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- TO ALL AMIGA PROGRAMMERS IN ANY LANGUAGE
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- Following are details of how to submit programs for evaluation.
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- 1) The program you are submitting must be 100% your own work, you will be
- personally responsible for any breaches of copyright and as the copyright
- of your program will stay with you and not F1 you will be sued not us.
- Also the program must be exclusive to us and previously unreleased, except
- in demo form or if you have upgraded the software sufficiently. There may
- be other exceptions, ask us if you are not sure, we can only say no at worse.
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- 2) All programs submitted must be compatible with Amiga`s 500/500+/600/1200
- standard memory configurations. Exceptions being things like AGA only.
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- 3) Please include the following details about your program:
- Basic outline of what it does, Language written in, Cheat modes (if any)
- How many levels (if applicable) which Amiga`s you have been able to test
- it on. Your name, address and phone number.
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- 4) Please supply full documentation on disk in ASCII. Amiga file is OK but
- you must set it all up.
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- 5) Please supply a stamp with all correspondence if you want a reply.
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- If we accept your program
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- Your program will be sold for £3.99 if it is on 1 disk £4.99 2 disks etc.
- Your royalty per copy sold will be 25% of the selling price for example:
- Sold at £3.99 (£1 royalty) £4.99 (£1.25 royalty) etc.
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- Our top three selling programs authors each quarter will receive cash bonuses
- (TBA).
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- If we accept your program you will be sent a contract to sign, read it
- carefully and if you are happy with it sign it and return as soon as
- possible. All programs accepted will be sent to all relevant magazines for
- review. Please leave sending review copies out to us as this is part of our
- service to you.
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- Every three months you will receive a cheque from F1 if your program has
- earnt 5.00 or more, if it has not then the money will be held over until the
- next quarter.
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- If we cannot accept your program we will let you know within a week, maximum.
- We will tell you exactly what we think is wrong with it and may offer advice
- and ideas to make your program acceptable to us.
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- Some questions we have been asked by programmers recently
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- Q. How, when and how much will I be paid for my program?
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- A. Royalties are calculated at 25% of the purchase price of your program
- so if your program is being sold at £3.99 you will receive 1.00
- for each and every copy we sell for you. Cheques will be sent directly
- to the programmers every quarter.
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- Q. What type of programs are F1 looking for?
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- A. Anything of quality including games/utilities/educational, as long as your
- program is better quality than a good P.D equivelent then you have a
- chance of acceptance, only about one in five programs are accepted by us.
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- Q. Are there any rules for sending in my program for evaluation?
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- A. Yes, State your name/address/phone number on the disk label, All programs
- must be original work and previously un-released, we can make
- exceptions if you have distributed demo versions or tried selling by
- mail order unsuccessfully! Every program must come with FULL on disk
- documentation or instructions inside the program itself, this is very
- important and we can make NO exceptions. Please let us know the minimum
- memory requirements (if known) and let us know what machines you know
- your program will run on, the minimum requirements are 500/500+ 600/1200
- we can make exceptions in some cases on this point, please let us know
- which language your program is written in and the language version, for
- example Amos V1.36, this will help us work out compatibility.
- We will not except any obscene subject matter or anything likely to
- offend.
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- Q. What else can F1 offer us programmers apart from our royalty?
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- A. Not a lot! Well you can get 20% off of all our Licenceware products.
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- Q. How are you going to sell my program?
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- A. We will do everything in our power to sell your product, At the time of
- writing we have twelve distributers selling F1 products and we expect
- more to join us soon, We will send review copies of all our products to
- ALL relevant mags and will be coaxing news stories and plugs in any and
- every mag on the market We have also been advertising in
- the top Amiga mags, but this will be slowing down as we take on more
- distributers as they will be advertising for us.
- selling your program is the only way we can survive so you can be sure we
- will be doing our best.
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- Q. How do we know you will pay us the correct amount of royalties?
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- A. You don`t! This is a trust thing, but saying that all our income will be
- from postal customers and they will mostly be paying by cheque which will
- have to go through the F1 bank account which the taxman will have his
- eye on for any discrepancies, we will publish sales records of every disk
- which will be sent to you with your cheque, in any case we are honest
- people (Husband, wife and two kids) trying to make an honest living and we
- want F1 to be a long term job for us and to do this successfully we have
- to build a bond of trust with our programmers. I have been stitched up in
- the past myself and you get to know who the straight people are very
- quickly, we wouldn`t last long being dishonest it is in our interest to be
- straight with you in the long run.
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- Q. What happens if my program just simply does not sell?
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- A. We will give it every chance but if sales are zero for a year we may
- offer to release it back to you but as it costs us nothing to keep it
- on we will if you want us to.
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- Q. Can I put adverts in my program for other products of mine not Licenced
- to F1?
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- A. Within reason, yes you can, most other Licenceware outfits won`t allow it.
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- Q. What do you do with all those disks you are sent?
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- A. Not what you think! The disks that people send us (unless they
- pacifically ask for them back) we use to send out review copies to all the
- magazines. when you consider there are ten+ mags on the market this can
- add up to a lot of disks, (I sent out 64 review disks in june alone)
- so basically your disks help us to keep costs down and therefore the
- selling price down and more money for advertising, so be generous and let
- us keep your disks.
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- If you have any questions or anything you are not sure of drop us a line
- and we will be pleased to answer your questions.
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- F1 Licenceware
- 31 Wellington Rd,
- Exeter. Devon.
- EX2-9DU
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- * NO PERSONAL CALLERS PLEASE, UNFRIENDLY DOG! *
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