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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 16-May-1998
-
- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: Space Empires III
- Version: 1.15
- Version Date: 18-May-1998
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
-
- Product Description: Space Empires III: Space Strategy Game v1.15
- Massive universe with custom ship design and
- AIs with unique personalities. Engage in
- Research, Intelligence Ops, Politics,
- Treaties, and Tactical or Strategic Combat.
- Special units such as mines, troops and
- fighters. Draw your own ship pictures!
- Customizable Game Setup. For Win95.
- Reason for version: Bug Fixes
-
- Category: Games; Strategy/simulation
- Keywords: Space Strategy Game Starship Windows
- Shareware
- Required Packages: SE3V115
- This Package: SE3V115
- Registration Fee: 25.00 (US)
-
- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80486)
- Clock Speed: 50 MHz
- Minimum OS: Windows 95
- Standard RAM: 8000K
- Hard Drive Space: 5K
- Required:
- Hard drive
- Video Graphics Array (VGA)
- Color monitor
- Keyboard
- Mouse
-
- Orders:
- Address: Altus Software
- 12244 So. Business Park Drive
- Suite 200
- Draper, UT 84042
- USA
- Toll-Free Phone: 888-282-5887
- Phone: 888-282-5887
- FAX: 801-530-7161
- Internet: altus@inquo.net
- Other E-mail: http://www.crl.com/~malfador
-
- Support:
- Address: Malfador Machinations
- PO Box 471885
- San Francisco, CA 94147-1885
- Phone: 415-281-9971
- Internet: malfador@crl.com
- Other E-mail: http://www.crl.com/~malfador
-
-
- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
-
- Space Empires III
- A space strategy game from Malfador Machinations
-
- This text file contains a full description of Space Empires III,
- how to install it, and troubleshooting information. If you have
- trouble installing or playing Space Empires III, look below.
-
- DESCRIPTION OF THE GAME:
-
- Space Empires III is a massive space strategy game for Windows 95.
- You control your empire in an ever changing and hostile galaxy.
- Design your starships and use them to explore new solar systems
- throughout the galaxy. Hundreds of different components to place on
- your ships and facilities to build on planets. Use fighters, troops,
- and mines to supplement your starships. Build your empire through
- research, intelligence operations, politics, treaties, and
- decisively planned strategy. Engage in Tactical or Strategic Combat
- throughout the galaxy. Up to 10 players either human or computer
- with multi-player support. Customize the graphics for your ships
- and download updates from our WEB site!
-
- $25 shareware.
- Requires Windows 95, 256 colors.
-
- Contact: malfador@crl.com
- http://www.crl.com/~malfador
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- Space Empires III is contained within a zip file. First you will
- need to unzip the package using PKUNZIP from DOS or WINZIP from
- Windows. Once the package has been decompressed, you can begin
- the installation program by running the file called "se3.exe".
- The installation program will guide you through all of the
- steps necessary to install Space Empires III. If you encounter
- any problems, please send a detailed report of your problems to
- malfador@crl.com.
-
-
- TROUBLESHOOTING:
-
- 1. Space Empires III will not install properly.
-
- The installation for Space Empires III requires
- at least 10 megabytes of free space. The game takes up 5
- megabytes, but the installer needs some extra space to
- work in. Once you have freed up that much space on your
- hard drive, reboot your machine. Make sure no other programs
- are running and try the installation program again. If this
- doesn't work, your download may be corrupted. Try redownloading.
-
- 2. Space Empires III crashes sometimes for no reason.
-
- Try the following:
- a. Stop all other running programs.
- b. Make sure you have at least 4 megabytes of free RAM.
- c. Under the File Menu select Machine Options, and turn sound
- off.
- d. Restart your computer fresh.
-
- 3. The windows in Space Empires III only take up a small portion
- of the main Tactical Window.
-
- From the main menu, select Windows/Arrange. Select the resolution
- you are currently running in (you can find this out by right-clicking
- on the desktop and selecting Properties, and looking at the Settings
- tab).
-
- 4. The Space Empires III screen colors are strange.
-
- Space Empires III must be run in at least 256 colors. You can
- find out what mode you are running in by right-clicking on the desktop
- and selecting Properties, and looking at the Settings tab. The Color
- Palette selection needs to be 256 Color or higher. (The game runs best
- in High Color 16-bit or better.)
-
- 5. When I switch to another window and then switch back to Space Empires
- III, the colors change.
-
- If you are running in 256 colors, then Windows has to adjust the palette
- for each program that is running. The other program you were looking at
- must have different colors than the ones used in Space Empires III. You
- can fix this problem by shutting down the other program. If the colors
- in Space Empires III are still strange, you should shut the game down
- and restart it. Also be sure to shutdown any other programs that are
- running.
-
- 6. I start the game but I can't figure out how to play.
-
- From the Starting Window, select the Tutorial. It will take you
- through a number of turns and introduce you to all of the windows
- you will be using.
-
- 7. I have questions that aren't answered in the help file.
-
- You can come and visit our WEB site which has a list of all of the
- latest questions that we've been asked. If you don't find it, then
- send us your question via email.
-
-
- Thanks for playing Space Empires III!
