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RaceManPro is Windsurfing Race Management Shareware
With developmental costs of $750,000, RaceManPro is definitely not freeware! Although we invite you to download and try RaceManPro, we also ask you to be fair and send in your annual user fee of $25 for each year you use the program. We think that's a very fair and nominal fee. To register the program, send your name, organization, address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address to:
UPGRADING THE PLATFORM You may be wondering why we don't upgrade Access 2.0 to the latest version. At the present time, RaceManPro runs under the greatest possible number of operating systems: WINDOWS 3.x; WINDOWS 9x; WINDOWS NT & 2000; and IBM'S OS/2 (under WIN/OS2). It should also run on Windows XP and Apple Mac (using Connectix's Virtual PC) but we haven't tested these ourselves. If we were to upgrade to the latest version of Access or Windows, we would reduce the number of operating systems supported. Rather than become more platform restrictive, we probably should be looking at becoming truly platform independent and going for something like Java. However, the cost to upgrade our present platform or change to another platform is prohibitive without major sponsorship. USER AGREEMENTS Microsoft Access Runtime files is owned by Microsoft Corporation. RaceManPro and RaceManPro HELP files including Race Committee Help Articles are owned by the developers whose names are on file with the US Copyright Office. The software is protected by United States copyright law and international treaty provisions. Users may make printouts of the Race Committee Help Articles for their own use only. Users may not make printouts of the Race Committee Help Articles for wholesale or retail distribution/reselling. If that's your interest, contact me for royalty fee information. You or your organization as the registered user, may: Copy the software onto as many computers as you need to in order to get the job done.Summing up, RaceManPro is our property and we are sharing it with you for an annual user fee of $25. We appreciate your understanding, cooperation and sense of fair play. We offer no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or function. We offer this software and the accompanying files to you "As Is" and without warranties as to performance or merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. Any good data processing procedure means that the program be thoroughly tested with non-critical data before relying on it for critical data. The user must assume all risk for using this program. We've made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this program. However, the developers of RaceManPro make no warranties and disclaim all implied warranties with respect to anything, past, present and future. We disassume (that's the opposite of assume) all responsibility for errors or changes, either prior to publication and release or after publication and release. We disassume all responsibility for any loss or damage of any kind that may result from the use, misuse or abuse of this software at any time or at any place. We disassume responsibility for any stress reactions you might choose to have as a result of using this software. In fact, we disassume responsibility for any stress reactions you might choose to have as a result of NOT using this software :-) . DOWNLOAD RaceManPro (8 June 2002 Version) If you have faster download speeds, click here for the single Windows Self-Extracting file: Otherwise, download these disks: DISK1
After you've downloaded and unzipped the disk set into a local directory on your HDD, start RaceManPro Installer by clicking "Setup" on Disk 1. For Mac,you can use Aladdin Systems "Stuffit"; for Windows,you can use WinZip. We encourage you to save the 12 disks to floppys for safekeeping. ONE LAST WORD Windsurfing Race Management has never fit into a worldwide standardized format and probably never will. I guess that's just part of the "human condition". RaceManPro offers associations around the world a program with ALL possible viable options. If you would like to do it differently than RaceManPro allows, most likely you really don't need to do it! You might be amazed to learn how many requests we have gotten to add a certain "unique scoring protocol" or "feature" or "rule change". Often we coded the new idea and tested it and to date, every new idea made scoring more complex but never more accurate!!! The K.I.S.S. Rule (Keep It Simple) is still the best way to go and sometimes I fear RaceManPro is already way beyond simple! In my experience conducting windsurfing events, both small and large, RaceManPro did everything I could possibly need to do ... and then some. Then we added in the requests of other respected race directors around the world. The result is that RaceManPro includes every possible viable event option (all the rest we consider not viable). However, in the process, RaceManPro became rather complex at first glance. One of the greatest challenges for the programmer is to clearly describe what YOU do in your particular race management style in such a way that you understand what RaceManPro needs to know in order to work properly. PLEASE STUDY THE "RACE COMMITTEE HELP ARTICLES" BEFORE TRYING TO SET RaceManPro's EVENT OPTIONS! Once you master the logic, setting up your event will be much easier! Note: the IMCO code is totally obsolete and does not reflect recent rule changes. In an effort to get RaceManPro back on line, I didn't take the time to remove all the IMCO code. Future editions will correct this ... should there even be a future edition.
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