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EXPLOSIV JUNIOR - GRAPHICS SCREEN SAVER - VERSION 1.0 Reidar Gresseth and Chris Hook P.O. Box 3013 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3X5 Canada Explosiv Jr copyright (c) Reidar Gresseth & Chris Hook 1992. Explosiv junior is a shareware program and is not free. You may use this software for a limited period not to exceed one month after which time you must register the program. Also, you must purchase a separate licence for each terminal or workstation on which you wish to use this software. If you continue to use this program then a payment of $10.00 US is expected. This program is distributed as-is with no restriction on its use or functionality. Registration allows you to legally continue using the software after the evaluation period. All payments and/or enquires for this program should be sent to : Hook and Gresseth P.O. Box 3013 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3X5 Canada Explosiv jr is based upon the Explosiv screen saver, the latter features 15 additional displays ( including several beautiful fractal pattern generators ), a full screen interface and an equivalent Windows 3 version. See the end of this file for more details. DISCLAIMER: Explosiv Jr is offered on an as-is-basis without any guarantee as to the correct functioning or fitness for specific purpose. The authors believe this program to work as described but the program is used at your own risk. The authors will not be responsible for any hardware or software damage, loss of data, or incidental or consequential damage that may result from its use, whether or not such use is in accordance with the instructions. RUNNING EXPLOSIV JR FOR WINDOWS : To run Explosiv Jr in MS Windows 3, copy the files WXJ.EXE, WXJ.INI and WXL.DLL to some directory on your computer. Then, if you want Explosiv Jr to start up every time you start windows, just add the path name along with WXJ.EXE to the load= line at the beggining of your WIN.INI file in your windows directory. (e.g., copy the three Explosiv Jr files to C:\BIN\SS. Then add C:\BIN\SS\WXJ.EXE to the load= line in the WIN.INI file, such as, load=C:\BIN\SS\WXJ.EXE ) This can be done with any ASCII editor (for example, EDIT, the editor that comes with DOS 5). To install Explosiv Jr for Windows into a windows group, start windows up, click on the group of your choice and then pull down the Files option menu from the Windows Program Manger's menu bar and select New. Choose a new Item to add, the give it a name (Explosiv Jr) and the executable name, (as in our example) C:\BIN\SS\WXJ.EXE. Thats it! Once invoked, Explosiv Jr for Windows can be altered by clicking on the Explosiv Jr Icon and choosing the setup menu item. A dialog box will appear, allowing you to select how long a wait of inactivity (in minutes) Explosiv Jr waits to start, whether or not you want it to start at all, and whether you want the screen saver to be a fireworks show or just a screen blanker (the screen blanker is good for doing large file transfers over a communications line such as over a phone modem). More advanced features can be accessed by selecting the Options... button. From here, you may select any corner on the screen to turn Explosiv Jr instantly on and another corner to turn it always off. Also, you can speed up or slow down the fireworks by changing the Delay Rate and increase or decrease the number of simultaneous explosions by altering the # of Objects selection. Finally, by clicking on the Password... button you can set a password which will not allow Explosiv Jr to turn off unless an appropriate password is entered. This is especially useful in confidential office situations. To invoke, enter a password in the New Password box (Maximum of 9 charaters in length) and then enter it again in the Confirm Password Box. Now Click the Accept button. If you did this correctly, the Accept button will say Success. If you made a mistake, the button will say Failure. Just start all over again. To change an existing password, enter the old password in the Old Password Box, and the enter a new password as outlined above. RUNNING EXPLOSIV JR FOR DOS: Explosiv Jr is a screen saving utility which prevents pixel burn-in on your computer display. Rather than simply turning the screen off while the computer is running, Explosiv Jr displays an always moving fireworks show. As a benefit, you never need wonder as to whether your computer is turned on or off ( a typical problem with simple screen blankers ), and you may even find the fireworks display to be somewhat enjoyable. This program will not become a memory resident screen saver until the m<n> command line option is invoked. Without this option set, Explosiv Jr will simply be an amusing, but temporary display of fireworks. To install explosiv Jr as a screen saver you must use the m<n> option. For example, if you wish explosiv Jr to wait 5 minutes before screen saving run the command explosiv m5 If, in addition, you wish explosiv Jr to save any user-defined fonts then run the command explosiv m5 fonts To have explosiv Jr run automatically when you boot your computer you can simply copy one of these lines into your autoexec.bat. Once memory resident, explosiv Jr can be activated immediately by pressing the Ctrl-Alt-Shift keys simultaneously. Explosiv Jr can be disabled by pressing Ctrl-Alt-E and re-enabled by pressing Ctrl-Alt-B. You should disable explosiv Jr if your Hercules monitor is in graphics mode since no reliable method exists for detecting which mode the Hercules card is in ( as an alternative you can use the +on and -on options ). OPTIONS : The following command line options can be used to configure explosiv jr on your computer : b<n> By default, pressing Ctrl-Alt-B will enable the resident version of explosiv jr. Use b<n> to change this hot key with n = 1 to 26. For example, b1 will change the hot key to Ctrl-Alt-A and b25 will change the hot key to Ctrl-Alt-Y. cga If explosiv jr does not properly detect