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\ / Primordial Life -- Shareware v3.14 / \
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/\ Copyright (C) 1996 Jason Spofford \ /
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Thanks for trying Primordial Life! Your screen is transformed
into a artificial world where living biots can survive and multiply.
The course of evolution can take many paths, resulting in thousands
of biot shapes. Watch biots battle for survival. Don't be surprised
if you end up spending hours watching the dynamics of evolution!
>>> Please Note: Primordial Life 3.14 will not connect to, or <<<<
>>> accept connections from Primordial Life 3.13 or earlier. <<<<
*** What is Primordial Life? ***
Primordial Life is actually two programs. One program
runs Primordial Life as a screen saver and the other runs
Primordial Life inside a window on your Windows 95 or
Windows NT computer.
A help file included with Primordial Life which explains the
simulation in depth. Just run Primordial Life and select help.
*** What is new in Primordial 3.1? ***
Primordial Life 3.1 brings networking to biot worlds. Now you can
connect biot worlds together over a TCP/IP network. With a 32 bit
TCP/IP stack, you can connect your world to up to 4 others. There
is no limit to the number of worlds you can interconnect! Watch as
the diversity of life increases as you expand the known biot universe.
Primordial Life 3.1 also attempted to fix some video related
problems seen in 3.0. Note that the Diamond Stealth may still
leave trails. I must conclude that the Diamond Stealth drivers
are buggy when drawing from the context of a thread. If you have a
Diamond Stealth, give it a try anyway. If it doesn't work for you,
you can revert to the drivers Microsoft wrote for the Diamond Stealth
on your Windows 95 CD.
If you are a dial up user, I don't recommend using the network feature
in the screen saver. Run the windowed program instead. When the
screen saver starts, it might envoke the dialup dialog which will
cause the screen saver to terminate immediately. If you dial up prior
to using the screen saver, it should work for you.
*** Primordial Life Installation Instructions ***
Prim31.exe is a self extracting file. Chances are you already
have installed this program since you are reading this file.
Prim31.exe will install the Windows program and related files
into the directory of your choice. It will also install the
screen saver (Primordial Life 3.1.scr) into the \Windows\System
or on NT, the \Winnt\System32 directory.
The installation program does not add the program to your start
menu. If you'd like to do that, just go to Start->Settings->Taskbar
menu and add it to the menu of your choice.
If you are running Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0, the installation
program will copy a shortcut icon to your desktop.
*** Shareware Notice ***
Primordial Life is shareware. If you like it, please register. If you
decide to register, press the "I want to buy it!" button found by pressing
the "Register!" button on the Primordial Life settings dialog. It will start
register.exe which will provide details on how to purchase Primordial Life.
Primordial Life is now registered to you and not to a specific machine.
That means you will be able to move Primordial Life from one computer to
another or upgrade your computer without worrying if your Primordial Life
registration will still work.
*** Disclaimer of Warranty ***
To use this software, you are must agree with the following terms.
THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND
WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY
OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. Because of the
various hardware and software environments into which the software
may be put into and because it is possible that software itself
contains software defects, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE IS OFFERED. Should any problem with the software be found,
the seller is not required to inform the purchaser, even if it the
problem is damaging. The user assumes the entire risk of using
this program. ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED
EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE.
*** Registration ***
If you'd like Primordial Life to continue to evolve, please register.
There are several ways to pay for Primordial Life. Through an
Internet based shareware fee collection company, I can accept credit cards,
as well as other forms of payment. Included in this distribution is a
program called "register.exe". Run that program for more details and
see http://www.kagi.com to learn about the shareware fee collection company.
Soon you will be able to order on-line by going to my web site at
http://www.io.com/~spofford
Primordial Life is just $12.00 for a single user, single computer license.
If you own or operate more than one computer, you can get a license for
2-4 computers for $18. Please note that you must be the primary
user of each of these computers or the computer must reside in your primary
residence. The next version I produce will be yours free.
To upgrade to a single user, 2-4 computer license from Primordial Life 2.0,
3.0 or 3.1 costs $8.
A site license lets multiple people run Primordial Life that belong to a
particular organization at a specific site (~50 mile radius). That license
costs $60. A world-wide license lets multiple people run Primordial Life
that belong to a particular organization at any site. That license costs $120.
NOTE: If you'd like to receive a *diskette* with Primordial Life, please
indicate that in your comments. Otherwise I will assume that Internet
delivery is acceptable.
*** If you have any questions or comments ***
You can reach me at:
Jason Spofford
11040 Crossland Drive
Austin, Texas 78726
email: spofford@io.com
You can visit my web page at:
HTTP://www.io.com/~spofford