﻿Fate-Master:
'Fate-Master' is a mix of manual, information and solution for the game: "Fate - Gates of Dawn". But not all informations have found their way into the program. For more detailed informations you should read the 'Fate 1 Kompendium' - at least one time.

Moreover, all maps were updated. Meaning: they were unified, corrected, completed, verified and where needed cleaned-up (unnecessary artifacts were deleted). But i didn´t walked each and every field in the Dungeons, so that it´s possible that there is the one-or-other trap i haven´t yet found.



Intention for this program:
Well, it had some reasons:
1. I didn´t want to run multiple programs beside the game.
2. I wanted to put (almost) all informations in one place.
3. The informations should be inside a database, so that the data are available system-independent and future programs may access them.



Dependencies:
The program 'FateMaster.exe' is a so-called 'stand-alone executable'. Meaning that you don´t need any additional runtime libraries (e.g. VisualBasic, VisualC, DirectX) or Frameworks (e.g. JavaSE or DotNet), to run this program.



Systems:
Tested: 	Windows XP(x86), Windows 7(x86, x64), Windows 10.x(x64)
Untested: 	Windows Vista, Windows 8.x



Installation:
To install you just have to create a folder of any valid name you want, and copy all the files from the archive into it.
With the first start of 'FateMaster.exe', a folder with the name 'FateMaster' is created inside the User-directory: 

WinXP: 'C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data' 
Win7+: 'C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming'

Inside the folder 'FateMaster' an ini-file with the name 'FateMaster.ini' is created. This ini-file contains the program-settings.


This procedure has the following advantages:
- No Administrator-Rights needed to run this program.
- No changes/modifications are made inside the Registry.

But some disadvantages too:
- You have to remove the program-files manually (except FateMaster.ini).
- There is no entry created inside the 'Start' menu.
- There is no link created on the Desktop.



Uninstall:
Inside the program 'Fate-Master' you´ll find the button 'Uninstall' under the tab 'Options'. With a click on that button only the folder 'FateMaster' (and the contained file 'FateMaster.ini') are removed from the User-directory. The program-files must be removed manually.
Attention: If you restart the program after an 'Uninstall', the folder 'Fate Master' is created again.



Terms and Conditions:
Fate-Master
Copyright (c) 2016  Dragonfly

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.



Third-parties:
The file 'FateMaster.exe' contains the following libraries:

SQLite3:
The author disclaims copyright to this source code.  In place of
a legal notice, here is a blessing:

May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.


LibPNG (version 1.2.25):
libpng versions 1.0.7, July 1, 2000, through 1.2.5, October 3, 2002, are
Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson, and are
distributed according to the same disclaimer and license as libpng-1.0.6
with the following individuals added to the list of Contributing Authors:

   Simon-Pierre Cadieux
   Eric S. Raymond
   Gilles Vollant

and with the following additions to the disclaimer:

There is no warranty against interference with your enjoyment of the
library or against infringement.  There is no warranty that our
efforts or the library will fulfill any of your particular purposes
or needs.  This library is provided with all faults, and the entire
risk of satisfactory quality, performance, accuracy, and effort is with
the user.



Thank you for reading!
