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- Star-Struck - a new screen saver
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- Version 2.0 - Copyright Tony Sanson 1989
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- What is Star-Struck ?
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- Star-Struck is a screen saver with a difference. Instead of just blanking
- your screen after 3 minutes, it smoothly fades it to black, and then fills
- it with a repeating burst of stars exploding from a central point.
- Not only that, but the stars are in colour too (assuming you have a colour
- monitor).
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- Star-Struck will run in any resolution, and is unaffected by switching
- between low and medium resolution screens.
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- You can also call it up from the desktop, or most GEM programs, as
- described below.
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- Installing Star-Struck
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- Star-Struck is a desk accessory, so just copy into the root directory of
- your boot disk. Boot up your ST, and you will find it in the desk
- accessory menu.
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- Running Star-Struck from the desktop
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- Star-Struck can be run at any time from the desktop, or from many GEM
- programs. Just click on it's name in the desk menu, and then let
- go of the mouse within 2 seconds (if you don't stop moving the mouse,
- Star-Struck will detect the mouse movement and bring back your original
- screen immediately!). The first time you invoke Star-Struck this way,
- a little welcome message will appear - this will not appear on succeeding
- times.
- To return to your original screen, just press any key or move the mouse.
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- Star-Struck will also automatically start to run if you don't touch the
- mouse or the keyboard for 3 minutes, . Again, pressing any key or moving
- the mouse will return you to your original screen.
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- Changes from V1.3
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- Version 1.3 of Star-Struck had a bug which caused it to crash after it had
- been running for a while, due to it gradually eating up memory. This bug,
- which was due to my commenting out a line of code for testing and then
- forgetting to put it back in again for the release version (who's a silly
- boy then), has been fixed in V2.0.
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- My thanks to the Sygornaxians - that's Daron Brewood (Stun BBS),
- Julian Lewis Booth, and others - for their assistance in tracking down
- this bug, and for their help in testing out V2.0 - thanks guys.
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- Comments, etc.
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- If you have any comments, bug reports, etc. please let me know via
- Scary Monster BBS - Fnet Node #1003 - 0734 320297.
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- Tony Sanson
- 10 February 1990
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