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UK-Elect Release 1.60
*** Shareware Vendor Information ***
1. Short description :
Extremely comprehensive National, Local and By-election
forecasting and analysis program which includes full 1987
and 1992 UK election results and high-quality "live" VGA
maps.
2. Medium description :
UK-Elect is an extremely comprehensive National, Local and
By-election forecasting and analysis program which includes
full 1987 and 1992 UK election and subsequent By-election
results. It includes high-quality "live" VGA maps which can
be used to answer thousands of questions, such as "show the
most vulnerable Tory seats". It can be used to predict the
outcome of elections, simulate the effect of factors such as
voter loyalty and examine the results of previous elections.
Results can be converted into their proportional
representation equivalents.
3. Long description :
UK-Elect is an extremely comprehensive National, Local and
By-election forecasting and analysis program which includes
full 1987 and 1992 UK election and subsequent By-election
results. It includes high-quality "live" VGA maps which can
be used to answer thousands of questions, such as "show the
most vulnerable Tory seats". It can be used to predict the
outcome of elections, simulate the effect of factors such as
voter loyalty and examine the results of previous elections.
Results can be converted into their proportional
representation equivalents. A wide range of election
information is included, from a list of UK Prime Ministers
to details of the world's most rigged election. Anybody with
a professional, personal, or educational interest in
politics will find this program invaluable.
4. Differences from the previous versions :
Release 1.60 is a major update. The many significant
enhancements include "live" maps which can answer questions
such as "where are the best prospects for Labour gains".
The full Christchurch and Newbury by-election results are
also included.
5. Minimum hardware requirements :
NEEDS : 1.2 Mb disk space, 640Kb memory.
CAN DO WITH : hard disk, 286 processor, VGA.
6. Recommended shareware program sub-category :
Any of:
a) Politics (preferred category)
or b) Education
or c) Special Interest
or d) Hobbies/Activities
or e) Data-base
7. Authors :
UK-Elect is (c) T.P. and J.C. Bickerstaff 1991-1993
To contact the authors write to:
Tim Bickerstaff
(UK-Elect)
104 Waterloo Road
SOUTHAMPTON
SO1 3BT
8. Registration Information :
The standard registration fee is fifteen pounds.
Benefits to users include
a full copy of the latest complete UK-Elect release,
a voucher for one free upgrade,
more VGA maps (covering all of the UK),
extra utilities,
updated data files, including new election results.
(Full details are contained in the file REGISTER.DOC.)
9. Vendor distribution :
UK-Elect Release 1.60 is supplied to shareware vendors in
compressed self-extracting form. A simple installation batch
file is also included on the disk; this may be replaced by
the vendor's own preferred installation routine.
UK-Elect has been compressed using Yoshi's LHA program.
Shareware vendors and sysops may compress UK-Elect using
their own preferred program (e.g. PKZIP). Where UK-Elect is
split across two disks it is recommended that the maps (.MAP
and .MPI files) are contained in one archive, and everything
else in the other.
10. Thanks :
Many thanks to all the vendors who stock UK-Elect.
11. A final thought :
As I said for Release 1.50..
I admire vendors creativity in coming up with so many
different categories to place UK-Elect under that it often
takes me ages to find it in catalogues. What is wrong with a
"politics" sub-section anyway? There are tens of thousands
of councillors, hundreds of thousands of political party
members, and millions of interested voters. Surely UK-Elect
can't be the ONLY shareware politics program? (And if it is,
think of that HUGE market..)
But at least I'm pleased to see the increasing interest
being taken in UK-Elect - and the increase in space given to
advertising it. May you satisfy many customers..
Tim Bickerstaff, October 1993