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 25
  (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")

REGISTERING ONLINE

It is also possible to pay for F1GP-Ed online using your credit card.
See the F1GP-Ed web site (http://www.nanunanu.org/~oliver/F1GP-Ed/) for
full details and instructions.