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VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 1-Jul-1997
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: WALL $TREET RAIDER THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER GAME/SIMULATION
Version: 6.1
Version Date: 1-Jul-1997
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
Product Description: WALL $TREET RAIDER v6.1 <ASP>--The corporate
takeover game and simulation -- the ultimate
in gritty realism. Simulates a "real-time"
stock market, with constantly moving stock
ticker, financial news headlines, as you
attempt to react to ever-changing economic
model. Invest in any of 250 companies (IBM,
GM, etc.) in 36 industries. 1 to 4 players,
or play against computer. Unique, exciting
interface!
Reason for version: REDUCED REGISTRATION FEE, IF DOWNLOADED FROM
THE WEB
Category: Games; Strategy/simulation
Keywords: GAMES, STOCK MARKET, SIMULATIONS
Required Packages: WSR6_1
This Package: WSR6_1
Registration Fee: 7.95-25.00
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 8086/8088)
Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.0
Standard RAM: 640K
Hard Drive Space: 1000K
Required:
Keyboard
Won't Work With:
CD-ROM drive
Orders:
Address: Ronin Software
3020 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road
Suite 36
Issaquah, WA 98029
Phone: 425/391-4036
AmOnLine: MDJENK
Internet: mdjenk@aol.com
Support:
Address: Ronin Software
3020 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road
Suite 36
Issaquah, WA 98029
Phone: 425/391-4036
AmOnLine: mdjenk
Internet: mdjenk@aol.com
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
WALL $TREET RAIDER, RELEASE 6.1, WELCOMES YOU TO THE CORPORATE WARS!
Law schools and business schools that have site-licensed this unique
financial stock market simulation tell us that their students not only
love playing it, but that it is also the most sophisticated business/
stock market simulation in existence.
Wall $treet Raider is a financial strategy game. An extraordinarily
realistic, "real-time" corporate financial simulation, in which 1 to 4
players (one of whom can be the computer) engage in high-stakes games of
financial empire-building and corporate takeovers. You can emulate a
Carl Icahn or a T. Boone Pickens, using the same tools and techniques as
the real corporate raiders who lurk in the Wall Street financial jungle
of today. These include: junk-bond financed hostile takeovers,
mergers, LBO's, "greenmail," insider trading opportunities, anti-trust
lawsuits against competitors, manipulating corporate earnings, stock-
for-stock mergers, tax avoidance, firing managements, restructuring,
liquidating assets or corporations, seeking to increase market share,
trade stocks and bonds, public offerings, tender offers, and much more.
The action is continuous, with a constantly moving "live" stock ticker
and scrolling teletype "broad tape" of earnings reports and financial/
economic news, full of constant surprises, disasters, and occasional
good news, all of which will tend to give you sweaty palms, as you seek
to adapt and profit from the changing financial world.
The simulation includes 250 companies (IBM, Toyota, Microsoft, etc.)
in 36 industry groups, all of which operate in a "smart," constantly
changing and ruthlessly competitive financial environment. The only
limits on your accumulation of vast wealth in RAIDER are your own
creativity, financial wizardry (which you'll improve), and ability to
finagle within (or around) the SEC, IRS, and antitrust law rules built
into Wall $treet Raider.
Let the corporate wars begin!
v 6.1 FEATURES
==============
This Release 6.1 allows provides, at no registration cost, access to
"cheat mode," without your having to register and obtain a "cheat code.",
Cheat Mode includes a full "Cheat Menu" of dirty tricks and other nice
features, such as the ability to change the name of any company during
a game. Cheat Mode also causes a wide range of "ethical choice
scenarios" to pop up randomly, from time to time, when you control one
or more corporations.
... Plus other features and enhancements requested by users.
The registered version of Raider may now be obtained by downloading from
atOnce Software's Download Stores on AOL, Compuserve, and the Internet,
for a reduced price of $7.95, and you can pay atOnce on-line by credit
card, and obtain the registered version of the program instantly!
