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Folks:
Here it is, the new and improved WallBlaster, Freeware
Version 1.20 ! Thanx to all who've downloaded the program and your
support.
The biggest delay to the release of WB 1.2 has been an
elusive bug that was virutally impossible to find. Less than a
handful of users (about 6 out of a possible 1000+ users) have
reported that Windows crashed immediately after invoking WB 1.1.
While I've been able to come up with a fix for the problem, I'm still
trying to find the exact cause of the failure. Therefore, I've added
two new switches in the WIN.INI profile for WallBlaster.
[WallBlaster]
Bgnd=0
Quiet=1
Setting Bgnd=0 in your WIN.INI file makes WallBlaster change
the wallpaper in the foreground. This will prevent Windows from
moving parts of the system while WB is working. If you don't
explicitly set Bgnd=1, then WallBlaster will always decompress
wallpaper files in the foreground. You MUST enable background
processing by editing WIN.INI.
If you set Quiet=1, then WallBlaster won't display the
current wallpaper pathname in the program's caption. This change was
made for those who didn't like the normal caption obliterating the
captions of other applications.
Just as before WallBlaster is easy to install. Simply move
some full-screen wallpaper files to a file called WBLASTER.ZIP, put
it and WB.EXE into your Windows directory and you're finished.
Additional instructions are contained in the WallBlaster manual,
WB.TXT. This version also introduces a minor physical change, in
that the program has been split into two parts. WB.EXE is the
WallBlaster executable, while the decompression routines are
contained in a file called UNZIP.DLL. Both files MUST be in the same
sub-directory, preferably in your Windows sub-directory. It's
IMPORTANT to make sure that the old WB.EXE is deleted before
installing the new software.
WallBlaster, its DLL, and the wallpaper library can be placed
just about anywhere you'd like on your hard disk. I recommend using
the Windows sub-directory, since this will make the decompression
routines work a little faster, since the library file and the
wallpaper file will reside on the same disk. However, some of you
have already discovered that the LibraryName= profile string can be
set to something other than your Windows sub-directory.
I had originally hoped to add a separate wallpaper library,
but copyright problems make this much more trouble than it's worth,
so you're on your own to collect some wallpaper. The CORNER and
QPICS forums on CompuServe and the PHOTO conference on GENie have
contributed many of my favorite wallpaper files. Two excellent
sources for free GIFs, although sometimes hard to get to, are the
Another Dimension BBS at (703) 667-3530 in Virginia and the Grafix
BBS at (919) 443-2456 in North Carolina. The manual covers a few
additional details about how to turn .GIF files into .BMP wallpaper
files.
I believe this will be the last freeware edition for a while,
as I need to put all of WrightWorks' resources toward other pressing
matters -- ending the Gulf crisis, finding a solution to world
hunger, that sort of thing -- so I hope I've been able to cover all
of the important changes requested in the past few weeks.
Thanks again for your continued support. See you on the
bboards.
Jethro Wright, III
WrightWorks
31 Jan 91