================================================================ Company: Dustbowl Designs, Inc. 12600 S.E. 38th Street Choctaw, OK 73020-6107 (405) 741-4705 messages (405) 741-2721 BBS (online registration available) Technical support: via our BBS or voice lines. ================================================================ Program Title: 4_Speed v1.0 Compile Date : 8-20-93 1:00 am Previous Version: none Category: Utilities, Hard Drives Keywords: IDE, DISK, HARD, TRANSFER, RATE BBS Name: 4SPD100.ZIP ---------------------------------- Program Description: (FILEID.DIZ) ----------------------------- 4_Speed v1.0: Hard drive Data Transfer Rate Test utility. Gives you a real time look in a graphics screen format of your drive's DTR. Save results to logs and PCX files. Show results from multiple drive tests. High resolution timer for accurate averages. Works on both Primary and Secondary Port Addresses thru DOS. Req: 286+CPU,VGA. Dustbowl Designs, Inc. (Date 8/20/93) -AV -------------- Intended User: -------------- Anyone working with and evaluating the performance characteristics of hard disk drives. -------------------- System Requirements: -------------------- IBM or compatible AT (286+), VGA, Hard Drive, MS/PC DOS 3 or higher. --------------------------- Shareware Registration Fee: --------------------------- None! This file primarily serves as a marketing tool for our 3/4_Drives and DiskQwik hard drive shareware utilities. You are free to copy this software and distribute it to other users as long as the archive file is distributed in its entirety with this text file included in the archive. ----------------- Support Provided: ----------------- Unlimited support via homebase BBS, notification of future upgrades. --------------- Files Included: --------------- Contents of the 4_Speed Distribution Set. 4SPD100.ZIP (4SPD.ZIP on CompuServe (tm) go IBMHW forum Lib 1) 4_SPEED.EXE A VGA graphics based Data Transfer Rate Test utility. (Compiled 8-20-93 1:00 am) 4_SPEED.DOC Auxiliary documentation. DBOWLDEM.EXE Simple demo that gives a look at registered 4_Drives v3.0 and 4_Park v1.1, and our new DiskQwik programs. VENDOR4.DOC Shareware vendor distribution policy ***************************************************************** - - - - - Distribution Policy - - - - - Dear Shareware Vendor: This file contains our distribution policy and information on all products. Dustbowl Designs, Inc. has a simple distribution policy: You have permission to distribute our shareware in its original form as long as you: * identify it as shareware (with an appropriate definition) * leave all intellectual property (copyright) notices in place ..and as long as we do not request that you stop. That's it. You may archive our programs, unarchive them, include/exclude optional files (like this one), include them with other programs on the same diskette, and do essentially anything you want as long as you follow these simple rules. We want the widest possible distribution, and don't want to stand in your way so long as you are honest with our mutual customer. We insist that you include all files with the same name (4_SPEED.EXE, 4_SPEED.DOC) in your distribution together with the file DBOWLDEM.EXE. You may choose to include all or a part of this file with your distribution at your option. Our normal distribution sequence is: 1 New versions are offered to our registered users and are automatically shipped to new registrants. 2 New versions available on our homebase BBS Dustbowl Designs, Inc. BBS 405/741-2721, CompuServe Information Service (go IBMHW). 3 All ASP distribution members are included in the regular ASP mailing. This saves both of us both money and effort; if you are not an ASP vendor or bulletin board member, please consider joining. 4 Then, we send copies of major revisions of software to non-ASP vendors who have notified us of their interest. If you are a catalog house, send us a copy of the catalog in which the program appears, together with a copy of the diskette(s) containing the program(s) you wish to distribute; we will send you a copy of any major updates to our software. If you run a bulletin board, send us a diskette(s) containing the program(s) you wish to distribute, and your mailing address, and we will update the diskette and mail it back to you. International: If you are a publisher interested in translating and supporting our products in another language, please contact us to discuss an exclusive agreement for your language and country. If you are interested in providing registration and support services outside of North America in English, we are interested in working with you on a non-exclusive basis. If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, please contact us at the address listed above. -=EOF VENDOR4.DOC=-