Magic Card Tracker ver 2.0 written by R-n-D Associates Copyright 1996 To install: For Windows 3.X: Select File and Run in Program Manager. type in A:SETUP. press ENTER. follow the prompts. for Windows 95 Using Explorer, select the A: drive. Double click SETUP.EXE follow the prompts. Magic Card Tracker is a Windows based program which inventories Magic: The Gathering cards. It's features include: - Deck oriented design - Cards and Information from all editions and expansions up to Homelands. - HTML export for Home Page publishing on the World Wide Web. - CSV export compatible with Excel and other popular spreadsheets. - Import the Cloister price list to update card values. - Ability to check decks for tournament legalness. - Simulate first 8 cards drawn from a deck. - Mana recommendations for a deck. - Summary of a deck's values. - Print function - Filter decks on Color, Edition/Expansion, Spell Type, Artist - Tips and Status bars - Window positions and settings saved from one session to the next. - Usable by the novice to experienced computer user. The shareware version has the following disabling features added: - A deck may only contain up to 39 cards. - Up to 5 unique cards may be printed, or exported. Registering removes these lockouts. Please view the included file "orderfrm.txt" for prices and ordering information. The following files are installed in the BIN directory: - mct20.exe - Main Windows executable. - setup.exe - Setup program - for uninstalling if necessary - mct20.dat - Data file containing card statistics - mct202.dat - Data file containing card descriptions and flavor text - mct20.hlp - Main help file - mctsetup.hlp - Help file for the setup program - mct20.ico - executable's icon - black.bmp - skull bitmap - blue.bmp - water bitmap - green.bmp - tree bitmap - red.bmp - fireball bitmap - white.bmp - sun bitmap - title.bmp - Magic Card Tracker logo - author.bmp - Picture of the programmer The selected directory: - readme.txt - This file you are reading. - orderfrm.txt - An ordering form. In addition, several pricelists from the Cloister site: ftp.hhhh.org are included in the PRICES directory. Finally, the last file is MAGICCT.INI which is created in the WINDOWS directory. Contains settings to save from one session to the next. To reach the programmer, Russell Johnson E-mail : rndassoc@turbonet.com Web : http://porky.turbonet.com/rndassoc/mct To reach the help file writer, Dave Chamberlain E-mail : davec@uidaho.edu Web : http://www.uidaho.edu/~davec We will reply to any e-mail as soon as possible. ****************************************************************************** * Legal Notice * ****************************************************************************** Magic Card Tracker, hereafter MCT, version 2.0 is released as shareware and you are free to distribute and share, contingent upon the package of files remaining in the same order, and composition. The programmers retain all rights to the software and make no guarantees or warranties as to the suitablity of the software and will not be held responsible for any damages or mishaps which may occur out of the use of MCT. Registered users are entitled to free bug fixes sent via internet e-mail when available. Limited software support is also available, but at the discretion of the programmers. In addition, it is a violation of the usage contract if you or any other party manipulates the encryption routines in an effort to bypass registering. In addition, if you provide a registered copy of the software to another party, your contract and all rights thereof become null and void. Please keep in mind that we are just college students, who believe in a free market society. Please don't disillusion us. Enough of that! Enjoy, thank you for your support and if you have any suggestions for features to add/changes or anything else, don't hesitate to send them to Dave or Russ. Thanks!