ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Program Title: Fat Art's Quizzer Copyright: The Arthur Dellea Company (C)1997 Author: Arthur Dellea Began: 2/1/97 Last Modified: 2/8/97 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Description: The QUIZZER is a program that can help you learn word definitions or phrases much easier than conventional methods. The quiz files and its score files cannot be edited with any text editor, so there's little chance of any cheating or hacked test scores. Now included in the package is QUIZEDIT, which allows you to create and edit quiz files for the QUIZZER, and will help you make distributable QUIZZER disks for an entire class or group. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Notes: The QUIZZER can be a helpful utility for schools and businesses, allowing you to train students or test their knowledge on any subject you wish. QUIZEDIT will allow you to have full control over the quizzes that you create, and also allows you to see each student's results at a glance. All quiz and score files are compressed and encrypted, so they cannot be modified by anyone without QUIZEDIT. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ History: I've wanted to design a program like this for a while, and after months of brainstorming and note taking, I threw these programs together in a few days. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ License Agreement: You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using this software. Unless you have a different license agreement signed by the Arthur Dellea Company, your use of this software you indicates your acceptance of this license agreement and warranty. Shareware Version Evaluation and Registration: This is not free software. You are hereby licensed to use this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. If you use this software after the 30 day evaluation period a registration fee is required. Unregistered use of this software after the 30-day evaluation period is in violation of U.S. and international copyright laws. To register this program, please refer to the file called ORDER.TXT included with this package. Distribution: Provided that you verify that you are distributing the Shareware Version you are hereby licensed to make as many copies of the Shareware version of this software and documentation as you wish; give exact copies of the original Shareware version to anyone; and distribute the Shareware version of the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means. There is no charge for any of the above. You are specifically prohibited from charging, or requesting donations, for any such copies, however made; and from distributing the software and/or documentation with other products (commercial or otherwise) without prior written permission. Registered Version: One registered copy of this software may either be used by a single person who uses the software personally on one or more computers, or installed on a single workstation used by multiple people through a network. You can upgrade to the latest version at a discount, if a newer version is available. Please refer to the file called ORDER.TXT included with this package. Governing Law: This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Massachusetts. Disclaimer of Warranty: THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. Good data processing procedure dictates that any program be thoroughly tested with non-critical data before relying on it. The user must assume the entire risk of using the program. ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minimum System Requirements: Hardware & O.S. - IBM 8086 compatible, floppy drive, MS-DOS Anything better than this will be able to use the program. A printer is suggested so you can print out documentation. Using the program: In order to use this program, I suggest that if you have a hard drive, to copy this program and all of its included files into its own directory on your hard drive. To do this, please run INSTALL.EXE to copy the program to your hard drive (or you can do it yourself with MS-DOS or Windows). The included BBSTERM quiz tests your knowledge about computer bulletin board systems and many of the commonly-used terms, and is included simply to let you see how QUIZZER looks and feels. If you think this program would be great to test your students, employees, your kids, or even yourself, you should register this program. QUIZEDIT gives you the power to create and edit your own quizzes, to create distributable QUIZZER disks that you can pass out to students/employees, and it even lets you read the score files from your students' or employees'disks so you can see how well they do on the quizzes you create. The QUIZZER and any quiz files you design are freely distributable and you can make any number of copies of them that you wish, but the QUIZEDIT program should NOT be redistributed, and you should only keep one working copy and a backup copy of QUIZEDIT, in a safe place. QUIZEDIT creates files that end with the .QIZ extension. These are the actual quiz files that QUIZZER.EXE can execute. These quiz files are saved in a compressed and encrypted format, so nobody can edit the quizzes you create. When someone uses QUIZZER (or when you take a quiz using QUIZEDIT) another file type is created, the score file. All score files have the .TOP extension, and contain a list of the top ten scores for the .QIZ file with the same name. The score files are also saved in a compressed and encrypted format so they can't be edited, but they can be read by QUIZZER and QUIZEDIT. When you create distributable QUIZZER disks to hand out to a class or a group of people, the QUIZZER.EXE file and any .QIZ files that you choose are copied to each disk. You can then hand the disks out and have the individuals return them to you after they have taken the quizzes that you designed. Then you can review each individual's QUIZZER diskette by using QUIZEDIT and selecting the 'read scores from disk' option, which will let you see the .TOP score files for each quiz the individual took. These are some of the benefits that QUIZZER and QUIZEDIT have to offer, but there are many more that I'm sure you won't realize until you have used them for a while. For example, you don't have to photocopy and hand out quizzes to a group, and each quiz can be taken a limitless number of times. The QUIZZER can be a great study tool, and may even be more helpful than regular homework assignments in some cases. Every time the QUIZZER is used to take a quiz, all of the multiple-choice answers are randomized for each question, so no two quizzes are alike - this keeps the quiz from getting stale, makes cheating more difficult, and can help students learn better than your standard paper quiz. Finally, I'd like to say that if you have any comments, suggestions or questions, let me know ASAP. And also important - if you find any bugs in this program, get in touch with me! I try my best to make all my software bug-free. Sincerely, Arthur Dellea Any questions about the status of the shipment of an order, refunds, registration options, product details, technical support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses, etc., must be directed to: US Mail : Arthur Dellea Company 32 Alford Road, Alford MA 01230-1515 Voice : (413)528-4163 Data : (413)528-0213 E-Mail : arthurdellea@worldnet.att.net