your CGA monitor then use this switch to force the screen saver into CGA mode. color Use this switch to force explosiv jr to display the fireworks in color. default This option can be used to reset the fireworks speed to the default value. d<n> Use n = 1 to 255 to set the speed that the fireworks move. For example, d1 will result in the fastest possible motion while d255 will give the slowest. ega If explosiv jr does not properly detect your EGA monitor then use this switch to force the screen saver into EGA mode. e<n> Use n = 1 to 9 to set the number of explosions that you wish to have simultaneously run. For example, n1 will result in one single explosion. fonts This option can be used only on a VGA monitor and requires an additional 4K bytes of memory. This will save any user defined fonts that, for instance, some word processors might use. herc If explosiv jr does not properly detect your HERC monitor then use this switch to force the screen saver into HERC mode. mcga If explosiv jr does not properly detect your MCGA monitor then use this switch to force the screen saver into MCGA mode. mono Use this switch to force explosiv jr to display the fireworks in monochrome. m<n> This option must be specified if you wish explosiv jr to become a screen saver. Use n = 1 to 30 to specify the number of minutes of inactivity that explosiv jr should wait before saving the screen. new The new option is used to tell explosiv jr that the remaining arguments should be sent to any resident versions of explosiv jr. For example, if you wish to change the delay factor of a resident version of the screen saver to 50 then run the command "explosjr new d50". off Use this option to disable the screen saver without removing it from memory. on Use this option to enable the screen saver after it has been disabled. For hercules monitors this option tells explosiv jr to restore the screen to text mode. For other monitors, explosiv jr will blank the screen when the monitor is in graphics mode and run the fireworks when the monitor is in text mode. +on Use this option to enable the screen saver after it has been disabled. For hercules monitors this option tells explosiv jr to restore the screen to graphics mode ( page 0 ). For other monitors, explosiv jr will run the fireworks when the monitor is in text mode and do nothing in graphics modes. -on Use this option to enable the screen saver after it has been disabled. For hercules monitors this option tells explosiv jr to restore the screen to graphics mode ( page 1 ). For other monitors, explosiv jr will always blank the screen. remove This option can be used to remove explosiv jr from memory. You may not be able to do this if you have any other memory resident programs installed above explosiv jr. small By default, explosiv jr will reserve additional memory for EGA and VGA monitors when it starts so that it will be able to properly save the state for 43 and 50 line modes. Use this option to disable this feature ( reduces memory requirements by 4K bytes ). s<n> By default, pressing Ctrl-Alt-E will disable resident version of explosiv jr. Use s<n> to change this hot key with n = 1 to 26. For example, s3 will change the hot key to Ctrl-Alt-C and s26 will change the hot key to Ctrl-Alt-Z. vga If explosiv jr does not properly detect your VGA monitor then use this switch to force the screen saver into VGA mode. +video With this option, explosiv jr will consider any output to the screen as activity. That is, it will reset its counter each time a character is put on the screen. -video With this option explosiv jr will not consider any output to the screen as activity. If you have a memory resident clock then use this option to prevent the clock from resetting the explosiv jr timer. NOTES : - Explosiv Jr requires that you have a graphics card. It will work with Hercules, CGA, MCGA, EGA and VGA. It will not work on an MDA monitor. - Explosiv Jr detects the presence of Windows 3.0 standard and enhanced modes and will not run ( it won't even blank the screen ). In this case, you must use a Windows screen saver ( such as the one available with explosiv 2.0 ). - If you run into problems using Explosiv Jr with another memory resident program then you can use debug.com to change the multiplex number that Explosiv Jr uses. The multiplex number is a signal used by a program to determine if it is already installed. If two programs use the same number then there will be some sort of conflict. The value at offset 4 of explosjr.com is the multiplex number used by Explosiv Jr. This should be a number between 192 and 201 ( in hexadecimal this is C0 to C9 ). ORDERING INFORMATION FOR EXPLOSIV : The full version of Explosiv has many features that are not available in Explosiv Jr. Some additional features in the full version are - A total of 16 displays, including several beautiful fractal displays. - An equivalent Windows 3.0 screen saver. - A full screen interface and install program for both DOS and Windows. The unit registration fee for Explosiv version 2.0 is $20.00 US. Explosiv version 2.0 is available on one 3 1/2 inch disk or two 5 1/4 inch diskettes. To order Explosiv version 2.0 send your check and preference of disk type to Hook and Gresseth P.O. Box 3013 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3X5 Canada If you wish to licence Explosiv on a large number of machines we offer considerable savings for site licences. The rate is on a per unit basis as outlined below QUANTITY ORDERED PRICE PER UNIT ------------------------------------------------------- 1-24 $20.00 U.S. 25-99 $17.50 U.S. 100-299 $15.00 U.S. 300-999 $12.50 U.S. 1000+ $10.00 U.S. Unless otherwise requested, an order for multiple copies of explosiv will not be sent 1 disk per licence. Instead, a smaller number of master disks will be sent which can be used to install the program on all machines. We do not offer any discount scheme if you wish to have 1 disk per licence sent to you. In this case, you must pay the full $20.00 per unit price.