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Desert Frog Screen Scenes v3.4 for DOS
Table of Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 NEW FEATURES
2.0 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3.0 INSTALLATION
3.1 ADDING SCREEN SCENES TO YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
4.0 USING SCREEN SCENES v3.4 FOR DOS
4.1 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
4.2 HOTKEYS
4.2.1 CREATING CUSTOM HOTKEYS
4.3 MENU OPTIONS
5.0 TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE
6.0 THE SCENES OF SCREEN SCENES v3.4
7.0 CHANGES SINCE v3.0
8.0 HOW TO CONTACT US
9.0 CUSTOM PROGRAMMING
10.0 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
11.0 OTHER DESERT FROG PRODUCTS
11.1 FRACTAL MANIA
11.2 SHOWLOGO
12.0 REGISTRATION AND SITE LICENSES
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Desert Frog Screen Scenes v3.4 for DOS (Screen Scenes) is
the latest in a line of sophisticated DOS screen savers from
Desert Frog Software. Unlike most other DOS screen savers,
Screen Scenes does something fun when it blanks the screen.
Screen Scenes provides 29 (16 if you don't have a VGA
system) different scenes for your enjoyment. The wide range
of scenes includes a kaleidoscope, an aquarium full of Crazy
Fish, the long-awaited hopping frog scene and a set of wild
256-color palette-animated fractals!
Screen Scenes v3.4 is easy to control and customize. Each
scene can be enabled, disabled or demonstrated individually.
The length of time to delay before popping up can be set to
between 1 and 60 minutes. All the scenes can be password
protected, preventing unauthorized use of your PC. You can
leave multi-line messages on the screen or hit the "instant-
on" key if the boss walks by at an inconvenient time.
Screen Scenes looks at the keyboard, mouse and printer to
decide when it should pop up. This means that it will not
pop up when you are entering data or printing.
1.1 NEW FEATURES
The following new features have been added to Desert Frog
Screen Scenes since version 3.0.
1) Microsoft Windows detection. Prevents interference
with Windows by not popping up when Windows is active.
2) Super VGA mode blanking. Screen Scenes now detects
when the system is in a Super VGA mode and blanks the
screen. Password protection is not active when the
screen is blanked, but the video display is restored
properly.
3) Improved display handling. Screen Scenes v3.4 corrects
many minor screen-handling problems that appeared in
earlier versions. It will correctly handle custom
fonts that other screen savers can't!
4) Corrected printer handling. A bug fix ensures that print
jobs will not be interrupted.
5) VGA video forcing. The user can force Screen Scenes to
run in VGA mode. Screen Scenes cannot always detect
that you have a VGA video system. Using this command
line option forces Screen Scenes to run in VGA. DO NOT
use this command if you do not have a VGA video system.
6) A better value. Now when you register Screen Scenes you
receive 20 additional fractal scenes at no additional
charge.
2.0 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Desert Frog Screen Scenes for DOS v3.4 requires a hard disk
and a color CGA, EGA or VGA video card and monitor.
Grayscale VGA monitors are also supported. Expanded memory
is recommended but not required. The program works with DOS
versions 2.0 to 6.2 and is compatible with Microsoft and
Logitech mice. OS/2 and Geoworks are NOT supported (see
below for coexistence with unsupported programs).
Screen Scenes requires 420K of available RAM during
installation and removal from memory. Screen Scenes also
requires 1,750K of space on your hard disk or 1,000K on your
hard disk and 830K available EMS memory. Screen Scenes
occupies less than 7K of RAM when waiting to pop up.
3.0 INSTALLATION
Screen Scenes is easy to install. Copy the file SS34D.EXE
from the distribution disk onto your hard disk. Once
SS34D.EXE is copied to the hard disk, log into the directory
containing it and run SS34D. SS34D.EXE is actually a self-
extracting archive created using LHA.EXE v2.13, a freeware
archiving package. When you run SS34D it extracts all the
files which make up Screen Scenes. Once you have run
SS34D.EXE you can delete it from your hard disk.
The following set of commands creates a directory called
DFSS on the C: drive, copies SS34D.EXE into this directory
from the distribution disk in the A: drive, extracts all the
Screen Scenes files and deletes SS34D.EXE from the C:\DFSS
directory:
C:
MD DFSS
CD DFSS
COPY A:\SS34D.EXE
SS34D
DEL SS34D.EXE
The Screen Scenes program itself is called SCRSCENE.EXE. To
run it enter the path and file name as shown below (assuming
that Screen Scenes is installed in a directory called DFSS
on your C: drive):
C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE
Using the full path as shown above guarantees that Screen
Scenes can find it's files when trying to pop up.
3.1 ADDING SCREEN SCENES TO YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
The best way to use Screen Scenes is to add it to your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This file is basically a list of
commands that are performed each time you turn on your PC.
By adding Screen Scenes to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you will
save yourself from having to run it manually.
Screen Scenes should be loaded after any network drivers or
communication programs or other programs that receive real-
time messages. Screen Scenes should also be loaded after
multitasking software like DesqView or OmniView. Finally,
Screen Scenes should be loaded before any DOS Shell or menu
programs.
As an example, assume you have installed Screen Scenes in
the C:\DFSS directory. You would then add the following
line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE
Do NOT add this line to your PATH statement. It should be a
separate line.
Using the full path as shown above guarantees that Screen
Scenes can find it's files when trying to pop up.
The next time you reboot or power up the system, Screen
Scenes will be automatically loaded and ready to save your
screen.
4.0 USING SCREEN SCENES FOR DOS v3.4
Screen Scenes has a wealth of options, allowing you to
customize the program for your system and personal style.
When