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PentriSoft Information
Welcome to PentriSoft! The details below outline the association and
how to join it. If you decide that you do want to join, run the registration
program on the disk. Here, you can enter information about yourself,
and save the file onto a blank floppy to return to me. More instructions
are in the doc file. I am interested to know about your computer
set-up, and which programming language(s) you use.
I also wish to know any programs that you may have written so that I
can send all members a list of PentriSoft programs. This list should
then be included with all members' current or future programs, thus
providing some free advertising. Note that it is also important,
therefore, to state how much the programs cost, or whether they are
available from elsewhere.
Also on this disk:
- The Registration Program and readme
- Issue One of DoubleClick! (run the 'Extract' icon to decompress to
floppy) More about this later.
- Picture files (IFF format) of the PentriSoft logo. Feel free to use them
in your programs, and don't hesitate to modify them (eg size, colour,
resolution) to suit your needs.
- A text file of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
As a member of PentriSoft, you can benefit from the following services
free of charge:
- Direct links to other friendly members to share tips and advice
- Beta testing and debugging by users and/or programmers (see later)
- Advice on distribution, interfaces, enhancements, and other program
areas from PentriSoft members
- The use of the PentriSoft name and logo in your programs; help us
to build a reputation
- The opporutunity to contribute to the PentriSoft diskmag
'DoubleClick!' (see later).
- Advertising of your programs in other members' programs
We also hope to provide these services, in time:
- The right to have your software checked and awarded the `PentriSoft
mark of quality'
- Distribution opportunities among members and outside the
association
- Maybe further 'proper' advertising facilities (at a cost, though!)
If you have any ideas for things which could be provided by PentriSoft,
then don't hesitate to tell us!
Note that copyright of all PentriSoft programs remains with the
programmer(s) who wrote them.
These opportunities are available to all members, and to take
advantage of them, just send back the questionnaire supplied to this
address:
Mark Harman
3 Highlea Close
St. Leonards on-sea
East Sussex
TN37 7SS
(I have not yet got a modem, so you can't contact me that way...)
When I receive your application, I will do my best to put you in contact
with programmer(s) of the same language, and possibly with the same
programming interests, but as we are fairly new, this will not be as
swiftly happening as I would have liked.
If you wish, please enclose a sample of your work. If you wish to give
us further information about yourself at this stage, please feel free, as
it will help all of us to get to know each other. A bit about ourselves is
provided in the FAQs.
To join PentriSoft, programmers must agree to:
- Create honest, original software which is, as far as possible, bug-free
- Provide suitable `read me' information or other documentation and
some form of user support
- Only use the PentriSoft name on programs that have been produced
in accordance with these terms
- Use the facilities available through PentriSoft honestly and in good
faith
(We reserve the right to end a programmer's membership with
PentriSoft at any time, should we feel the need to.)
We now have the beginnings of a beta testing service; please see the
Beta_List document for more details.
DoubleClick! is the PentriSoft diskmag. It's mainly based around
programming, but covers other aspects of computing too. The latest
issue may be enclosed, but as there are two versions (one requiring
AGA machine and Hard disk, the other requiring OS2.0 and 1MB
RAM), I may have to send it when you've told me what spec machine
you've got. I will send new issues out whenever I write to somebody,
etc. Articles will be gratefully received; see the current issue for more
details. Issue One was reviewed in December '96 Amiga Format, they
said: 'The first issue of Doubleclick looks very promising' and 'this
could be the ultimate diskmag' (among many other things...) To be this,
we need articles and submissions, so get writing!
DoubleClick! distribution. As far as future issues are concerned it is
difficult for me to send out a copy to everybody, but whenever I do
write to people, I will send the latest copy as well. If you want to be
guarnteed of the next issue, just send me a blank disk and a stamp,
and I'll send it when it's ready. Actually, you could use the Subscription
method detailed in issue two onwards, which would get each issue as
they come immediately, but you don't have to.
DMS compression: Unless someone has specifically sent a blank disk
for DoubleClick!, I may have to compress it using DMS. In this case,
there will be an extract icon to decompress to a floppy.
NB: This text file and the FAQs are freely distributable, but the
PentriSoft name and logo are ONLY to be used in programs of
registered PentriSoft members. Also, the Beta_List should only be
available for members. Note that you don't have to send us your
programs for evaluation or anything just to release them under the
PentriSoft name.
DoubleClick! is freely distributable, see the mag itself for more details.
Feel free to give it to anyone and everyone!
DoubleClick!, this text file and the FAQ on this disk may be distributed
only if they are not altered (unless I give my permission, of course).
Mark Harman, President of PentriSoft, Amiga. (Last Updated 21.11.96)