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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 5-Nov-1995
-
- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: WALL $TREET RAIDER THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER GAME/SIMULATOR
- Version: 5.2
- Version Date: 25-Oct-1995
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
-
- Product Description: WALL $TREET RAIDER v5.2 <ASP>--The corporate
- takeover game and simulation -- the ultimate
- in gritty realism. Simulates a "real-time"
- stock market, with constantly moving stock
- ticker, financial news headlines, as you
- attempt to react to ever-changing economic
- model. Invest in any of 250 companies (IBM,
- GM, etc.) in 36 industries. 1 to 4 players,
- or play against computer. Unique, exciting
- interface!
- Reason for version: EXPANDED VERSION WITH NEW CHEAT MODE FEATURES
- & SCENARIOS
-
- Category: Games; Strategy/simulation
- Keywords: GAMES, STOCK MARKET, SIMULATIONS
- Required Packages: WSR5_2
- This Package: WSR5_2
- Registration Fee: 10.00-45.00
-
- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 8086/8088)
- Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.0
- Standard RAM: 640K
- Hard Drive Space: 1000K
- Required:
- Keyboard
- Won't Work With:
- CD-ROM drive
-
- Orders:
- Address: Ronin Software
- 3020 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road
- Suite 36
- Issaquah, WA 98029
- Phone: 206/391-4036
- AmOnLine: MDJENK
- Internet: mdjenk@aol.com
-
- Support:
- Address: Ronin Software
- 3020 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road
- Suite 36
- Issaquah, WA 98029
- Phone: 206/391-4036
-
-
- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
-
- WALL $TREET RAIDER, RELEASE 5.2, WELCOMES YOU TO THE CORPORATE WARS!
-
- Law schools and business schools that have site-licensed this unique
- financial stock market simulation tell us that their students not only
- love playing it, but that it is also the most sophisticated business/
- stock market simulation in existence.
-
- Wall $treet Raider is a financial strategy game. An extraordinarily
- realistic, "real-time" corporate financial simulation, in which 1 to 4
- players (one of whom can be the computer) engage in high-stakes games of
- financial empire-building and corporate takeovers. You can emulate a
- Carl Icahn or a T. Boone Pickens, using the same tools and techniques as
- the real corporate raiders who lurk in the Wall Street financial jungle
- of today. These include: junk-bond financed hostile takeovers,
- mergers, LBO's, "greenmail," insider trading opportunities, anti-trust
- lawsuits against competitors, manipulating corporate earnings, stock-
- for-stock mergers, tax avoidance, firing managements, restructuring,
- liquidating assets or corporations, seeking to increase market share,
- trade stocks and bonds, public offerings, tender offers, and much more.
-
- The action is continuous, with a constantly moving "live" stock ticker
- and scrolling teletype "broad tape" of earnings reports and financial/
- economic news, full of constant surprises, disasters, and occasional
- good news, all of which will tend to give you sweaty palms, as you seek
- to adapt and profit from the changing financial world.
-
- The simulation includes 250 companies (IBM, Toyota, Microsoft, etc.)
- in 36 industry groups, all of which operate in a "smart," constantly
- changing and ruthlessly competitive financial environment. The only
- limits on your accumulation of vast wealth in RAIDER are your own
- creativity, financial wizardry (which you'll improve), and ability to
- finagle within (or around) the SEC, IRS, and antitrust law rules built
- into Wall $treet Raider.
-
- Let the corporate wars begin!
-
-
- ===== Packing List =====================================
-
- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
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- Filename Size Date Time CRC32
- READ_ME.1ST 171 5-Nov-1995 12:00p F9D97F00
- READ_ME.BAT 439 5-Nov-1995 12:00p B0FBF628
- WSR.BAT 51 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 5E2AD696
- BADNEWS.DAT 14560 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 43FA05E4
- MISCNEWS.DAT 50616 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 7BA8EA12
- SCENTXT1.DAT 39089 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 8D753B07
- SCENTXT2.DAT 39332 5-Nov-1995 12:00p FDD4F5D5
- SCENTXT3.DAT 39048 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 0826FD74
- FILE_ID.DIZ 421 5-Nov-1995 12:00p E9C990FE
- REGISTER.DOC 3189 5-Nov-1995 12:00p E7948DBA
- SYSOP.DOC 10240 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 4A408549
- USERINFO.DOC 62161 5-Nov-1995 12:00p B88E81A4
- VENDOR.DOC 8576 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 08F5C516
- CHEAT.EXE 63011 5-Nov-1995 12:00p D5242FF8
- DIAGRAM.EXE 31347 5-Nov-1995 12:00p F0EDE089
- FUTURE.EXE 32147 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 5A9B1734
- HELPFILE.EXE 63907 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 4E1905E5
- MAINMENU.EXE 307857 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 41425DAA
- NEWYEAR.EXE 81968 5-Nov-1995 12:00p A6B3FC0D
- RAIDER.EXE 159131 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 9FA88A54
- SCEN.EXE 38435 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 706C87AA
- SUBSID1.EXE 43475 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 5B48C518
- UNINSTAL.EXE 30883 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 8C699285
- VENDOR.ID 10 5-Nov-1995 09:03p 0C3417CB
- README.TOO 998 5-Nov-1995 12:00p E0CF19F9
- VENDOR.TXT 216 5-Nov-1995 12:00p 13796CEE
-
-
- ===== Installation =====================================
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALL $TREET RAIDER:
-
- 1. For the .ZIP file version (this version), simply copy the
- compressed file WSR5_2.ZIP into a directory on your hard
- disk (preferably with the directory name \WSR) and use
- PKUNZIP 2.04 or higher to "unzip" the files. Once they
- have been unzipped, simply type "RAIDER" or "WSR" to start
- the program. It will ask you a few simple questions, such
- as your name and whether you have a color monitor, and
- then create its configuration files the first time you
- run it.
