/xxxx
• fixed cancel button bug on travel screen for PalmOS 5
• added 60 and 90 day game options to cheat menu
• added shotgun option --> if you have a gun you will randomly have a chance to upgrade to a shotgun which kills 2 cops if you hit

• fixed crash bug in PalmOS 3.5.2 in the loan shark and bank screens
• added "Entire Debt" payment button and "Max Amount" borrowing button to loan shark dialogs
• added periodic "reminders" from the loan shark thugs when your debt goes past $100,000
• changed Ludes to Ecstasy, just to be a little more modern (no change in pricing though)
• temporarily removed score verification feature (it will be back later)

• added "Max" button to buy/sell dialogs that buys or sells the maximum allowable amount
• added cheat menu to make it easier to cheat
• changed cash/debt/savings displays to display "$x.x M" when amount is over $100 million
• made buy screen say "a lot" if the allowable purchase quantity is over 1000 added "Current location:" to Travel screen

• changed loan shark to be more giving (30x cash instead of 4x)

• changed loan shark to be more giving (4x cash instead of 2x)
• added high score verification for upcoming website
• removed $ from "None" entries in price table
• made Cancel button hidden on initial Travel screen

• put a limit on loan shark borrowing
• fixed a nasty hard-to-reach UI bug

• added auto save/resume game feature
• added cheat codes! (see Game Info for details)

• fixed bugs in numeric input fields
• removed the "1" in numeric fields by default

• changed it so that focus jumps to input text fields in buy/sell dialogs.

• added a high score table

• first release version