Applicants who register ** Roboids ** will be sent a special discount coupon by the author ** Glenn Seemann ** good for a $3.00 discount off of the regular membership dues of the GAMER Project. Glenn also offers support for his games on the GAMER Project BBS which members have access to.
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• GAMER Project •
The National User Group for Recreation and Learning on the Macintosh(TM)
Purpose
The GAMER Project™ is an user group with international membership promoting the entertainment and educational qualities of the Apple Macintosh™ by offering support for game enthusiasts, educators, parents introducing their kids to computers, and shareware authors seeking convenient distribution of their software worldwide. The bimonthly disk-based magazine published by the GAMER Project fills a niche that the corporate oriented magazines neglect, namely the Home & School Mac™.
A focus on the "Home Mac" includes reviewing and exploring entertainment software whether it be game software proper or preschool software to amuse and teach the kids. The "Home Mac" involves exploring utilities to enhance non-computer hobbies, such as software for organizing one's album/CD, book, coin, stamp, videotape, and other collections. There are hundreds of shareware and commercial programs available for the Mac which can turn one's Mac into everything from a "home planetarium" to a "pinball machine" and these types of programs are not neglected.
A focus on the "School Mac" includes reviewing and exploring educational software for all subjects and all ages, whether it be the fundamentals of reading, grade school or high school math, college physics, or references on things as diverse as art masterpieces, beer breweries, and orchestral instruments. Also, teaching aids for educators, and learning aids for students are given coverage.
Representatives of the GAMER Project can be contacted in several countries on the major networks: America Online™, BIX™, CompuServe™, Connect™, Fidonet™, GEnie™, Usenet/Internet.
Benefits
Members of the GAMER Project are mailed 6 issues of the organization's bimonthly publication, Home & School Mac, which features articles, reviews, and interviews covering Macintosh entertainment and educational/children's issues, information not readily found anywhere else. Each issue contains 75 - 125 pages of material. Along with each issue of this disk-based magazine, 1000k - 1200k of the best shareware game and educational software which has been released during the previous two months is included. Finally, members may call the GAMER Project BBS (which features an easy to use Macintosh interface) to access the largest known collection of Mac entertainment and educational shareware, as well as to participate in message bases created for discussion of Mac entertainment & educational topics. Several shareware authors also provide support for their programs on the GAMER Project BBS.
Shareware Authors (of game and educational/children's software) benefit by having a convenient centralized means of distributing their software to the widest possible market. Such software can be mailed to the Shareware Distribution Manager for prompt circulation throughout North America and Europe via the major networks: America Online™, BIX™, CompuServe™, Connect™, Fidonet™, GEnie™, and Usenet/Internet. Shareware authors have full access to the GAMER Project BBS whether they opt to join the GAMER Project or not, including a private "Shareware Authors Roundtable" to discuss techniques of programming and distribution with other authors. Also the GAMER Project BBS provides a forum for authors to support their programs, as well as to gather bug reports and suggestions for improvements or new games. Yearly GAMER Project "Excellence in Shareware Programming" awards for the categories of "entertainment" and "education" will be presented (based on a poll of the membership). The honored programmers will receive cash and/or software.
Non-Profit User Groups benefit since newsletter editors have permission to reprint the articles and reviews contained within Home & School Mac for the enjoyment of their readers. Software librarians of non-profit user groups may distribute issues of Home & School Mac on their Disk-of-the-Month or include them within their shareware libraries.
Applying For Membership (Membership Discount for Registering Shadow Keep)
Annual membership dues for the GAMER Project are: US/Mexico $15, Canada $17, All Other Countries $21. Dues for shareware authors are discounted 50% off the full membership rate. US applicants may send personal checks (made out to GAMER Project), but applicants outside the US must send an international postal money order. (*Shareware authors of Mac entertainment, educational, and children's software have access to the GAMER Project BBS regardless of whether they become members of the GAMER Project).
Applicants who register ** Roboids ** will be sent a special discount coupon by the author ** Glenn Seemann ** good for a $3.00 discount off of the regular membership dues of the GAMER Project. Glenn also offers support for his games on the GAMER Project BBS which members have full access to.
Name ______________________________ I am/am not interested the
formation of a GAMER Project
Address ______________________________ BBS. (in the USA)
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Enclosed is: $15 for US/Mexico, $17 for Canadian, $21 All Other Countries (Shareware authors deduct 50% from full membership price.)
* For $3.00 discount for registering a shareware program, you MUST include the coupon you received from the "participating" shareware author. Only 1 discount coupon can be applied per year toward one's membership. If you encounter a shareware author which knows nothing of this special discount program, please have them contact the GAMER Project about getting discount coupons.
Make checks out to GAMER Project (members outside the US must send an international postal money order or draft written on a US bank) and mail to:
GAMER Project
15 Everglades St.
Kenner, LA 70065, USA
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*Survey* (This will be used to guide the selection of the software included on the disk with each issue of Home & School Mac™)
