The complete User's Manual is included within the game. Includes extensive indexed Help files for game play rules and instructions, game options, tips, hints and wit, and playing on the Internet. All are accessible from Spite's Help Menu.
Please visit Spite's Site to be sure you have the latest and greatest version, add-on Backpacks and news!
SPITE'S HOMEPAGE: www.spitenet.com or http://members.aol.com/spitegames
If you didn't download this file from Spite's site, stop by and check if you have the latest version. You can also add your name and email address to Spite's MessageBoard if you are looking for Internet players after you register.
If you have already installed S&M and find that you don't have the latest version, a patch can be downloaded from Spite's Site that will update your game.
This version includes 8 background graphics. You can download "Backpacks" from Spite's Site, which are free add-on packs of backgrounds for your game. The "Starter Backpack" contains 10 additional backgrounds that we believe are the best of the best for your enjoyment while playing Spite & Malice!
SpiteNET: SPITE & MALICE is designed for a minimum of 800x600 monitor resolution, however it will fit on 640x480 using number cards only. It looks best with 1024x768 resolution, and more than 256 colors (High Color - 16 bit recommended).
If you are low on memory (16 MB of RAM), use the plain green background. Image files take up memory, so if you find the screen redraws slowly, use the plain background instead of the picture backgrounds.
If the numbers on the cards or the S&M card logo letters look jagged, you may need Microsoft's FREE font smoothing patch for Win95. Information for downloading and updating your version of Win95 is available at Spite's Site, Technical Support page.
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Evaluation:
This Software is shareware. SpiteNET: SPITE & MALICE is not free or public domain software and is subject to copyright. The Software includes a disabling mechanism to prevent the use of the Software after the evaluation period (30 days) unless the appropriate registration code is entered. Your right to use any part of the Software after the expiration of the evaluation period is subject to your registrating as a user and the payment of the registration fee. You may make additional evaluation copies of the Software and distribute evaluation copies of the Software to others, providing that each copy is an exact copy.
Registration:
To register your copy please fill in and then print out the registration form using the Register option from Spite's Help Menu. Mail to the address on the registration form with $24.00 US dollars, check or money order. Foreign currency and foreign checks not accepted. Please visit Spite's Site if you wish to register and pay by credit card.
When the Software is improved upon you will be automatically informed by email. Free email technical support related to this software is available at Support@spitenet.com.
Disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability:
The Author does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations that the functions contained in the Software will meet your requirements or that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free. The Author intends that the Software will be used for entertainment purposes only.
The Software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or of any other type, whether express or implied.
The complete Licensing Agreement is included in the installation program.
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INSTALLATION:
The download file is in zipped format. If you are reading this, you have already begun the unzipping process! Some unzipping software will automatically run the setup/installation program for you. If not, unzip the files into a temporary directory and...
Run Setup.exe to install SpiteNET: Spite and Malice
It is advisable to reboot your system after installing, esp. for Win NT users.
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Uninstalling SpiteNET: Spite & Malice
The setup program used to install this software has added an application removal utility to the list of registered applications displayed in the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.
Use Add/Remove Programs from the Windows Control Panel to uninstall this application.
If you have added backgrounds, avatars, score files, etc., to your game, these will not be removed. After using the Windows application removal utility, you may safely delete the Spite directory (folder) with the remaining files that you have added.
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To print out the complete 28 page User's Manual:
From Spite's Help Menu, click on User's Manual. Click on the Contents button. Select the book icon for "SpiteNET: Spite & Malice User's Manual." Click on the print button at the bottom of the Help Topics window.
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SpiteNET: Spite & Malice V.5
(c)Copyright 1998, 1999 by Mari J. Perez S÷derberg
SpiteNET(R) is a Registered trademark
All rights reserved.
SpiteNET: Spite & Malice includes some image backgrounds which are copyrighted by Kevin Scofield, Charlotte, NC. Used with permission. For additional background images by Kevin Scofield, please visit Spite's Site. scofieldkp@aol.com
Spite's theme and other sounds were created for this software by Paul Bagin, PBProductions, New York. Used with permission. pbproductions@spitenet.com
Special thanks to Stephen Murphy for the QCard32.DLL.
Comments, questions and fan mail to Spite are greatly appreciated.
