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- MaxonMAGIC
- ==========
-
- · Animated Screenblanker
- · Many different effects
- · Crazy soundprogram
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- MaxonMAGIC is a completely new and unique program, which will
- make your Amiga do things you never even thought of.
- When you are not working, MaxonMAGIC will entertain you with
- animated and funny screenblankers und also save your monitor
- from burning in.
- You can choose between 15 colorful effects, like an aquarium
- with lots of fishes, a flying breakfast or a melting workbench
- screen.
- But MaxonMAGIC will make even more impossible things come true:
- your Amiga will learn to talk to you. Doing certain actions, it
- will give some funny or naughty comments. Samples can be defined
- for system functions or freely definable texts, which offers
- infinite possiblities of combinations. The samples have highest
- level of quality and can be expanded by your own samples.
- MaxonMAGIC includes two disks full of samples with many
- different sounds or spoken comments, which guarentee a lot of
- variety.
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- Features
- --------
-
- · many funny screenblankers (Aquarium, Clock, Crazy Worms,
- Eyes, Fireworks, Flying Breakfast, Lissajous, Messages,
- Password, Plasma, Rain, Spots, Stars, WBJoke, WipeOut)
- · the screenblankers can be combined with samples or songs
- · Samples can be defined for keys, alerts, filerequester,
- autorequester, opening/closing of sceens and windows,
- mouseclicks and changing of disks
- · Samples can be played at certain times, at starting of
- certain programms and at output of free definable texts
- · Samples can be held in RAM or be loaded from (hard)-disk and
- also be played at random
- · runs on any Amiga with OS 1.3 to 3.0, min 1MB RAM, ECS- or
- AA-Chipset and graphic boards
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- About this demo
- ===============
-
- · This demo of MaxonMAGIC does only include three effects:
- CrazyWorms, Eyes and WBJoke
- · The demo will say "Demo" every thirty seconds
- · Every ten seconds you will be reminded that you are working
- with the demo
- · You can't save the program's settings
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-
- Distribution
- ============
-
- This demo version of MaxonMAGIC is freely distributable. The
- complete program is commercial and available from MAXON Computer
- (currently only with German manual) for 79,- German Marks.
-
- We are still looking for distributors all over the world. Don't
- hesitate to contact us:
-
- MAXON Computer GmbH
- Industriestr. 26
- D-65760 Eschborn
- Germany
- Tel: ++49-6196-481811
- Fax: ++49-6196-41137
- E-Mail: postmaster@maxon.adsp.sub.org
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-
- Short manual
- ============
-
- Blankers
- ========
-
- After you installed and started MaxonMAGIC you can pop up its
- main window by pressing the keys <Shift-F1>. This window
- contains all settings. The left side shows the available
- effects, the right side the different options for the selected
- effect. The buttons "Global", "HotKey" and "Modul" switch
- between the fololowing options:
-
- Global
- ------
-
- Time: The time in minutes and seconds after which the
- blanker is activated
- Volume: The volume samples are played with
- Pri: The priority MaxonMAGIC gets in multitasking
- Mouse: For mouse acceleration
- CPU idle: You can define how much CPU time has to be available
- for the effect to be started. This is useful if the
- is busy working (e.g. a raytracer). In this case
- MaxonMAGIC will only open a black screen which
- won't need any CPU time at all.
-
-
- Hotkey
- ------
-
- You can define the hotkeys for the main window and for
- activation of the blanker. Examples are "SHIFT F1", "ALT F3"
- or "CTRL SHIFT 1".
- The cycle-gadget "Mouse" lets you choose at which position
- the mouse pointer is activating the blanker (e.g. top left).
-
- Module
- ------
-
- This lets you change the settings for the active effect, like
- number of objects or speed.
- Every effect has two stringgadgets for defining a FTM-song
- or sample, which are played while the effect works.
-
-
- The gadget "Demo" lets you preview the effect with the actual
- settings.
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- Audio
- =====
-
- The gadget "Audio" brings you into a new part of MaxonMAGIC
- which allows you to define samples for certain system functions
- and actions.
-
- The left side shows the available actions, the right one shows
- the available samples.
-
- The left hand cycle-gadget lets you select one of three modes
- which define how a sample shall be handled if there is another
- one already playing:
- Next sample waits, Next sample cancels, Ignore next sample
-
- The two cycle-gadgets below the list of samples let you switch
- samples on or off and choose if a sample shall be loaded from
- disk if needed or kept in RAM all the time.
-
-
- Events
- ------
-
- MaxonMAGIC offers you a lot of events samples can be defined for.
- The five Gadgets "Actions", "Keys", "Program", "Texts" and "Time"
- switch between different groups of events.
-
- Actions:
- You can define samples for the system events
- Alert, ASL-Requester, Auto Requester, Close Screen, Close Window,
- Disk inserted/removed, Left Mousebutton, Open Screen, Open Window,
- Right Mousebutton
-
- Keys:
- Samples can be defined for different groups of keys. The samples
- should not be loaded from disk but be kept in RAM.
-
- Program:
- The list of events will be empty first. You now have to define
- programs you work with. When starting one of these programs
- the defined sample will be played.
- Simply type in the file name of the program in the string-gadget.
- If don't remember the correct name use the file requester by
- clicking on the left gadget. After pressing of Return or selecting
- "Load" in the file requester the program's name is added to the
- list above.
-
- Texts:
- This part is very similar to the program-part. It lets you define
- samples for any sort of texts. The sample is played when the text
- is printed by a program or the system itself.
- Select the N-gadget, type in the text and press Return. The text
- will be added to the list above. The sample will also be played if
- your text is only part of a printed string. Also it is not case
- sensitive.
-
- Time:
- You can define samples for certain times. The list offers every hour
- from 1 to 24 (1 am to 12 pm), every hour and quarters of a hour.
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