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- TAKING UP THE POINT OF DIFFICULTY IN REGISTERING PROGRAMS RAISED LAST
- ISSUE IS EDD AND BRIAN WHO GIVE US AN INSIGHT INTO HOW THEY HANDLE THINGS
- AND ALSO SOME HANDY ADDRESSES WHERE YOUR MONEY IS SURE TO FIND IT`S
- INTENDED TARGET.
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- NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF SHAREWARE USE AND ANY
- MORE INFO ON THIS SAME SUBJECT WOULD BE VERY WELCOME.
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- THE ADRESSES GIVEN HERE SHALL REMAIN IN FUTURE ISSUES IN ORDER TO
- CREATE A LIST OF UP TO DATE ADDRESSES FOR REGISTERING SOFTWARE,IF YOU
- FIND OUT THAT ANY OF THESE ARE THEMSELVES UPDATED PLEASE CONTACT ME.
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- PROGRAM REGISTERING
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- At one time I was like everyone else who had a working demo of a program,
- I said to myself "Why should I send any money to the person who wrote the
- program". I can use the program okay and the bits that don't work I don't
- need, so it went on until I got a program (Address v1.6) that I was using
- all the time, but had a limited amount of records that I could input.
- The registration blurb said that registered owners could input records
- only limited by the computers memory. I thought about it for a bit and
- finally admitted that it would be a good idea if I did register it, after
- all it was only a measly £5.
- The first thing I did was write the author a letter to confirm that he
- was still at the same address (very important to check before sending any
- money), the author sent me a letter confirming his address. Now there was
- nothing stopping me sending my £5, except I still had this fear that I
- could still be ripped off (remember this was my first registration).
- Still feeling that I would never see anything for my money, I constructed
- a registration form with 1st Word (which I use for all my registrations)
- and with my £5, posted it. Less than a week later I received a master
- disc of the program (which I immediately installed) plus 2 manuals,
- which where of almost professional quality. The author also sent me a
- personal number which I could use when I rang the help line (yes, you
- even get a help line). All in all it had a professional look to it and
- the program is excellent, which I use to this day to store all my
- address's.
- With that one letter all the lame excuses for not registering
- disappeared, so far I have registered a further 4 programs. I have to
- admit although they are PD, they still look commercial quality, imagine
- what you would have to pay if you had to register it on a commercial
- level. I highly recommend that you register any program that you use on
- a regular basis and support the authors.
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- The following are a few things that you should do before registering
- any program:
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- 1. Always check that the person that you are registrating with is still
- at the same address and hasn't moved.
- 2. Try and register the newest version that you can, you may not be able
- to register older versions.
- 3. Try and make sure the registration address is in the UK (see notes
- below).
- 4. If it's some other form of registration such as POSTCARDWARE, then
- drop the author a postcard (you'll be amazed what can happen).
- 5. If you don't register programs, then authors may stop producing
- program and cease to support the Atari.
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- I wrote earlier that you'd be amazed what can happen if you send an
- author a post card or some other form of registration (most authors like
- to know where the programs have gone and who is using them). Well, I sent
- a postcard to Bob Kell (the author of this disc mag actually) and now
- I'm typing articles for his disc mag, which a few weeks ago I never
- dreamed I'd be doing.
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- Sending registrations abroad is a bit tricky, because once you send your
- money abroad you may never see it again, although that can happen in the
- UK as well. In the UK you have more chance of doing something about it
- than out of the country, personally I will only register a program if the
- author's address is in the UK.
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- But remember you don't have to register every single program you have,
- only those ones that you like and use the most.
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- REGISTRATION ADDRESS'S
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- My small list of address's I've regristrated software with:
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- RUFTRADE
- Charles Edwards
- 3, Hunters Way
- Croydon
- CR0 5JJ
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- GLASS BUTTOCK OF THARG/GRANDAD AND THE QUEST FOR THE HOLEY VEST/GRANDAD
- AND THE SEARCH FOR HIS SANDWICHES
- Ian Scott REPLACES
- 9,St Lawrence Close 99,Mill Lane
- Beccles Bradwell
- Suffolk Gt Yarmouth
- England
- NR34 9EW
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- SUPERCARD V3.13a
- B.Ware Software
- 19, Southfield Road
- Hinckley
- Leics
- LE10 1UA
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- I have also registrated a program called SCOUT v2, but the author no
- longer has an Atari so I'll be writing to him for permission to deal with
- the registration's on his behalf, I'll include it in the registration
- address software list if the author agrees.
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- Dear Bob,
- During the first year that I had my St I sent off
- for a lot of PD disk's and tried to register several of them.I decided it
- was best to check out the address given before sending any money.I had no
- response at all.That was that until this year when on a cover disk was a
- program that I really wanted,it was ST Diary.Because it was on a cover
- disk I thought there might be a better chance of the address being ok.This
- proved to be the case and I posted off my £9.00 registration fee to the
- nice man who programed the disk.In return I recieved a registered copy of
- the program with my name in it and more features in the program.A printed
- 35 page manual is also the reward for registering so allthough it seemed a
- bit expensive it turned out to be good value.I use the diary every day and
- the note pad and address data base make it a really good(High Res only)
- program.
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- ST DIARY....SIMON WILKINSON
- WILKINSON ENTERPRISES(UK)
- 2,HIGH BUCKSTONE,
- EDINBURGH.
- EH10 6XS.
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- B.G.S.
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