				WELCOME TO

			SpiteNET: Spite & Malice

		     The card game with an attitude.

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Multiplayer Edition

Please note that this download does not include the add-on personalities for Malice and Sven. That file can be downloaded separately.

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The complete User's Manual is included within the game. Includes extensive indexed Help files for game play rules and instructions, game options, tips, hints and wit, and playing on the Internet. All are accessible from the game's Help Menu.

Please visit Spite's Site to be sure you have the latest and greatest version, add-on Personalities and Backpacks!

SpiteNET site:   http://www.spitenet.com 

If you didn't download this file from Spite's site, stop by and check if you have the latest version.

You can download "Backpacks" from Spite's Site, which are free add-on packs of backgrounds for your game. The "Starter Backpack" contains 10 additional backgrounds that we believe are the best of the best for your enjoyment while playing Spite & Malice!

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SYSTEM Requirements: 
One of the following operating systems is need: 

Win95/Win98/ME WinNT/Win2000 WinXP

Minimum 200 MHz recommended

SpiteNET: Spite and Malice is designed for a minimum of 800x600 monitor resolution. It looks best with more than 256 colors, High Color (16 bit) recommended.

Card Animation Speed: Adjust the card animation speed from the Options Menu. Older computers (400 MHz and older) may need to adjust it to faster. Computers over 1 GHz may want to adjust the speed to slower. 

If you have an older computer which is low on memory, use the plain green background. Image files take up memory, so if you find the screen redraws slowly, use the plain mat background instead of the picture backgrounds. 

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Evaluation:
This Software is shareware. SpiteNET: Spite and Malice is not free or public domain software and is subject to copyright. The Software includes a disabling mechanism to prevent the use of the Software after the evaluation period (30 days) unless the appropriate registration code is entered. Your right to use any part of the Software after the expiration of the evaluation period is subject to your registering as a user and the payment of the registration licensing fee. You may make additional evaluation copies of the Software and distribute evaluation copies of the Software to others, providing that each copy is an exact copy and that a newer version does not exist.

Registration:
Please visit Spite's Site if you wish to register and pay by credit card.
To register your copy by check or money order, please fill in and then print out the registration form using the Register option from the game's Help Menu. Write to Registration@spitenet.com for the current mail-in address. Mail the registration form with $24.00 US dollars, check or money order to the address you receive. Foreign currency and foreign checks not accepted. 

Technical support related to this software is available at by email: Support@spitenet.com.

Disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability:
The Author does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations that the functions contained in the Software will meet your requirements or that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free. The Author intends that the Software will be used for entertainment purposes only.

The Software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or of any other type, whether express or implied.

The complete Licensing Agreement is included in the installation program.

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INSTALLATION:

The download file is in zipped format. If you are reading this, you have already begun the unzipping process! Some unzipping software will automatically run the setup/installation program for you. If not, unzip the files into a temporary directory and then run Setup.exe to install SpiteNET: Spite and Malice.

It is advisable to reboot your system after installing, esp. for WinNT/2000/XP Pro users.

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Uninstalling SpiteNET: Spite & Malice

The setup program used to install this software has added an application removal utility to the list of registered applications displayed in the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.

Use Add/Remove Programs from the Windows Control Panel to uninstall this application and any add-on personality modules.

If you have added backgrounds and avatars to your game, these will not be removed. After using the Windows application removal utility, you may safely delete the SpiteNET8 directory folder with the remaining files that you have added.
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SpiteNET: Spite & Malice V.8
Multiplayer Edition
Copyright (c)1998-2003 by Mari JP Sderberg
SpiteNET(TM)
All rights reserved.

Spite's theme and some other sounds were created exclusively for this software by Paul Bagin, PBProductions, New York. Used under agreement. pbproductions@spitenet.com

Comments, questions and fan mail to Spite are greatly appreciated. 

Email: Registration@spitenet.com

Mari JP Sderberg 
New York, USA - Sundbyberg, Sweden 

February 2003
Mari@spitenet.com
