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- 02-08-'93
- Rotterdam
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- Worms v1.0
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- While I was working in a computer-store I noticed that people who know
- nothing about Amiga's are very capable at distroying complex animations,
- pretty icon-positions, preferences, harddisk contents, ect., so I thought
- I'd make a screenblanker/inputblocker: "Worms".
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- Most blankers open a Lores screen in front of all others, and close the
- screen when mouse or keyboard are touched. If you work with a DBL screen,
- or something else with a different refresh-rate, this will change that
- rate and the monitor will go "Phhiiooow" twice. I don't like that.
- Also, I don't like it when a blanker automaticly blanks after a certain
- amount of time, probably when I'm enjoying a great picture or so, so I
- thought I'd leave that out.
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- WORMS:
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- - Opens a screen in (almost) the same mode as the frontmost screen, but
- with only two planes. It doesn't have to be HIRES, Worms can be forced
- to open a LORES screen with the same monitor-specs. Use the "MODE=LOW"
- tooltype.
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- - Will block all input completely (while blanking), except for the RESET-
- combination. If you place Worms in the WBStartup directory, set the
- "AUTOSTART" tooltype and the priority of your boot-partition to "6", no
- person can change anything anymore: Worms will blank and block directly
- after startup and until someone presses the unblank key-combination.
-
- - Will blank only on command Ctrl+LShift. The unblank combination can
- be changed. By default the Ctrl-LAlt will do, but a third key (any key)
- can be added with the "KEY=rawnr" tooltype. The default is "-1" (off).
-
- - Runs with a lower priority (-1) than other programs so blanking while the
- Amiga is busy rendering or printing won't give a problem.
-
- - Can only be started from Workbench (2.0+).
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- TOOLTYPES:
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- --- KEY=rawnr
- The unblank key-combination is Ctrl+LAlt. A third key can be added to make
- sure no one else can unblank (and mess up) the Amiga. To do this you must
- know the RAWKEY codes of the keyboard. Here are some (QWERTY): Esc=69,
- F1-F10=80-89, 1-0=1-10, -=11, ==12, \=13, <-=65, Del=70, Help=95, ~=0,
- tab=66, Q=16, W=17, A=32, S=33, ect. Valid are numbers between -1 and 127.
-
- --- MODE=LOW
- This forces Worms to open a lores screen with the same monitor-specs. At
- this moment there are no other modes to select; LOW is all. The default
- is the same (high) resolution as the frontmost screen.
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- --- AUTOSTART
- This will make Worms blank&block directly after the program starts. Make
- sure you know the key-combination to unblank, or you'll have to boot with
- a floppydisk!
-
- --- NOMESSAGE
- Every time you start Worms it opens a small window to show the key-com-
- binations and the copyright. If you've seen enough of it you can suppress
- the window with NOMESSAGE. If you make a copy for someone else ALWAYS
- remove this tooltype... they will find these words themselves, once, and
- need to learn the key-combinations.
-
- --- WORMS=nn
- The number of creatures that may molest your monitor... the faster your
- computer, the more you choose. WORMS=0 is permitted: a boaring and
- continious black screen with almost no processor-time used will be the
- result. The maximum number of worms is 100, the default is 30, that
- looks nice on my 68030 (40 Mhz). Only a A4000/40 should set this to
- the maximum of 100 ? Well, you can try!
-
- --- CYCLES=n
- The worms eat black. Behind it there seems to be a weird pattern but
- they hardly ever finish their meal... You can tell Worms exactly how
- many times the worms can eat as many pixels as the screen counts before
- they get a fresh screen. This depends on your taste and curiosity.
- The default is 4.
-
- Important: If you change the tooltypes, QUIT (Ctrl+RAlt) Worms and start
- it again to see the result!!!
- And: You can only Quit Worms while it's NOT blanking!
-
- -------------------- I hope you like the worms as much as I do, have fun!
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- Don't take public-domain software for granted... if it's worth something,
- pay something! Commercial software would have been far more expensive!
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- If you can afford to support my work by sending me some money
- (+/- US$ 40,-) you will receive the latest versions of _ALL_
- the PD programs I made for the Amiga, including the source of
- "Worms".
- I will send them to you _twice_, once directly after I received
- your letter and once after the time or update you choose.
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- The disk(s) will include:
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- Replex, Undelete, Spots(2), Magnum24, Lynx, MCAnim, Worms,
- MandAnim, RXShow, WBPat, Delta24, Parking, Faster!, AmigaMind,
- ChangeMode, ScreenModeReq, and all the programs I forgot here
- and the ones I most certainly will be making in the future...
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- Ekke Verheul
- Rozenlaan 123 b
- 3051 LP Rotterdam
- Holland
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