Mountain Terrain Screen Saver by A.C. Barentyne © 1996, Kalamazoo Cigar Company ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of the zip: This zip file should contain the following files: Mountain Terrain.scr : Main screen saver (for high color) ScrPlus.hlp : Context help for general options Mountains.txt : This file ----------------------------------------------------------------- Installing the program: This program is distributed as a Zip compressed file. Unzip the file, using WinZip, or some other PKZIP compliant decompression utility, into your Windows or Windows\system directory. This is usually, but not necessarily, C:\win95 or c:\win95\system. If you unzipped into a temporary directory, simply move the files 'Mountain Terrain.scr' and 'ScrPlus.hlp' into one of the above directories, using Explorer. Select the program from the list of screen savers in the Display Properties dialog. To access this dialog, either Right-Click on an empty area of the desktop or choose 'Display' from the Control Panel. You can also change the settings from the Display Properties dialog. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Uninstalling the program: Should you decide to delete this program, simply delete the files 'Mountain Terrain.scr' and 'ScrPlus.hlp' from your hard drive. The program also creates the following keys in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER // Software // KalCigar HKEY_CURRENT_USER // Software // KalCigar // Mountain You may freely delete these keys, using Regedit.exe. Before you change anything else in your registry, be sure to back it up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- System requirements: Any computer running Windows95 or WindowsNT 4.0 or later should have no problems running the Mountain Terrain screen saver. If you do have any problems, please let me know. See 'Questions, comments, and bugs' below. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Settings: There are two ways to access the settings dialog. Either choose the button marked 'Settings' from the Display Properties 'Screen Saver' tab; or locate the 'Mountain Terrain.scr' file in the windows directory using explorer, right click on the icon, and choose 'Configure'. The Settings dialog has two pages, marked General and Options. General: The large monitor display allows you to set mouse-sensitive hot spots, to run or disable the screen saver based on mouse position. To use this option, you must have Microsoft Plus! installed on your system. If you do not, changes here will not affect anything. The Mouse Sensitivity drop-down box allows you to set how much the mouse must move to stop the screen saver. This does not require Plus! The Wait control allows you to choose how long the screen saver must run before a password is required to exit it. If you are not using passwords, this affects nothing. This does not require Plus! Options: In the Colors box there are several Radio Buttons. These control the color set the program uses to draw the mountains. In brief: Earth: Gray Mountains of Mars: Red Underwater: Blue Green Fields: Green Purple Mountains Majesty: Purple Sonar: Black and white wire-frame The Cragginess control determines how sharply the mountains slope. A high setting yields tall mountains and deep waters. Average settings are 64 for a Fine Detail set, and 32 otherwise. The Elevation control determines initial height of the mountains at the corners. This could be above or below sea-level, though, so this has less effect than you might think. The border between high elevations and low ones is fuzzy, but this control allows you to give it a nudge in the preferred direction. The Fine Detail check box allows you to set the size of the building blocks that make up the mountains. When Checked, the display will be more detailed, but slower. The Relative Water Depth check box determines whether to change the color of the water based on the depth to the first structure beneath them. The deeper it is, the darker the water gets. When Off, the water remains a solid color throughout. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions, Comments, Bugs? If you have anything to say, please do so. My email address is: baren@ix.netcom.com I'd be particularly interested in any bugs you may come across. But my email box is also open to any glowing praise or suggestions for future versions you care to share with me. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution: This program is Freeware. As such, you may distribute it to as many people or machines as you choose, just so long as this document goes with it. I would prefer if you were to distribute it in its original format (i.e. the Zip file). However, this program is not Public Domain. The Kalamazoo Cigar Company maintains the copyright, and all rights associated with it. You may not charge to distribute this program. If you wish to distribute it on a BBS or a commercially available CD-ROM, or other medium, please contact me. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Version info: This is officially version 2.01 of the Mountain Terrain screen saver. There are no known bugs in this release. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you very much for trying out this program. Eventually, there will be other program I have written on my home page, when Netcom finally gets their upload capability off the ground. When that happens, my web page will be: http:\\www.netcom.com\~baren\ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Windows 95 includes a built in screen capture utility. If any display particularly tickles your fancy, you can keep it by pressing the Print Screen key. This will copy it in bitmap format to the clipboard. Then, run the MS Paint program (or other graphics utility) and Paste. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.C. Barentyne -- Kalamazoo Cigar Company 1/20/97