All important information (how to play, WHERE TO SEND THE SHAREWARE FEE, etc) is included in the stack. This is because 99% of you will download this Stuffit file, whiz through this Read Me document to see what The Purity Test is about, jam the stack into your HyperCard folder and then trash this file and the Stuffit file. By keeping the stack, you’re obligated to cough up $15. Considering the amount of time I spent creating and debugging this stack, I think that’s a really fair price. If you think it’s too much, then do this: From scratch, create a Purity Test stack of 1000 questions that is (as far as you know) completely idiot-proof and debugged. If you can do this, then send me your disk with your stack on it (if, that is, you think yours is better than mine) and you’ll be exempt from payment. If you can’t do it, then you owe me my fee.
For those of you who don’t have any intention of sending your hard earned cash (I’m only asking for about 1 1/2 hours worth of McDonald’s pay rates, and using this stack from beginning to end will run you at least six hours; thus, your cash isn’t THAT hard earned), you can still be a good sport. Format a 800K or 1,400K disk and pack it with stuff that you think I’d like and mail that to me. I’m a big fan of 8-bit color pictures (in just about any format), EPS clip art (Illustrator stuff, not something that was scanned and “converted” to EPS format), laser printer fonts (I LOVE LASER FONTS!) and *ANYTHING* done by Olivia De Berardinis (in any format - MacPaint, PixelPaint, TIFF, PICT...whatever). I also like USEFUL INITs and CDEVs, sound effects, games, etc. Anything. Doesn’t matter. Send it to me and you’ll be a cool dude. I’ll also probably send you a printed copy of all the questions in this Purity Test stack and mail it back to you (but you gotta send your return address, too). Cool deal, huh?
Final (?) note...If you have written your own Purity Test and would like to see it converted into one of my stacks, mail your test to me at the same address where you should also send your Shareware fee or your disk o’ stuff.
Legal stuff: This stack is SHAREWARE. This means that if you use the stack more than once (the original use is considered to be your trial run), you are obligated to pay me $10 or a disk with stuff on it as described above. This note applies to the person who received the software; If Joe Schmoe downloads it and uses it once, then loads it up for his girlfriend at a later time so she can play, that’s not considered two first-time uses. That’s one two-time use and that’s when you write a check (payable to Steve Godun) or send a disk. Also, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES is this stack to be sold commercially in any way, shape or form. The only exception is applied towards companies such as EduCorp, Software Excitement and Reasonable Solutions who make their business by selling disks of public domain and Shareware software for a moderate (very small) fee. This also applies to user groups. HOWEVER, this ONLY applies if the stack AND THIS READ ME FILE are included.
The address to send the fee/disk is on the opening card of the stack, but I will also include it here even though you probably stopped reading this about two paragraphs ago.
Steve Godun
Attn: Ultimate Purity Test 1.1
401 Crestwood Street
Piscataway, NJ 08854
By the way, just as I was getting ready to release this version of this stack, I received my FIRST and ONLY Shareware payment for the Purity Test and Ultimate Purity Test stacks from Jeff Schwarz of Oceanside, California. I would like to publicly thank him very much for his honesty, and hopefully present him as an example to the Shareware-using Macintosh community. Thank you, Jeff.