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
Filename Size Date Time CRC32
READ_ME.1ST 171 1-Jan-1997 12:00p F9D97F00
READ_ME.BAT 438 30-Jun-1997 02:21a 15C64E2E
WSR.BAT 51 4-Feb-1997 02:41p 5E2AD696
BADNEWS.DAT 14589 31-Jan-1997 02:50a D0F691D9
GAMEHIGH.DAT 55 1-Jan-1997 12:00p 350CB8E0
MISCNEWS.DAT 64438 5-Feb-1997 12:34a CD90AC3D
SCENTXT1.DAT 39090 28-Jan-1997 11:34p CC5DC5CA
SCENTXT2.DAT 39360 1-Jan-1997 12:00p EE57A785
SCENTXT3.DAT 45852 24-Apr-1997 12:43a 2A83B623
FILE_ID.DIZ 421 30-Jun-1997 02:20a 32B5A406
CHEAT.EXE 64259 31-Jan-1997 02:54p 5B688158
DIAGRAM.EXE 31347 1-Jan-1997 12:00p F0EDE089
FUTURE.EXE 32243 30-Jan-1997 01:39p 1A83EA38
HELPFILE.EXE 66515 28-Jan-1997 02:08a C0293F8C
MAILGAME.EXE 30249 25-Apr-1997 12:40a E8DFBB1D
MAINMENU.EXE 311998 24-Jun-1997 06:07p 107C5BA1
NEWYEAR.EXE 82000 1-Jan-1997 12:00p FF331E0B
RAIDER.EXE 161986 1-Jul-1997 01:23a DC3294B9
SCEN.EXE 36899 30-Jun-1997 10:55p 50174541
SUBSID1.EXE 43395 23-Jan-1997 01:56p 0B8E1B8E
UNINSTAL.EXE 30979 23-Jan-1997 01:56p 38DF63EE
VENDOR.ID 14 1-Jul-1997 01:08a 2F37EFB7
README.TOO 2419 30-Jun-1997 02:33a 0F1D4CB8
REGISTER.TXT 3795 30-Jun-1997 02:32a 298159C4
USERINFO.TXT 58926 28-Jun-1997 05:44p 84A8388F
VENDOR.TXT 216 1-Jan-1997 12:00p 13796CEE
===== Installation =====================================
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALL $TREET RAIDER:
1. For the .ZIP file version (this version), simply copy the
compressed file WSR6_1.ZIP into a directory on your hard
disk (preferably with the directory name \WSR) and use
PKUNZIP 2.04 or higher to "unzip" the files. Once they
have been unzipped, simply type "RAIDER" or "WSR" to start
the program. It will ask you a few simple questions, such
as your name and whether you have a color monitor, and
then create its configuration files the first time you
run it.
2. For shareware distributors who wish to obtain a self-extracting
version of the program with automated INSTALL.EXE program,
for diskette distributrion of WALL $TREET RAIDER, contact
Ronin Software to request a copy of the (LHA-compressed) self-
extracting version and our INSTALL.EXE and instruction files
for users, so you can provide your customers with a self-
installing version of the program.
----- NOW YOU CAN DOWNLOAD REGISTERED VERSION FROM THE INTERNET!
For only $7.95 (regular registration price is $25, if ordered from the
publisher), you can now download the latest registered version of
the program from any of the atOnce Software download stores on AOL,
Compuserver, or the Internet, and you can pay by credit card, on-line,
for maximum convenience. To download from the Web, go to:
http://www.atonce.com/pages/ga-door.htm
----- LATEST SHAREWARE VERSION -- DOWNLOADS
To see if there is a shareware version released since this
version, if you have Internet access, go to the ZDNET Web
site to download the current release, at the following URL:
http://www.zdnet.com
----- PRODUCT REVIEWS OF WALL $TREET RAIDER ------------------
WALL $TREET RAIDER has received uniformly excellent reviews from the
press. Here's what some leading computer publications have had to say
about this unique corporate takeover/stock market game or simulation
program:
JERRY POURNELLE, WRITING IN INFOWORLD:
"Most computer games are just fun, of course, but there's an
interesting trend toward simulations -- like Wall Street Raider
-- that can actually teach you something about the real world....
I expect to see a lot more of this kind of game."
