Electric ! 1.2 Screen Saver for Windows 95 and Windows NT ----------------------------------------------------- 1 License, disclaimer ... ------------------------- This program is ABSOLUTE FREEWARE. You have nothing to pay to me. This program comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY, more especially not any warranty about saving anything... 2 Installation -------------- Just copy the file "electric.scr" to your \windows\system (95) or \windows\system32 (NT) directory and choose "electric" from the control panel. 3 Bug reports, etc... --------------------- If you have a bug to report, a suggestion to do, or if you just want to tell me how it changed your life, you may email me at : JX Bardant bardant@club-internet.fr If you want to get more information about _Electric !_, or if you want to get the last release, check the _Electric !_ home page at : http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1140/electric.html 4 What's new in version 1.2 ---------------------------- *Added : DirectX support for color mode switching under Windows 95. Does not work properly under Windows NT 4.0. Not supported under older versions of NT. *Added : Ability to change the animation speed. *Added : Ability to choose color palettes. *Added : Full screen preview allowing to change options 'on the fly'. *Fixed : Screen scan option of the McAffee anti-virus stops the screen saver. 5 What was new in version 1.1 --------------------------- * Added : configuration possibilities with a preview window, so that you can see at once what the screens will look like * Added : ability to ignore mouse movements * Corrected bugs in 256 colors mode : 1) too fast animation when the multimedia player is in the background ; 2) incorrect colors after the saver stops * Improved : smoother color palette in 256 colors mode 6 Known bugs ------------ 16 colors mode : * The result is just TERRIBLE. If I were you, I'd just use another resolution... 256 colors mode : * I was told that this program exerts a strange fascination on CATS. Well, since I've got none, I can only repeat what I heard. But if your tom goes nuts, just don't tell me you haven't been warned... 65536 (and more) colors : * The image is smooth, but it's not animated. Color cycling is a hardware feature not supported in those modes. With DirectX *Using the DirectX option may cause a crash under Windows NT 4.0. So do not use it. *The McAffee screen-scan option may cause the color mode to switch back to the default. I have still to figure out how to fix this. With Windows NT *The 'ignore mouse moves' option does not work properly on NT 4.0. *Configuration dialog box is slow under NT 3.51. *Configuration dialog box does not work under Windows NT 3.1 - 3.5. 7 What's cooking for future releases... --------------------------------------- *Some graphical effects that were kindly submitted by Harold McMahon. *Cooler color palettes (lots of work to do!) *Maybe sounds...