This is where I tell you a bit about this marvellous product and ask you to send a small contribution to encourage me and other shareware writers to continue producing inexpensive software like this for the general public. All I ask is £20 or equivalent (see table). If you don't send me anything then I'm afraid you are putting the future of shareware – value-for-money software in huge variety – at risk, and extending the tentacles of the global monopolists. Thanks in advance.
Shareware fees:
UK USA Aus Fra
Standard rate: £20 $35 $45 200F
Student/Part-time: £10 $20 $30 120F*
Unemployed/Union: £6 $15 $15 60F *
NB Reduced rates (donated by *) apply only to payments in cash or UK pounds, because bank charges are so high.
I've spent ages writing this program, from November 1992 to May 1994 on the QuickBASIC versions – 1.0 to 4.5; and since December 1993 on the C versions – 5.0c and later. The "c" after the version number is an indication that versions 5.0c and later were written in the language C, which makes for product of much greater speed and quality. This is just one reason why my Biorhythms program is the most powerful biorhythms application available for any computer.
• Microsoft products were used at no stage during the development of this product.
My address (again) is: Andrew Regan, 27 Queens Road, Warsash, Southampton, Hants, S031 9JY, ENGLAND, while my e-mail addresses are: Andrew_G.D._Regan@iconex.mactel.org and CompuServe 101636,547. I am a student but don’t let that put you off.
This piece of software, like most shareware, is not a product of the free market. Wouldn’t you rather support shared knowledge for the collective advancement of society rather than Bill Gates’ bank account?
Compatibility
Biorhythms should work on any MacOS computer with System 7 or later – System 6 is not supported. Although colour is not essential, Biorhythms will work very much better with it. If you want to use drag and drop you will need System 7.1 with the Macintosh Drag and Drop extension installed or System 7.5 or later.
If you have any problems with Biorhythms running on your own particular system/memory/model configuration then I would greatly appreciate it if you would tell me the symptoms, as accurately as you can, so I can fix the problem for the next version.
Tools used to create my Biorhythms program:
Metrowerks CodeWarrior Academic 8, ZoneRanger 1.2 and 1.7; Symantec THINK C 6.0, 7.0, and 7.0.1; ResEdit 2.1.1 and 2.1.3; ClarisWorks 2.0; DocMaker 4.1; EvenBetterBusError; DisposeResource; DoubleTrouble; Apple’s System versions 6.0.5, 7.0.1, 7.5, and 7.5.1; MacsBug 6.5d6 and Discipline 2.0.2; plus CentralPoint Software’s DiskFix®.
