Table of Contents Toyland

Copyright (C) 1995 Rainald Menge

Toyland 0.5 for OS/2

Public Demo Version [Beta]

Copyright, Distribution

Toyland is Shareware, Copyright (C) 1995 Rainald Menge

This software is provided "AS IS". No warranty of any kind can be given for damage caused through Toyland directly or indirectly or any other way. If the program should prove defective, the purchaser assumes the risk of paying the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction and any incidental or consequential damages. In no event will Rainald Menge be liable for any damages whatsoever (including without limitation damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information and the like) arising out of the use or the inability to use this product even if Rainald Menge has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Permission to copy and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without charging more than a nominal fee for copying is hereby granted, provided that this text and the copyright notice appear in all copies and both appear in supporting documentation as well as the notice that this is a beta version of Toyland.

About this version

This version (0.5) is a public demo version. It is BETA and there is no registered version yet. If you have any trouble please let me know. Two different versions are available: If your computer is able to run hi-color I highly recommend the hi-color version.

The game has been tested since early August by 33 beta testers. This is the first public version.

This game has most features of the final Shareware version. However there might still be some problems with certain hardware combinations and some add-ons are being made (see The Future of Toyland)

What Do You Need to Run Toyland

  1. OS/2: The game has been tested on Warp only but it should also work with 2.x
  2. A graphic adapter with at least 256 colors / better with hi-color
  3. The emx-runtime OR full emx package. If you don't have either of these you can download them from nearly any OS/2 site and they are on most OS/2 CDs. If you don't know how to get them please contact me.

Installation, Uninstallation

To install the game simply unzip Toyland.zip (or Toyland-256.zip) to a directory of your choice. Either create a program icon for Toyland.exe or type Toyland at the command prompt. The game must be started from its directory - so if you create a program icon make sure you set the Working directory to the respective path. You need the emx-runtime package OR the full version of emx. If you don't have either of these you can download them from nearly any OS/2 site and they are on most OS/2 CDs. If you don't know how to get them please contact me.

The game creates files (players, options) only in the start directory. It doesn't change the system's ini-files or your config.sys so you just have to delete the directory to get rid of Toyland. However if you installed the emx-runtime package for Toyland and want to remove it as well make sure you delete the respective files.

Where to Find More Information

The Future of Toyland

The release version of Toyland will be available in December. Registration will be possible in November. Development will continue even after the release is available. The development will mostly depend on the number of registrations.

Release Version (Shareware)

The release version will have (almost) all of the bugs you report fixed. It will also have music and joystick support. Some graphics and animations will also be added to the game. The sound will be improved. I will add your ideas.

Registered Version

The Toyland Mailing List

Everybody can join the mailing list. All Toyland beta testers are on the list as well so that you can: To subscribe to the list send a message to maiser@its.flint.umich.edu (any subject). First line of the body of the message should be:

subscribe toyland

To send to the list, address the message to toyland@its.flint.umich.edu. However only members of the list may post - so you have to subscribe first.

How to Contact the Author

You can reach me via email at:

menge@rrz.uni-koeln.de

If you don't have email you can snail-mail me at:

Rainald Menge Wahlscheider Str. 14 D-51109 Koeln Germany
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