This is the Readme: ************************ 3/5/2001 Server Watch 3.0 Gamer's Preview Release ---------------------------------------------------------------------- index: 1) What is Server Watch? 2) What's New? 3) What was left out? 4) What will change in SW3 final? 5) Advertising and Privacy 6) Links and Acknowledgements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) What is Server Watch? Server Watch sits in your task tray, monitors your servers, and displays the current status and information using a combination of tray icons, status windows, email and sound. Server Watch allows you to remotely administer your severs so that you don't have to be next to your server all day long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) What's New? Multiple Servers - Server Watch now allows you to monitor and administer all of your servers at once without having to use MSM and MSS. Plugins - All server types are implemented in plugins to allow the maximum amount of flexibility and to allow our users to monitor more than just game servers. Users will be able to write their own plugins to monitor server types that we don't currently support. Server Join - You can now specify an application to use in order to join the server that you are monitoring. Web Templates - Users can create web templates that Server Watch will fill with data to be displayed to the world. New Icon Plugins - The old icon plugins failed. They were to difficult for people to make, so no one did. This has changed. We now use a very easy to understand text format to define our plugins and even include a special program that allows users to make icons easily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) What was left out? This is the Gamer's Preview Release. The administration features of the final version do not appear in this release. We have also dropped support for certain game types. If you want us to create plugins for these again, please email us and we will get to them when there is time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) What will change in SW3 final? Administration - We've left this functionality out of the Gamer's Preview Release so that we could publish some of our hard work sooner. The final release of version 3 will have all of the administration capabilities of version 2, plus a number of features designed for the novice administrator and to allow the experienced ones to do things faster. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Advertising and Privacy Server Watch 3 is advertisingware. This will allow us to continue working on the program. Without it, it would be nearly impossible for us to spend the necessary time on Server Watch. But we want to make certain privacy issues clear. You do not need to give any of your personal information to use this program. If you feel uncomfortable with giving this information, then please do not feel forced to do so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) Link and Acknowledgements Copyright 2001 Deep Fried Software Deep Fried LLC http://www.dfsoftware.com http://www.dfsoftware.com/downloads.html http://www.dfsoftware.com/ServerWatch/ Thanks To: Mindvision http://www.mindvision.com Steve Jankowski http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html Conducent http://www.conducent.com/