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Screen Saver Construction Set is a sophisticated platform upon which to build free-standing, distributable multimedia screen savers. It will let you combine graphics, text, sounds and your own custom-written applets.

Screen Saver Construction Set Professional is shareware. We invite you to try it out before you pay for it. Shareware evaluation copies of Screen Saver Construction Set Professional are not crippled - you will be able to check out everything it does.

If you like Screen Saver Construction Set, please register it. The registration fee for this software is $30.00 (US) - plus $5.00 shipping if you'd like a copy sent to you on CD-ROM. Complete ordering information is included in this documentation. See the Terms, Conditions and Legal Dogma document included with this software for the fine print, such as it is.

Registered users of Screen Saver Construction Set are entitled to phone support, notification of upgrades and good karma.

Visit our web page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html for the latest versions of GIF Construction Set Professional and all the other Alchemy Mindworks shareware.

Add your e-mail address to the e-mail update list at our web page to be notified of new features of this software as they're released.

Please share this package with your friends and upload it to any bulletin boards and other online media you feel are worthy of it. However, when sharing Screen Saver Construction Set, please distribute the whole, unmodified package. Thanks...


NOTE: Should you fail to support this program and continue to use it, a leather-winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that.




Available on CD-ROM


You can have your registered copy of this application shipped to you on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also includes shareware evaluation copies of all our other applications, a library of useful Frequently Asked Questions documents, example graphics from our graphic CD-ROM collections, a gallery of web graphics and a library of fifty royalty-free high resolution colour photographs courtesy of IMS Communications.

The availability and contents of the CD-ROM are subject to change without notice – the lawyers made us say that.

Screen Saver Construction Set is not available on floppy disks.



Order On Line


You can order on line at our web page https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html or visit our main page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html and click on any of the blue key icons, shown here, to access the secure server.



Order by Phone


Call our toll-free order desk at 1-800-263-1138 from Canada and the United States. Call 0800-89-7355 from Great Britain. Call 1-800-554-082 from Australia. Callers from other countries can reach the order desk at 1-905-936-9500. The order desk is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.


NOTE: The order desk only takes credit card orders. They cannot provide you with order status, modify or cancel previously submitted orders, provide product information or help you out with technical support. They cannot transfer you to someone who can. See the section of the Registration document on Contacting Alchemy Mindworks if you need to get in touch with us for something other than ordering.




Order by FAX


You can FAX your order to 1-905-936-9502. Please use the order form included with this software. Note that because the order form is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.



Order by Snail-mail


You can mail your order to:

Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
P.O. Box 500
Beeton, Ontario
L0G 1A0
CANADA

Please use the order form included with this software.

If you're paying by a cheque drawn on a bank outside North America, please be sure to make your cheque payable in US dollars. Your cheque must have the address of a North American clearing office and a bank transit number printed on it. Please do not send us Eurocheques - they cannot be cleared outside Europe.

Note that when you send us your order - and then when we send you your software - two distinct post offices get to deal with the ensuing mail. It can take a few weeks for things to get through this system - we ask that you be patient. We don't fully understand why it takes less time for a package to get to Australia than it does to send one to Cleveland. Some things are best left as mysteries.



Paying by Plastic


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Documentation


Screen Saver Construction Set is a large, sophisticated application with quite a bit of documentation. It has been structured to help you use the software now and look up whatever you need to know as you learn more about Screen Saver Construction Set.

Introduction and Tutorial: This is a step by step walk-though of the most popular features of Screen Saver Construction Set. It will get you up to speed building screen savers. If you read nothing else, read this.

Reference: This is an extensive encyclopedic reference for all the functionality of Screen Saver Construction Set.

ANIMAL Language Reference: This is a complete language reference and tutorial for the ANIMAL language used to write applets under Screen Saver Construction Set.

Introduction to Graphic Files: This is a quick introduction to the dark and awesome mysteries of graphic files and the uses to which they're commonly put.

Contacting Alchemy Mindworks, Technical Support and Registering Screen Saver Construction Set: This is a complete list of media through which you can get in touch with us, and all the relevant dogma about registering this software.

Order Form (ORDER.DOC): This is an order form for use if you'd like to register Screen Saver Construction Set by FAX or snail-mail. It also lists all our other ordering options. Note that because the order form is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.

Other Software: This is a complete description of all the current Alchemy Mindworks shareware.

Drivers: This document explains Windows screen drivers and includes a step by step guide to upgrading your Windows screen driver to get the most out of Screen Saver Construction Set - and most other Windows applications.

Terms, Conditions and Legal Dogma: These are the terms and conditions under which Screen Saver Construction Set may be used and registered. There's nothing really nasty herein, but the lawyers made us say it all anyway.

Bundling Screen Saver Construction Set with Books and Other Products: This is an outline of our policies regarding including Screen Saver Construction Set with third party products.

Bug Report (BUGREPRT.DOC): Please complete this form if you encounter problems with Screen Saver Construction Set. Note that because the bug report form is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.

This document and all the other documentation included with Screen Saver Construction Set is copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Alchemy Mindworks Inc. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part or transmitted in any form save as a component part of the Screen Saver Construction Set software without the explicit written permission of the copyright holder. Unauthorized use of this document or any portion thereof may result in severe criminal and civil penalties. Alchemy Mindworks Inc. accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or expense caused by your use of the information in this document, however it occurs.