SciTech Software Software Products and Ordering Information October 22, 1993 Copyright (C) 1993 SciTech Software. All Rights Reserved. This file contains important information you will need to know before ordering any products from SciTech Software, and information about the Software Products that SciTech Software sells. In order to save time and resources, the actual product order form is included separately in the file ORDER.DOC. You should print the order form and fill in the required information AFTER you have fully read the information contained in this document. Please ensure that you read and understand the license agreement governing the use of this software in the file LICENSE.DOC before ordering any products from SciTech Software. This file is formatted to allow you to read the document online using a text editor such as the MSDOS EDIT program, or can be printed on your printer using the following command: copy products.doc prn or by using the MSDOS print command. Don't try and print the file using a word processor such as Word For Windows as the formatting information will be lost. SciTech Software Product Information Page: 1 Ordering Information -------------------- Shipping Charges There is no additional charge for standard shipping via Economy Airmail within Australia for most goods. However for heavier items (see shipping codes in following table) additional shipping charges will be added. There is an additional shipping charge for shipping items outside of Australia. Please consult the following table to find the correct shipping charges for the product you are ordering (incorrect orders will unfortunately have to be returned): Within Autralia Shipping Code: | A B C D E ----------------+---------------------------- Economy Air: | N/A N/A $3 $7 $10 Normal Air: | N/A N/A $15 $20 $25 --------------------------------------------- U.S.A and Europe Shipping Code: | A B C D E ----------------+---------------------------- Economy Air: | $2 $5 $10 $20 $25 Normal Air: | $2 $5 $12 $30 $40 --------------------------------------------- The shipping code for each product is listed in the first column next to the name of the product as a single uppercase letter. Please contact SciTech software for discount shipping charges on 3 or more items. For other shipping charges please contact SciTech Software for pricing. Payment Terms All credit card charges will be authorised. Your card will generally be charged the day the order is shipped or possibly the day before. Personal checks may be subject to a bank clearance delay before shipment of your order. All payments must be made payable in Australian dollars (A$) drawn on an Australian bank for customers within Australia. For international customers, all payment must be made payable in U.S. dollars as an international money order or credit card order; see below for more details on international orders. International Orders SciTech Software is happy to accept orders from customers not resident in Australia. You will need to make the payment payable in U.S. dollars as either an international money order or credit card order. Personal checks cannot be accepted from international customers. International orders will also be subject to higher shipping SciTech Software Product Information Page: 2 fees. Please see the section above to determine the shipping fees required for your order. Upgrade Policy When you purchase a single copy of any of the products sold by SciTech Software, you can obtain maintenance releases of the product on disk at nominal charge from SciTech Software. Major upgrades of the product will also be available from SciTech software on disk for a reasonable cost. When you purchase a maintenance release of a product from SciTech software on disk, it always comes with electronic copies of the manuals on disk. New printed manuals are available for extra charge if required. New printed manuals will always be supplied for major upgrades. SciTech Software Product Information Page: 3 Product Information ------------------- Universal VESA VBE The Universal VESA VBE is a small Terminate and Stay Resident program (TSR) for MSDOS that provides the VESA Video BIOS Extensions (VBE) for most SuperVGA cards on the market. It provides the latest VESA VBE standard so you can be sure your favorite programs will work correctly. Programs like Microsoft Flight Simulator 5 require that something like this be installed to obtain the highest performance possible. It also comes with a special 'paranoid' test program, for fully stress testing all VESA VBE interface implementations to ensure that they fully conform to the latest standards. Universal VESA VBE Source Code Full source code for the above program. In order to be able to compile this you will need to have the Borland C++ 3.1 or later compiler for MSDOS. When you order this you will also recieve the source for the SuperVGA test kit library. Miscellaneous freeware The miscellaneous freeware disk contains a number of freely available tools developed by the people at SciTech Software over the years. They are supplied as is, without any warranty and are not supported, but come supplied with full source code. The tools included on the disk are: SuperVGA Kit ------------ A small set of test programs and libraries for programming SuperVGA cards in 16,256,32k,64k and 16 million color modes using the VESA VBE programming interface. Comes with a simple library showing how to interface with the VESA VBE from C and C++ programs. It also includes the full source code for the 'paranoid' VESA VBE stress test program. C Tools ------- A set of tools for working with data structures and other things in ANSI C. This library was written a long time ago and has since been converted in the Techniques Class Library described above. Useful if you still write code in ANSI C. Trans ----- A fast text file translation program for converting text files between DOS and Unix formats and expanding tabs to spaces. Comes with makefiles to for both DOS and Unix environments. SciTech Software Product Information Page: 4 Makefile Utilities ------------------ A number of simple utility programs for simplifying the work required to use the make program to create libraries and integrate with RCS. Works with Borland C++ make. The Zen Timer Library --------------------- This is a 'C' callable library for timing code fragments with an accuracy of better than 10 microseconds under the MSDOS operating system. The code was originally written by Michael Abrash for his book "Zen of Assembly language - Volume I, Knowledge" and was made into a 'C' callable library with a set of C++ wrapper classes. SciTech Software Product Information Page: 5