BYTE MAGAZINE:
"They're [computer games] getting pretty good. Some, like Wall
Street Raider, are educational to boot: Raider is a detailed
simulation of corporate finance.... [Y]ou can really learn
something about stocks, mergers, takeovers, and the general
world of finance, and HAVE A WHACKING GOOD TIME IN THE BARGAIN."
SHAREWARE MAGAZINE:
"Here's your chance to see how well you can do in the world of
empire building and corporate takeovers--all without risking a
dime. In the process of fooling around with this `real time'
financial simulation program, you're going to learn quite a bit,
too....From the first minute you start working with this program,
you're learning facts, figures, and strategies which are `at play'
out there in the real world of finance. Players who get enough
money (`capital') can easily take over one or more companies.
Watch out when you do that, because the program then `hands over'
all financial responsibility (and problems) of each company you
acquire....
"Keep in mind, however, that in addition to your financial resources
(and any imaginative approaches you might take) you must deal with
`real world' situations which include taxes, antitrust rules and
regulations, and the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). This
`game' doesn't let you get away with much, except money if you do
happen to `win.'
"Time passes quickly in Wall $treet Raider with a calendar quarter
`ticking off' in less than five minutes. You'll need to do your
research and carefully calculate your moves because a lot is at
stake here. If you decide to play agains the computer, be ready
for one of the most savvy, shrewd, and ruthless players you'll
ever encounter."
MORE COMMENTS, FROM SOME REGISTERED USERS OF WALL $TREET RAIDER:
"I am very interested in your WSR game. I downloaded it a few days
ago from the Internet and can't stop playing it. I have sitting
beside me a Sony Playstation, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Super Nintendo,
and Sega Genesis and can't play them because I'm too busy with your
game." -- Student, Univ. of Arkansas
"This is the best game I've ever played!" -- Stockbroker with
Bear, Stearns & Co., Pittsburgh
"Your program is a real hit with my students." -- Law professor,
University of Missouri Law School
"I've been playing Wall Street Raider, in my spare time,
for the past three months. The program is brilliant --
all the more so for how accurately it emulates what
goes on in the real world. The exception being your
sense of humor, which permeates so many otherwise
serious incidents and makes the game very user friendly.
...I'm enthralled by the program and completely obsessed
when I'm using it. My perspective on corporate strategy
and financial markets will never be the same again."
-- User in Belize, Central America
"Great game! Superbly educational! A work of art! Thanks
for share-waring it." -- User, SeaTac, Washington
"Here is my registration fee for your highly enjoyable
`Wall Street Raider'. I have found that it is an
excellent way to work off some aggression after a hard
day on the job." - User, Moline, Illinois
"Your game is very popular at our company. No one here gets
much work completed in these offices since we have commenced
with playing the Wall Street Raider. All it misses is the
false `spreadsheet' screen for when the boss is there.
Please send me your strategy manual, `Take No Prisoners.'"
-- Executive, Brussels, Belgium
===== Warranty =========================================
WALL $TREET RAIDER (tm) LIMITED PRODUCT WARRANTY:
Ronin Software specifically disclaims all warranties, express or
implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to
the programs and data files that make up the Wall $treet Raider
software product. Ronin Software shall have no liability with respect
to any loss or damage directly or indirectly arising out of the use of
the program or any portion thereof. Without limiting the foregoing,
Ronin Software shall not be liable for any loss of profit, interruption
of business, damage to equipment or data, interruption of operations or
any other commercial damage, including but not limited to direct,
indirect, special, incidental, consequential or other damages.
===== License for Use and Distribution =================
LICENSE FOR USE (END USER): Wall $treet Raider is a copyrighted
software program. This shareware version may be used by an end user on
a single computer system for 30 days. Any continued use after 30 days
without registering the program is a violation of this limited license
and constitutes an infringement of the publisher's copyright under the
Federal copyright laws.
DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (DISTRIBUTORS): Ronin Software wishes to grant
distributors of the shareware version of Wall $treet Raider
considerable flexibility in distributing this software program.
The attached VENDINFO data record is hereby incorporated by reference.
Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed
in that data record is hereby authorized.
Copyright (C) 1997 Ronin Software and Michael D. Jenkins,
All Rights Reserved
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