-
-
- ===== Packing List =====================================
-
- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
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- Filename Size Date Time CRC32
- READ_ME.1ST 171 16-May-1998 12:30p F9D97F00
- READ_ME.BAT 400 16-May-1998 12:30p 06F85893
- FILE_ID.DIZ 344 16-May-1998 12:30p 297745AC
- VENDOR.DOC 216 16-May-1998 12:30p 13796CEE
- SE3.EXE 1454080 16-May-1998 12:28p 9194B982
- DESC.SDI 56 16-May-1998 12:29p 14EEA9A5
- README.TXT 4086 5-Jan-1998 05:13p 00688670
- VENDOR.TXT 216 16-May-1998 12:30p 13796CEE
- SE3.W02 1376575 16-May-1998 12:28p 1CF6AF94
-
-
- ===== Installation =====================================
-
- Space Empires III is contained within a zip file. First you will
- need to unzip the package using PKUNZIP from DOS or WINZIP from
- Windows. Once the package has been decompressed, you can begin
- the installation program by running the file called "se3.exe".
- The installation program will guide you through all of the
- steps necessary to install Space Empires III. If you encounter
- any problems, please send a detailed report of your problems to
- malfador@crl.com.
-
-
-
- ===== Warranty =========================================
-
- SPACE EMPIRES III IS PROVIDED BY MALFADOR MACHINATIONS STRICTLY ON AN
- "AS IS" BASIS. MALFADOR MACHINATIONS MAKES NO EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OR RELIABILITY OF SPACE EMPIRES III
- FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
- MALFADOR MACHINATIONS DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT,
- INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM
- THE USE OR OPERATION OF SPACE EMPIRES III, OR FROM INABILITY TO USE
- SPACE EMPIRES III. THE USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK OF EVALUATING AND
- USING THE PROGRAM. THE SOLE LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED TO
- REPLACEMENT OF THE PRODUCT OR REFUND OF THE PURCHASE PRICE.
-
- THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
- IF ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE HELD TO BE INVALID OR
- UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY REASON, THE REMAINING PROVISIONS SHALL CONTINUE
- TO BE VALID AND ENFORCEABLE. IF A COURT FINDS THAT ANY PROVISION OF THIS
- AGREEMENT IS INVALID OR UNENFORCEABLE, BUT THAT BY LIMITING SUCH
- PROVISION IT WOULD BECOME VALID OR ENFORCEABLE, THEN SUCH PROVISION
- SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE WRITTEN, CONSTRUED, AND ENFORCED AS SO LIMITED.
-
-
- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
-
- COPYRIGHT. Space Empires III is NOT a public domain program.
- The Space Empires III software (including any and all images and
- text incorporated into Space Empires III) is owned by Malfador
- Machinations and protected by United States copyright law and
- international treaties. You may not make or use copies of Space
- Empires III except as expressly permitted under the Distribution
- and License provisions of this agreement. All other rights not
- expressly granted here are reserved by Malfador Machinations
- and its assigns or successors.
-
- You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile,
- disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the
- licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such
- unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic
- termination of this license.
-
- DISTRIBUTION. You are free to distribute Space Empires III as
- shareware to others, provided you distribute all original files
- without modification. No one may distribute any Space Empires III
- user authorization code to any other individual or group, with the
- sole exception that a valid owner of a registered license for Space
- Empires III may transfer that license and its user authorization
- code to another individual. When such a transfer is made, the
- original owner must transfer or destroy any copies of Space Empires
- III that use that authorization code.
-
- Permission to distribute the Space Empires III package is not
- transferable, assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor
- wishing to distribute the package must independently satisfy the
- terms of this limited distribution license.
-
- In addition, the accompanying VENDINFO data file (VENDINFO.DIZ in
- the installation package or DYNGIN.DIZ or DYNGIN32.DIZ in the
- directory where Space Empires III is installed) is hereby
- incorporated by reference. Any distribution satisfying all the
- distribution requirements expressed in that data record is
- hereby authorized.
-
- SHAREWARE EVALUATION LICENSE. Space Empires III is shareware.
- Before purchasing Space Empires III, you are entitled to use and
- evaluate one (1) copy of Space Empires III for free. You may use
- it as long as you wish.
-
- REGISTERED LICENSE. Upon purchase of Space Empires III, you
- receive a registered license and a unique user authorization code.
- The registered license gives you nonexclusive permission to make
- and load as many copies of major version 1.00 of Space Empires III
- or any of its minor version revisions on as many computers as you
- own, provided that no more than one of those copies of Space
- Empires III is ever in use at any one time.
-
- APPLICABILITY AND SEVERABILITY. This Agreement shall be governed
- by the laws of the State of California. If any provision of this
- Agreement shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any
- reason, the remaining provisions shall continue to be valid and
- enforceable. If a court finds that any provision of this Agreement
- is invalid or unenforceable, but that by limiting such provision
- it would become valid or enforceable, then such provision shall
- be deemed to be written, construed, and enforced as so limited.
-
- Malfador Machinations may revoke any permissions granted here, by
- notifying you in writing. All rights not expressly granted here are
- reserved to Malfador Machinations.
-
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