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Program Info
for WORLD29 V2.9D
I charge $15 for a fully preregistered copy. You can save $5 by
providing me with a disk - this is the same as registering a copy you get
from a shareware distributor or BBS ($10). The advantage is that you save the
duplication fee or download fees, and you are dealing directly with the
author and avoiding any possibility of a virus.
I will never get rich with this program! My goal is to provide useful
and educational software at a very reasonable price.
You should know that shareware authors do not get paid by
distributors. If you paid someone for this program you were actually paying
for a service and a disk - NOT the PROGRAM that came on the disk.
I charge $15 for my programs. The $15 includes the $10 registration
fee and $5 for the disk, mailer, postage, and the hassle of sending my wife
to the post office (I physically can not go to the post office).
Shareware is a strange business. If you manage to find a copy of
one of my programs you can register it for $10. By registering the program
you are paying for the right to use the program and also, in the case of my
programs, you will be eligible for an update to the latest for free. Whenever
you want your first update you just send me a disk. I put the latest edition
on your disk and send it back in the next mail. After the first update you
can continue to update, as long as I keep making improvements, a $5 handling
fee as specified above.
If you don't want to bother with finding a mailer and a disk you
just add $5 and I'll supply the disk, mailer, and postage!
I have created other programs and will send registered users a flyer
showing what they are. Again, if you supply the disk, the programs only cost
$10. By dealing directly with the author you avoid any problems with
middlemen.
The remainder of this file is essentially what I have been saying for years.
System requirements:Graphics board (CGA/EGA) and lots of memory.
This program was written and compiled using Microsoft QUICK Basic
ver 3.00 under DOS 5.0 as an exercise in what can be done with BASIC.
It was originally written on a ARC 286 with 40meg hard disk, 1meg memory, and
EGA. It has been tested on a Columbia MPC-IV and an AMIGA with Bridge-Card.
I guarantee nothing!! This project was started many years ago to see
what could be done in BASIC (the only language I know much about). I
soon found that basic is just too slow to handle the data required.
Out of the hundreds of people who have downloaded the program around
the world a few have provided financial encouragement and suggestions
which are implemented in version 2.x. The only thingI haven't done is
provided the program without my database.( I worked too hard to have
that cut out). Most of the Database is avialble on COMPUSERVE as my file
WORLDDB.ARC in Lib 7 of IBMAPP forum.
The list of capitals is as accurate as I can get from a standard atlas. Some
errors have been generated by eyeball interpolation and weariness. If you
don't like something don't stew about it, send me a letter of complaint!! I
will correct as much as possible.
If I feel good and get some complaints I can handle I will put an update
on COMPUSERVE at some time in the future. My updates are a function of
how my MS is affecting me, changes in the WORLD situation, and how much
support users have supplied ($$$).
To start a new year's 'traks' simply rename traks to traksyy where yy
is the year.
send comments to:
Robert Lloyd
191 Via De La Reina
Merritt Island, FL 32953
COMPUSERVE 70635,266
I would like to thank those who have sent comments (and especially those who
sent money) based on earlier versions of WORLD. Many of the changes are a
result of suggestions from users. Some suggestions were not practical. My
Data Base is too crude.
No the Data points were not generated by THE FORCE I strained my eyeballs
to create it. It is not available as a separate file and not available for
commercial use.