-
- 2. For shareware distributors who wish to obtain a self-extracting
- version of the program with automated INSTALL.EXE program,
- for diskette distributrion of WALL $TREET RAIDER, contact
- Ronin Software to request a copy of the (LHA-compressed) self-
- extracting version and our INSTALL.EXE and instruction files
- for users, so you can provide your customers with a self-
- installing version of the program.
-
-
-
-
- ----- PRODUCT REVIEWS OF WALL $TREET RAIDER ------------------
-
- WALL $TREET RAIDER has received uniformly excellent reviews from the
- press. Here's what some leading computer publications have had to say
- about this unique corporate takeover/stock market game or simulation
- program:
-
- JERRY POURNELLE, WRITING IN INFOWORLD:
-
- "Most computer games are just fun, of course, but there's an
- interesting trend toward simulations -- like Wall Street Raider
- -- that can actually teach you something about the real world....
- I expect to see a lot more of this kind of game."
-
-
- BYTE MAGAZINE:
-
- "They're [computer games] getting pretty good. Some, like Wall
- Street Raider, are educational to boot: Raider is a detailed
- simulation of corporate finance.... [Y]ou can really learn
- something about stocks, mergers, takeovers, and the general
- world of finance, and HAVE A WHACKING GOOD TIME IN THE BARGAIN."
-
-
- SHAREWARE MAGAZINE:
-
- "Here's your chance to see how well you can do in the world of
- empire building and corporate takeovers--all without risking a
- dime. In the process of fooling around with this `real time'
- financial simulation program, you're going to learn quite a bit,
- too....From the first minute you start working with this program,
- you're learning facts, figures, and strategies which are `at play'
- out there in the real world of finance. Players who get enough
- money (`capital') can easily take over one or more companies.
- Watch out when you do that, because the program then `hands over'
- all financial responsibility (and problems) of each company you
- acquire....
-
- "Keep in mind, however, that in addition to your financial resources
- (and any imaginative approaches you might take) you must deal with
- `real world' situations which include taxes, antitrust rules and
- regulations, and the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). This
- `game' doesn't let you get away with much, except money if you do
- happen to `win.'
-
- "Time passes quickly in Wall $treet Raider with a calendar quarter
- `ticking off' in less than five minutes. You'll need to do your
- research and carefully calculate your moves because a lot is at
- stake here. If you decide to play agains the computer, be ready
- for one of the most savvy, shrewd, and ruthless players you'll
- ever encounter."
-
-
- MORE COMMENTS, FROM SOME REGISTERED USERS OF WALL $TREET RAIDER:
-
- "This is the best game I've ever played!" -- Stockbroker with
- Bear, Stearns & Co., Pittsburgh
-
- "Your program is a real hit with my students." -- Law professor,
- University of Missouri Law School
-
- "I've been playing Wall Street Raider, in my spare time,
- for the past three months. The program is brilliant --
- all the more so for how accurately it emulates what
- goes on in the real world. The exception being your
- sense of humor, which permeates so many otherwise
- serious incidents and makes the game very user friendly.
- ...I'm enthralled by the program and completely obsessed
- when I'm using it. My perspective on corporate strategy
- and financial markets will never be the same again."
- -- User in Belize, Central America
-
- "Great game! Superbly educational! A work of art! Thanks
- for share-waring it." -- User, SeaTac, Washington
-
- "Here is my registration fee for your highly enjoyable
- `Wall Street Raider'. I have found that it is an
- excellent way to work off some aggression after a hard
- day on the job." - User, Moline, Illinois
-
- "Your game is very popular at our company. No one here gets
- much work completed in these offices since we have commenced
- with playing the Wall Street Raider. All it misses is the
- false `spreadsheet' screen for when the boss is there.
- Please send me your strategy manual, `Take No Prisoners.'"
- -- Executive, Brussels, Belgium
-
-
-
-
- ===== Warranty =========================================
-
- WALL $TREET RAIDER (tm) LIMITED PRODUCT WARRANTY:
-
- Ronin Software specifically disclaims all warranties, express or
- implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of
- merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to
- the programs and data files that make up the Wall $treet Raider
- software product. Ronin Software shall have no liability with respect
- to any loss or damage directly or indirectly arising out of the use of
- the program or any portion thereof. Without limiting the foregoing,
- Ronin Software shall not be liable for any loss of profit, interruption
- of business, damage to equipment or data, interruption of operations or
- any other commercial damage, including but not limited to direct,
- indirect, special, incidental, consequential or other damages.
-
-
-
- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
-
- LICENSE FOR USE (END USER): Wall $treet Raider is a copyrighted
- software program. This shareware version may be used by an end user on
- a single computer system for 30 days. Any continued use after 30 days
- without registering the program is a violation of this limited license
- and constitutes an infringement of the publisher's copyright under the
- Federal copyright laws.
-
- DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (DISTRIBUTORS): Ronin Software wishes to grant
- distributors of the shareware version of Wall $treet Raider
- considerable flexibility in distributing this software program.
-
- The attached VENDINFO data record is hereby incorporated by reference.
- Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed
- in that data record is hereby authorized.
-
- Copyright (C) 1995 Ronin Software and Michael D. Jenkins,
- All Rights Reserved
-
-
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