If you have any other screen saver products loaded and running, disable them and/or turn them off before running Mighty Morphin Power Rangers¬ (MMPR) Screen Saver.
Install
You can choose to run the MMPR Screen Saver from the CD-ROM or from your hard drive.
To run the program directly from the CD-ROM, follow these instructions:
1. Insert the MMPR Screen Saver CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and double-click the MMPR Screen Saver icon.
2. Open (double-click) the MMPR Screen Saver application.
3. Choose Install Screen Saver from the File menu (upper left corner of your screen). This will place an alias in the Startup Folder within your System Folder which will look for the Screen Saver on the CD.
To run the entire program from your hard drive, follow these instructions:
1. Open (double-click) your hard drive icon.
2. Choose New Folder from the File menu.
3. Name the folder MMPR Screen Saver.
4. Insert the MMPR Screen Saver CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and double-click the MMPR Screen Saver icon.
5. Select the Screen Saver icon and drag it to the new folder on your hard drive.
6. Select the Faders folder and drag it to the new folder on your hard drive.
7. Open the Screen Saver application on your hard drive and choose Install Screen Saver from the File menu.
8. Eject the MMPR Screen Saver CD-ROM.
If you do not have sufficient room on your hard drive for all the images (37.4 MB), you can install a subset of the images:
1. Follow steps 1-5 in the preceding instructions for running the entire program from your hard drive.
2. Create a new folder named Faders inside the MMPR Screen Saver folder on your hard drive.
3. Open the Faders folder on the CD-ROM.
4. Drag the Pict Fader icon from the CD-ROM to the Faders folder on your hard drive.
5. Create a new folder named Image Folder inside the Faders folder on your hard drive.
6. Open the Image Folder within the Faders folder on the CD-ROM and copy as many of the images as you would like to the Image Folder on your hard drive.
7. Open the Screen Saver application on your hard drive and choose Install Screen Saver from the File menu.
8. Eject the MMPR Screen Saver CD-ROM.
Your MMPR Screen Saver is now installed. Enjoy!
To remove the MMPR Screen Saver:
1. If you have copied Screen Saver images to your hard drive, select the MMPR Screen Saver folder on your hard drive.
2. Drag the folder to the Trash on your desktop.
3. Open your System Folder by double clicking on it or choosing Open from the file menu.
4. Double-click the Startup Items folder within your System Folder.
5. Select the Screen Saver alias.
6. Drag the alias to the Trash on your desktop.
7. Choose Empty Trash from the Special menu.
8. Restart your computer to let the changes to your System Folder take effect.
Transitions
You can pick the types of transitions you would like by choosing User Settings╔ from the File menu. The number of available transitions will depend on your Monitors Control Panel setting. All transitions are available when running in 256 colors mode. The options are:
NO TRANSITIONS ╤ Each screen goes to black between images with no special effects on individual images.
BLOCK TRANSITION ╤ Blacks out squares of the image at random; brings in next image in random squares.
LINE TRANSITION ╤ Black lines move in from all sides (screen effect) to the middle of the screen, then widen back out to erase the image.
RECTANGLE TRANSITION ╤ Shrinks image from all sides, then opens back up with a new image.
CIRCLE TRANSITION ╤ Telescopes into the center of the screen then back out to new images, as above, but in a circle rather than a rectangle.
CURTAIN TRANSITION ╤ Vertical close to the center which opens on a new image.
SHUTTER TRANSITION ╤ Horizontal close to the center which opens on a new image.
SHRINK TRANSITION ╤ An overlay of smaller and smaller images, which open back out as a new image.
PALETTE ANIMATION TRANSITION ╤ Image posterizes between several color palettes, providing a flashing effect.
BLACK TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes color by color to black with a small amount of white.
POSTERIZE TRANSITION ╤ Posterizes various colors as it slowly removes all color from the image, ending with black and white.
GRAYSCALE TRANSITION ╤ Slowly replaces colors with appropriate shades of gray for a black and white photo effect.
RED TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes to red with black and white highlights.
GREEN TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes to green with black and white highlights.
BLUE TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes to blue with black and white highlights.
YELLOW TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes to yellow with black and white highlights.
CYAN TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes to cyan with black and white highlights.
MAGENTA TRANSITION ╤ Slowly posterizes to magenta with black and white highlights.
Trouble Shooting
To ensure proper operation of your screen saver, please make sure that any folders you create on your hard drive are named exactly as they are written in the installation instructions. Also, the Pict Fader application and the Image Folder must remain together in the same folder to work correctly.
