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- INTRO
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- Hey! Thanks for checking out Get Lost!, a great new 3d first-person maze
- game. We hope that you enjoy playing our shareware version and that you'll
- go to our web site and grab the REGISTERED version! You can find it at
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- http://www.bombadil.com
-
- You can use your credit card to get the game immediately! In just the few
- minutes it takes to download, you can have the FULL registered version of Get
- Lost!
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-
- NOT YOUR TYPICAL LEGAL DISCLAIMER
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-
- You know and I know that computers, due to their immense complexity, are
- inherently unreliable. Programs crash, hard drives fail, monitors blowup,
- and meteors fall from the sky--these are almost always not my fault. And
- they are almost always not your fault either (although I'm not too sure
- about those meteors). Taking this into consideration, I expect all these
- things and more to happen while you are playing my game. I have done
- everything in my power to make this game as robust and forgiving as possible.
- And I really don't wish these horrible things on anybody.
-
- So the typical thing here is to deny responsibility for any disaster
- which may or may not be the result of running this program. I'll go one
- better. If you find a repeatable bug in the registered version of this game
- and can describe it in 500 words or less, send the company a letter or e-mail
- or whatever and I'll do my best to:
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- 1) repeat it myself,
- 2) fix it,
- 3) send you a copy of the corrected game, or
- 4) a sad story about how the bug beat me (which so far has never
- happened).
-
- Now I'm talking about REAL BUGS, not just something like, "You misspelled
- the word 'mispelled' in your README.TXT." This is something that actually
- prevents you from finishing the game or somehow greatly diminishes your
- enjoyment of the game. Oh yes, I'm not going to support this thing
- forever, so don't be surprised if I grunt at you for showing me a bug 5
- years from from now. Lastly, I did not write the sound drivers; I bought
- a sound package from Human Machine Interface (Eugene, Oregon). Since I
- don't have control over the sound system, I of course can't support bugs
- with the sound. Sorry.
-
- Lastly, Tom Bombadil's Software Emporium and House of Curiosities can't
- afford a lawyer. So if you decide to sue us, it won't be very profitable.
- We're in the business to feed us just enough to make the next game. Try
- suing someone who does have money, like Microsoft or Electronic Arts. I
- know for a fact that their products are far more buggy and likely to
- destroy lives than anything ever produced here.
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- SHAREWARE RULEZ! STOP THINKING, ADOPT CATCHY SLOGANS! ETCETERA!
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-
- Scott Biggs
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- Tom Bombadil's Software Emporium and House of Curiosities
- 4105 1/2 Duval Street
- Austin, TX 78751
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- hi@bombadil.com
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