Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation Document SNI will use this Quality Evaluation Document to evaluate your software. Please carry out a self-test of your software, objectively, before submitting your software to SNI. The most likely reasons for SNI requiring further work on software, before acceptance, are as follows: 1. Using the wrong video format, such as NTSC. Please ensure that your software is compatible with the UK and Europe. 2. Files missing from the supplied disk. Please re-install your software from the disk on your own computer, and check that it works before sending it to SNI. 3. Install program does not install all required files, even though they have been supplied on the source diskette. 4. An unacceptable level of bugs in the software. SNI prefer software to be bug free. Major bugs, or several minor bugs will result in SNI requesting further work on the product before acceptance. 5. The provision of a demonstration version of the software, instead of a full working version. SNI do not market or evaluate demonstrations. Please send only full working versions of software. 6. Poor quality product. Good value for money is essential, so please ensure that your product is of a high quality. 7. Educational products not being referenced to a specific syllabus. Educational products are likely to be more popular if they fit into a specific syllabus. Please try to find out which syllabus your educational product fits into. If you cannot, then please state the age range and subject at which the software is aimed. 8. Lack of information about the product. SNI provide a product support service on your behalf. This avoids endless phone calls to you, and ensures a consistent quality service to our club members. We therefore require sufficient information to provide such a service. Questions requiring your attention will be sent to you in a list. As you send SNI the answers to each set of questions, the SNI help desk will answer these questions in future, on your behalf. We therefore anticipate that, as long as you provide sufficient information initially, and answer any questions sent to you promptly, such question lists should be rare. If you do not provide any information about your product, (such as a user guide and a list of the most likely questions, and the answers to these questions), then SNI may request this information before commencing marketing of your product. Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation 9. Non-standard front and back screens. All marketing is carried out and managed by SNI. Club Members do not, ordinarily, contact SNI Payware authors directly (most authors prefer it that way!) SNI therefore have a standard front and back screen for all of their products. These screens may be supplemented to at the authors discretion, but must contain the following words as a minimum: * SNI OPENING (FRONT) SCREEN: ________________________________________________________________________ | | | Share Net International Ltd, | | Peterswell Lake, | | Roadwater, | | Somerset, TA23 0LE. | | Telephone (0984) 40348, Fax.(0984) 41171. | | | | This is a Payware product, written by . | | | | Register it and earn money by sharing it with others. | | | | Payware - Pay and get Paid! | | | | Important Note: If you've shared but not registered this Payware, then | | you could be missing out on monthly cheques from SNI! The more you've | | shared it, the more money you could be missing out on each month! | |________________________________________________________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation * SNI CLOSING (BACK) SCREEN: ________________________________________________________________________ | | | Share Net International Ltd, | | Peterswell Lake, | | Roadwater, | | Somerset, TA23 0LE. | | Telephone (0984) 40348, Fax.(0984) 41171. | | | | This is a Payware product - pay and get paid! | | | * | Take on the World with SNI | * * | | * * | SNI are running a world hi-score table for this Payware product. | * * | | * * | If you've registered it, simply send your hi-score to SNI with its | * * | validation code and your SNI Club Membership number, and we'll put | * * | you on our World Hi-Score table for this Payware Product. | * * | | * * | Fame through The Game with SNI | * * | | * * | SNI World Hi-Score tables are published in popular press! | * * | | * * | See your name published in national magazines! | * * | | * * | If this Payware product is used in an SNI International Tournament, | * * | and your hi-score qualifies you to take part, you will be contacted | * * | at the address given in your SNI Club Membership application. | * | | | ****************************************** | | | | Send your registration to Share Net International at the above address | | together with the club membership application on the SNI menu provided | | with this program. If the program has been separated from the SNI menu | | software, then just telephone or write to SNI requesting full details | | of our International Club Membership, and current range of Payware. | | Please state whether you are interested in Games, Education, or | | Business software, and which type of computer you have. | |________________________________________________________________________| Only include those lines from "Take on the World with SNI" to the row of asterisks on the SNI CLOSING SCREEN (those lines marked with asterisks at the edges) if you have included a check code for a Hi-Score table in your software. If your software has a hi-score table, but no check code, then why not add a check code to the hi-score results to ensure they're not faked? This will enable SNI to run a World Hi-Score table, and use your software in International Tournaments. Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE PROGRAM: ________________________________________ Software | | (Enter the name of Title: |________________________________________| your product) ________________________________________ Software | | (eg. shoot-em-up game, Category: |________________________________________| utility, education, etc) * Please briefly describe what your software does: ____________________________________________________________________________ | | |____________________________________________________________________________| | | |____________________________________________________________________________| * Please state the MINIMUM hardware/software requirements for your program: (ie. machine type, operating system, memory, etc) ____________________________________________________________________________ | | |____________________________________________________________________________| | | |____________________________________________________________________________| * Please complete the Author details in the following section in BLOCK CAPITALS: ________________________ ________________________ Last Name: | | First Name: | | |________________________| |________________________| ________ _________ ____ ___________ Initials:| | Title: | | Sex | | Date of | | | | |________| |_________| (M/F): |____| Birth: |___|___|___| ________________________________________________________________ Full | | Address: |________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________| ________________________ ________________________ Post Code/ | | Country: | | Zip Code: |________________________| |________________________| ________________________ ________________________ Home | | Work | | Telephone: |________________________| Telephone: |________________________| ________________________ National | | Insurance No|________________________| * If a Registered Business: ________________________ ________________________ Business | | VAT Number: | | Name: |________________________| |________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation ****************************************************************************** * * * ALL SOFTWARE SUBMITTED TO SNI IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING QUALITY * * EVALUATION CHECKS. PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONAIRE WHICH IS * * TO BE COMPLETED BY SHARE NET INTERNATIONAL LTD. YOU MAY WISH TO GET A * * FRIEND OR RELATIVE TO COMPLETE A COPY OF THIS QUESTIONAIRE TO SEE HOW THEY * * THINK YOUR PROGRAM RATES. * * * * ****************************************************************************** THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS TO BE COMPLETED BY SHARE NET INTERNATIONAL LTD: 1. Quality of Installation program/document. ____ | | Installation procedure operates successfully, allowing the user to |____| install the program wherever he/she wishes (ie. in ANY directory). ____ | | Installation procedure operates successfully, but only allows the |____| user to install the program in a fixed directory area. ____ | | Installation procedure only partially installs the program. The |____| program does work, but some functions/facilities do not work. ____ | | Installation procedure fails to install the program. |____| ____ | | No Installation procedure provided with this product. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| 2. Easy of Use of Installation program/document: ____ | | Installation procedure is easy to follow. |____| ____ | | Installation procedure works, but is a little tricky to follow. |____| ____ | | Installation procedure is tricky to use and is easy to get wrong. |____| ____ | | No Installation procedure provided with this product. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation 3. Quality of User Guide: ____ | | User Guide is easy to follow and covers all the facilities offered |____| by the program. ____ | | User Guide is easy to follow, but does not cover all of the |____| facilities offered by the program. ____ | | User Guide is a little tricky to understand, but covers all of the |____| facilities offered by the program. ____ | | User Guide is tricky to understand and doesn't cover all of the |____| facilities offered by the program. ____ | | No User Guide provided for this product. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| 4. Quality of Technical Documentation (if appropriate): ____ | | Technical Documentation is easy to follow and covers all the |____| facilities offered by the program ____ | | Technical Documentation is easy to follow, but does not cover all |____| of the facilities offered by the program. ____ | | Technical Documentation is a little tricky to understand, but |____| covers all of the facilities offered by the program. ____ | | Technical Documentation is tricky to understand and doesn't cover |____| all of the facilities offered by the program. ____ | | No Technical Documentation provided for this product. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation 5. General Ease of Use of the Program: ____ | | The program has a very good look-and-feel to it. It has a good, |____| consistent user-interface and is generally very easy to use. ____ | | The program is fairly easy to use, with a reasonable user-interface |____| but has a few inconsistencies in its user-interface design. ____ | | The program is moderate in its appearance with a number of |____| inconsistencies in its user-interface design. ____ | | The program is difficult to use, with a bad user-interface |____| implementation. ____ | | The program is damn near impossible to use with little or no |____| thought into what the user will have to put up with. Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| 6. Use of Graphics (only if appropriate): ____ | | The program makes excellent use of the machines graphics |____| facilities. ____ | | The program makes very good use of the available graphics |____| facilities. ____ | | The program makes adequate use of the available graphics |____| facilities. ____ | | The program is less than adequate in its graphical implementation. |____| ____ | | The program's graphical implementation is very poor. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation 7. Use of Sound Facilities (only if appropriate): ____ | | The use of available sound facilities is excellent. |____| ____ | | The program makes very good use of the available sound facilities. |____| ____ | | The program makes adequate use of the available sound facilities. |____| ____ | | The program's implementation of sound is less than adequate. |____| ____ | | The program's implementation of sound is very poor. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| 8. Program Originality: ____ | | The program is original in concept and offers many new features |____| not seen before. ____ | | The program is based on an existing concept and offers some new |____| features or ways of doing things. ____ | | The program is based on an existing concept and offers a better |____| use of old ideas. ____ | | The program is not original and offers nothing new in concept. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation 9. Overall Opinion of the Program: ____ | | The program is excellent. |____| ____ | | The program is very good. |____| ____ | | The program is adequate. |____| ____ | | The program is lacking in some areas. |____| ____ | | The program is very poor. |____| Evaluators Comments: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| Share Net International Ltd Quality Evaluation THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS TO BE COMPLETED BY SHARE NET INTERNATIONAL LTD: * Name of AntiVirus program used to check for Viruses: __________________________________________________ | | |__________________________________________________| * Version Number and Date of the AntiVirus Program Used: __________________________________________________ | | |__________________________________________________| * Evaluators Final Verdict: ____ | | ACCEPT the program exactly as it is. |____| ____ | | ACCEPT the program. The program will need modifications to it. |____| A brief description of the modifications required is given below. ____ | | REJECT the program. |____| Evaluators Comments and Recommendations: ________________________________________________________________________ | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| | | |________________________________________________________________________| * Evaluators Sign-Off: ______________________________ Name of Evaluator: | | (please print) |______________________________| ______________________________ _______________ Signature of | | Date: | | Evaluator: | | | | |______________________________| |_______________| Share Net International Limited, Peterswell Lake, Roadwater, Watchet, Somerset, TA23 0LE, England. Tel: 0984 40348, Fax: 0984 41171