TO ALL AMIGA PROGRAMMERS IN ANY LANGUAGE ======================================== Following are details of how to submit programs for evaluation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) The program you are submitting must be 100% your own work, you will be personally responsible for any breaches of copyright and as the copyright of your program will stay with you and not F1 you will be sued not us. Also the program must be exclusive to us and previously unreleased, except in demo form or if you have upgraded the software sufficiently. There may be other exceptions, ask us if you are not sure, we can only say no at worse. 2) All programs submitted must be compatible with Amiga`s 500/500+/600/1200 standard memory configurations. Exceptions being things like AGA only. 3) Please include the following details about your program: Basic outline of what it does, Language written in, Cheat modes (if any) How many levels (if applicable) which Amiga`s you have been able to test it on. Your name, address and phone number. 4) Please supply full documentation on disk in ASCII. Amiga file is OK but you must set it all up. 5) Please supply a stamp with all correspondence if you want a reply. If we accept your program ------------------------- Your program will be sold for £3.99 if it is on 1 disk £4.99 2 disks etc. Your royalty per copy sold will be 25% of the selling price for example: Sold at £3.99 (£1 royalty) £4.99 (£1.25 royalty) etc. Our top three selling programs authors each quarter will receive cash bonuses (TBA). If we accept your program you will be sent a contract to sign, read it carefully and if you are happy with it sign it and return as soon as possible. All programs accepted will be sent to all relevant magazines for review. Please leave sending review copies out to us as this is part of our service to you. Every three months you will receive a cheque from F1 if your program has earnt 5.00 or more, if it has not then the money will be held over until the next quarter. If we cannot accept your program we will let you know within a week, maximum. We will tell you exactly what we think is wrong with it and may offer advice and ideas to make your program acceptable to us. Some questions we have been asked by programmers recently ========================================================== Q. How, when and how much will I be paid for my program? A. Royalties are calculated at 25% of the purchase price of your program so if your program is being sold at £3.99 you will receive 1.00 for each and every copy we sell for you. Cheques will be sent directly to the programmers every quarter. Q. What type of programs are F1 looking for? A. Anything of quality including games/utilities/educational, as long as your program is better quality than a good P.D equivelent then you have a chance of acceptance, only about one in five programs are accepted by us. Q. Are there any rules for sending in my program for evaluation? A. Yes, State your name/address/phone number on the disk label, All programs must be original work and previously un-released, we can make exceptions if you have distributed demo versions or tried selling by mail order unsuccessfully! Every program must come with FULL on disk documentation or instructions inside the program itself, this is very important and we can make NO exceptions. Please let us know the minimum memory requirements (if known) and let us know what machines you know your program will run on, the minimum requirements are 500/500+ 600/1200 we can make exceptions in some cases on this point, please let us know which language your program is written in and the language version, for example Amos V1.36, this will help us work out compatibility. We will not except any obscene subject matter or anything likely to offend. Q. What else can F1 offer us programmers apart from our royalty? A. Not a lot! Well you can get 20% off of all our Licenceware products. Q. How are you going to sell my program? A. We will do everything in our power to sell your product, At the time of writing we have four distributers selling F1 products and we expect many more to join us soon, the 4 are P.D Soft, 17 Bit P.D, Jorvik P.D and Scribble P.D. We will send review copies of all our products to ALL relevant mags and will be coaxing news stories and plugs in any and every mag on the market (including disk mags) We have also been advertising in the top Amiga mags, but this will be slowing down as we take on more distributers as they will e advertising for us. selling your program is the only way we can survive so you can be sure we will be doing our best. Q. How do we know you will pay us the correct amount of royalties? A. You don`t! This is a trust thing, but saying that all our income will be from postal customers and they will mostly be paying by cheque which will have to go through the F1 bank account which the taxman will have his eye on for any discrepancies, we will publish sales records of every disk which will be sent to you with your cheque, in any case we are honest people (Husband, wife and two kids) trying to make an honest living and we want F1 to be a long term job for us and to do this successfully we have to build a bond of trust with our programmers. I have been stitched up in the past myself and you get to know who the straight people are very quickly, we wouldn`t last long being dishonest it is in our interest to be straight with you in the long run. Q. What happens if my program just simply does not sell? A. We will give it every chance but if sales are zero for a year we may offer to release it back to you but as it costs us nothing to keep it on we will if you want us to. Q. Can I put adverts in my program for other products of mine not Licenced to F1? A. Within reason, yes you can, most other Licenceware outfits (CLR) won`t allow this. Q. What do you do with all those disks you are sent? A. Not what you think! The disks that people send us (unless they pacifically ask for them back) we use to send out review copies to all the magazines. when you consider there are ten+ mags on the market this can add up to a lot of disks, so basically your disks help us to keep costs down and therefore the selling price down and more money for advertising, so be generous and let us keep your disks. If you have any questions or anything you are not sure of drop us a line and we will be pleased to answer your questions. F1 Licenceware 31 Wellington Rd, Exeter. Devon. EX2-9DU