#Titel Forum / Nerv / Nerv - Test #Logo gadget16:Pinsel/AG.Forum #Font Losse 16 #C31 Nerv 1.0 #Font topaz 8 #C10 PRODUCT NAME #C21 Nerv, version 1.0 #C10 BRIEF DESCRIPTION #C21 Nerv simulates working with an unregistered shareware program. #C10 AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION #C21 Name: KLOAKE Soft Address: E-mail: mluehr@htwm.de #Seitenende #C10 LIST PRICE #C21 Shareware: 30.- DEM (German currency only). Available on Aminet (pub/aminet/util/misc/Nerv.lha on wuarchive.wustl.edu and possibly other mirror sites). #C10 SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE #C21 Kickstart 37.175 or higher (AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher). #C10 SOFTWARE #C21 exec.library dos.library intuition.library #Seitenende #C10 COPY PROTECTION #C21 None. #C10 MACHINE USED FOR TESTING #C21 Amiga 500/7, 2 MB Fast RAM, 1 MB Chip RAM, 5 MB Missing RAM. 1 internal 880K floppy 1 external 880K floppy Quantum 240 MB external hard drive. Sucking Monitor AmigaDOS 2.0. 2 Bottles of Coke #Seitenende #C10 INSTALLATION #C21 One line must be added manually to the startup-sequence, and one program must be copied to the C: directory. #Seitenende #C10 REVIEW #C21 The product is submitted in three different languages: German, English and Swabian. After running one of the versions, an annoying requester appears every few seconds. It has four buttons that all do the same thing: close the requester. After you have acknowledged the requester several times, you really get annoyed. It's really not possible to work while running Nerv, as the Workbench screen pops up every time with the requester on it. It seems to multitask nicely -- when you don't respond to one of its requesters for a while, a second requester pops up. If you run the program from the CLI, it may be terminated easily by pressing the usual control-C key sequence. If you run it as mentioned in the manual -- installing it in the startup-sequence -- you can send a break signal to Nerv to terminate the program. I was a little disappointed that I could stop the program from annoying me without being registered. It also had no problems with any other program running in the background, which is a misfeature. #Seitenende #C10 DOCUMENTATION #C21 German documentation only. The program is to be used intuitively and does not need any documentation, though. #C10 LIKES #C21 It really does what the term "Suckware" promises. After you have answered the requester for at least the 7th time, it really gets annoying. I really like the Swabian version. #Seitenende #C10 DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS #C21 You can break the program by sending a control-C signal to it. This feature should be removed or changed to a less usual key-combination. There should be more buttons and fewer different texts in them. It is too easy to deinstall the program. Deinstallation should be possible only with registered versions. #C10 COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS #C21 There are NO other similar products on market. #C10 BUGS #C21 It works. #Seitenende #C10 VENDOR SUPPORT #C21 User pays extra for ordering the packet. #C10 WARRANTY #C21 The program comes with a promise to annoy you as long as you run it. #C10 CONCLUSIONS #C21 It's one of the most useless products ever, but it is worth using. #Seitenende #C10 COPYRIGHT NOTICE #C21 This review is Shareware. If you want to read it more than once, you have to register it. The price for it is (standardized) 30.- DEM (German currency only). For getting the account number, send me a mail. ;o) - Stefan Schulz schulz@informatik.uni-kl.de #C10 --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu Moderator mail: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu Anonymous ftp site: math.uh.edu, in /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews