README.MAZ FILE for MAZEMAKER (tm) Version 2.01 Copyright (c) 1992 by Custom Real-Time Software, Inc. (CRTS) All Rights Reserved INTRODUCTION MAZEMAKER is a game for Microsoft Windows(tm) Version 3.0 or higher. You can probably guess that it is a maze game. The intent of the game is to present you with the sort of challenges that a laboratory mouse faces rather than those of an Adventure style game. Thus MAZEMAKER mazes look more like the ones you might find in a puzzle book; but with some important differences. All but the easiest mazes are three dimensional! And it is nearly impossible to work a maze from the end. MAZEMAKER mazes are also more complicated. When MAZEMAKER is started it generates the "Maze of the Day." If, at first, you find the Maze of the Day too difficult try the "EASY Maze of the Day" until you get the hang of it. If you want to be shown how to attempt a maze, select DEMO from the GAME menu. After you solve the Maze of the Day, you become eligible to attempt the "Maze of the Week." When you solve this you can try the "Maze of the Month" and ultimately the "Maze of the Year!" There are other mazes and options too. You can probably figure them out by exploring the menu options. If not, or if you want more information, look at the text file MAZEMAKR.HLP. (This file may also be viewed while running MAZEMAKER by selecting HELP.) DISCLAIMER MAZEMAKER is supplied as is. CRTS disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. CRTS assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of MAZEMAKER. MAZEMAKER IS SHAREWARE MAZEMAKER is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to you for your evaluation. This is a complete program. None of its features is disabled. But MAZEMAKER is NOT free. If you wish to continue using it you are required to pay a registration fee. Remember: If you want to be Attorney General someday (or even if you don't) that it is against the law to use this program except as authorized by its copyright owner. OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT CRTS is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. TEMPORARY LICENSE You are granted a temporary license to install and use MAZEMAKER for evalu- tion purposes. This license expires 21 days after you first use the game. REGISTRATION If you find MAZEMAKER entertaining and wish to continue playing beyond the evaluation period, you must make a registration payment of $15 to CRTS. Upon receipt of the fee CRTS will send you a registered copy of MAZEMAKER which includes a license that permits its unlimited use by one person on one computer at a time. Registered users can submit their records to the MAZEMAKER National Registry and those that have solved the Maze of the Year! are eligible to win MAZEMAKER tee-shirts. A printed copy of the file ORDER.MAZ should be filled out and accompany the $15 registration fee. Network and Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting CRTS. SUPPORT If you encounter a problem while running MAZEMAKER (not including frustration!), please contact CRTS. We will endeavor to provide assistance to help solve your problem. If you are writing, be sure to describe your Windows environment (DOS and Windows version numbers, processor type, memory, video configuration, other applications that are running, autoexec.bat, config.sys, and system.ini files; and anything else you think might be relevant.) as well as the anomaly exhibited by MAZEMAKER. Registered users who are not satisfied with our response, FOR ANY REASON, and who return their ORIGINAL MAZEMAKER Program Disk to CRTS within six months from the date they registered, will have their registration fee refunded in full. COPYING AND REDISTRIBUTING You are permitted and encouraged to provide free copies of MAZEMAKER to anyone you choose. The only requirement in this regard is that ALL of the files listed below, or their compressed equivalent, must be included unmodified in any copy you make. You may not charge any fee except as provided below. Anyone distributing MAZEMAKER for any kind of remuneration must first contact CRTS at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering MAZEMAKER immediately. CONTACTING CRTS Our address is: PO Box 1106, West Caldwell, NJ, 07007-1106. Our phone number is: (201) 228-7623. Our CompuServe ID is: 72467,1255. MAZEMAKER FILES The following files are supplied with MAZEMAKER: 1) MAZEMAKR.EXE A Windows 3.0+ executable file; 2) MAZEMAKR.DAT A file with setup information, stock maze descriptions, and eventually data about mazes you have worked on; 3) MAZEMAKR.HLP An ASCII file with information about MAZEMAKER. 4) SETUP.EXE A Windows 3.0+ program which automates installation of MAZEMAKER onto your system; 5) SETUP.INF An information file used by the installation program that tells it what must be done; 6) METER.DLL A Dynamic Link Library required by the installation program; 7) ORDER.MAZ A form that should accompany your registration fee; 8) README.MAZ This file; 9) VENDOR.DOC Information file for Shareware Vendors; 10) FILE_ID.DIZ A "Description In Zip" file primarily for BBS use. INSTALLATION YOU MUST READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS ENTIRE FILE BEFORE INSTALLING MAZEMAKER! ========================================================================== Place a disk with the MAZEMAKER files in the "A" drive. From the Windows Program Manager, select File - Run, type "A:SETUP " and then follow directions. Note: If you cannot use the "A" drive, you may use the "B" drive or any other DOS Path. Just be sure to indicate the correct path when you tell the Program Manager what you want to "run." If you take all the installation default, files <1>, <2> and <3> above will be copied to the directory C:\GAMES. (This directory will be created if it does not exist, or you can specify some other new or existing directory.) The MAZEMAKER Icon will be added to the GAMES Group that already exists on most Windows platforms. (The GAMES Group will be created if, by some miracle, it does not exist.) ENJOY !!! AND THANK YOU FOR TRYING MAZEMAKER !!!