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- Midnight® Screen Blanking System
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- ©1994 Imagine Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Engineered by Trevor Andrews
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- Imagine Software, Inc.
- 1218 South 5th Street
- Lafayetee, IN 47905-1716
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- Preface of the Midnight Screen Blanking System
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- VERSION
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- Version 0 Revision 07
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- AUTHOR
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- Trevor N. Andrews
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- DESCRIPTION
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- Midnight is a modular screen blanking system designed
- with AmigaDOS 2.x/3.x in mind. A few of its features
- are listed below:
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- - Screen Mode selection (AGA support) in most modules
- - Standard 2.x Preferences interface
- - Font sensitive window
- - Enforcer Proof Code
- - Public screen support
- - GadTools interface
- - IFF Preference file
- - Seperate Dameon and GUI
- - Amiga Guide support (library is optional)
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- Currently, the following blanker modules are available:
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- - Nightfall (Simple black screen)
- - Rainbow (Bouncing lines with 256 colours in AGA)
- - Shuffle (Slides selectable pieces around)
- - Mindmelt *(An AfterDark inspired module)
- - PhaseFade (Fade to black)
- - Fireworks (Traditional fireworks with 256 colours in AGA)
- - Textual *(Floats text around)
- - Spotlight (Your screen has just broke out of jail)
- - IceMelt *(Screen melts like an ice cube)
- - Starfield (Prepare for space flight)
- - Random (Randomly chooses your modules)
- - Breadth (It's strange...)
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- * Not included in this pre-release.
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- Additional features include:
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- - Concise message signaling system
- - Mouse blanker (OS friendly with gameport support)
- - Random blanker selection mode
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- Installation Procedures
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- Quick -- "To see what it's like..."
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- Double click on Bprefs.
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- Double click on Midnight and set your preferences.
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- Workbench Installation:
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- Drag BPrefs to your "SYS:WBStartup" draw.
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- Drag Midnight, the preference software, to your "SYS:Prefs" draw.
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- Drag the Blankers draw to any desired location, such as "WORK:".
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- Place Midnight.guide or Midnight.reference into your desired manual draw.
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- See "Quick", above.
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- Shell Installation:
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- Users wishing to install Midnight via the command line interface should
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- be familiar with Workbench enough to translate the above procedure to
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- fit their particular needs.
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- AmigaDos Reference
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- MIDNIGHT
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- Format: MIDNIGHT [FROM <filename>] [filename]
- [EDIT] [USE] [SAVE] [PUBSCREEN <screen>]
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- Template: FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S,PUBSCREEN/K:
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- Purpose: To specify different settings for screen
- and mouse blanking.
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- Required: AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
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- Optional: AmigaGuide Library. (Recommended)
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- Path: SYS:Prefs/Midnight
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- Specification:
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- MIDNIGHT without any arguments or with the EDIT argument
- opens the Midnight editor. The FROM argument lets you specify a
- file to open. This must be a file that was previously saved with
- the "Save As" menu item of the Midnight editor. PUBSCREEN is
- used to specify an alternative screen to open on.
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- NOTE: If using saved preferences from icon, make sure Midnight is
- in your Workbench's path.
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- AmigaDos Reference
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- BPREFS
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- Format: BPREFS [QUIT] [KEY]
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- Template: QUIT/S,KEY/S (KEY is for registered users only)
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- Purpose: Daemon to implement different settings for
- screen and mouse blanking.
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- Required: AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
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- Optional: (nothing)
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- Path: SYS:WBStartup/BPrefs
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- Specification:
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- BPREFS takes as arguments QUIT and KEY (only for registered users).
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- QUIT...Forces BPrefs to shut down and exit.
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- KEY....Authentication Encryption Key report.
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- NOTE: If you change your keyboard type, you will need
- to run (reset) BPrefs!
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