F1GP-Ed Documentation |
F1GP-Ed is SHAREWARE, which means you are expected to register if you find it useful. Look at it this way, could you live without F1GP-Ed and go back to playing with slow cars and 1991 colour schemes? I rest my case :-) I do hope you'll register - literally thousands of hours have been spent on developing F1GP-Ed! LIMITATIONS OF THE UNREGISTERED VERSION A requester will appear whenever you start and exit F1GP-Ed, reminding you that you should register. Also, some of the features are disabled including: * Palette, car setup and lap record editors * Some of the memory patches * All of the "Other" windows (i.e. sound, graphics, backdrops, stats and the calculator) * Saving to / loading from memory The absence of these features doesn't make F1GP-Ed unusable! Most features that I will add in future versions will also be disabled. WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU REGISTER You will be shipped a disk by First Class / Air mail. The latest version of F1GP-Ed will be on this disk, along with your personal keyfile which will enable all the features (and remove annoying requesters) in this and future versions of F1GP-Ed. If there's any space left on the disk, I'll fill it with some other F1GP related information / programs. You are not allowed to give, lend or sell the keyfile to anybody else! If you'd also like me to e-mail your keyfile to you, please e-mail your PGP public key to me. I won't send key files through e-mail without encrypting them using PGP. Users who specify an e-mail address have the option of receiving free F1GP-Ed/F1GP news including notification of when new versions are released and where they are available from. Also, I can e-mail new releases to you automaticaly a few minutes after release via a MIME encoded LZX archive - these messages can be quite large and can not be accepted by all e-mail systems. I regret that I no longer have the time or resources to automatically send updates and notification to users by conventional mail (there are over 1000 registered users!), although I hope that this my be possible in the future. See my update policy. HOW TO REGISTER To register, you simply have to send me a completed registration form (or the relevant details written down on paper if you don't have a printer) and a registration fee. Note that the amounts specified below are minimums, so feel free to send me more if you think F1GP-Ed is worth more :-) United Kingdom Registration direct from me costs 6 pounds. Payments by cheque, postal order or cash are acceptable. If you send any coins please make sure they wrapped up or sellotaped to a piece of card so they can't move around freely, otherwise there is a high risk that the coins won't reach me. Rest of the World Registration direct from me costs 7 pounds sterling. If possible this should be sent to me in cash, or a cheque (drawn on a UK bank) and the amount MUST be in pounds sterling. Eurocheques are also acceptable. As a last resort I will accept a registration fee of US$ 15 or DEM 20 (German marks) in notes. Please note: it is no longer possible to register F1GP-Ed through F1 Licenceware's Shareware scheme. Send the registration fee (cheques payable to Oliver Roberts) and a completed registration form to me at the following address: Oliver Roberts 30 Tillett Road Norwich NR3 4BJ ENGLAND (Note: the above is "thirty" Tillett Road and NOT "thirty-eight")