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- FIREWORKS_DISPLAY Release 1.21
- Copyright 1988/89, Brian Fehdrau
-
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- What You Should Get In WORKS120.ZOO
- -----------------------------------
-
- README 38 - Tells you to read this file
- works 9220 - Executable file
- works.doc 7621 - This file
- works.mod 3163 - Modifications, past and present
-
- If that does not accurately describe the contents of your Zoo
- archive, then the archive has been altered and I would ask that you
- not distribute it and also that you ask your source (such as a BBS
- or disk collection) to remove it and try to get a proper archive.
- Distributing an altered archive violates the distribution liscense
- (described below).
-
-
-
- A Screen-Sortofblanker for the Amiga
- ------------------------------------
-
- This program, given a number of minutes to wait after an action
- from the user, will blank the screen. However, unlike the usual,
- mundane black screen you usually get with a screen blanker, you get
- fireworks. And no, this doesn't defeat the purpose of a screen
- blanker. The purpose of a screen blanker is to prevent steady
- images (such as the title bar of a screen) from burning into the
- phosphor of your monitor, and because fireworks aren't terribly
- steady, the blanker still fulfills its obligations.
-
- This program considers the following to be "actions" from the
- user, which will prevent or turn off the blank: keypresses,
- mouse movements, mousebutton clicks, insertion or ejection of a
- disk, and, unlike a certain other program I won't mention but
- whose initials are "MachClk", joystick movements. You can
- instantly blank the screen with ALT-HELP (good when someone walks
- in on you when you have an X-rated HAM pic on the screen), or quit
- the program altogether with CTRL-HELP. I tried to pick rarely-
- used keys, so I hope they don't get in the way of any programs you
- use. Tell me if they do, and I'll consider changing them.
-
- Note that this program requires around 12K of chip memory to
- display its screen. If it can't get that memory, it will open up
- a one pixel screen and perform the more mundane variety of screen
- blanking. If you want that kind of blanking all the time, you can
- just bloody well use MachClk or some other thing. I call this
- program FIREWORKS_DISPLAY for a reason.
-
- This program can be invoked by typing "works <x>" at the CLI
- (or Shell, I guess, since WB1.3 is out now) prompt and hitting
- return, where "<x>" is the number of minutes of inactivity the
- blanker will wait through before blanking. Remember to "run" the
- program if you want your CLI back. It's a MANX program, so if
- you want to be able to close your initial CLI and open up a shell
- or some such, run it after, from the shell. All Manx-written
- programs prevent closing a CLI, whether runbacked or run >NIL:.
- Call it with no arguments if you have such a bad memory that you
- can't remember what they are, and you'll get a little usage/info
- message.
-
-
-
- SEMI-INTERESTING SIDE-NOTE
- --------------------------
-
- This is the first program, of at least a few hundred, that I
- have ever finished. I didn't mean to do it. I just wrote for a
- while and discovered I had inadvertantly finished╣ the program.
- Normally, I just write a program until I'm sufficiently convinced
- that I have all the inner works (pun intended) rightâ–“, then decide
- I no longer have any inclination to work on a program that works
- and start something else. So please don't hold it against me that
- I actually finished a program.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1 - A programmer's "finished" and a normal person's "finished" are
- not the same thing.
- 2 - A programmer's "right" and a normal person's "right" are not
- the same thing.
-
-
-
- SHAREWARE NOTICE
- ----------------
-
- This program is ShareWare. Is not, repeat and emphasize, NOT
- public domain. They are not the same thing. You can use this
- program for free at first, but if you continue to use it, then you
- obviously like it, and you can show it really easily by giving me
- some money. I'm a university student damn near $6000 in debt from
- student loans... I COULD USE SOME MONEY. If you don't want to
- feel guilty for the rest of your life, send donations of $5 to $15,
- or any spare real estate you have, or whatever you can afford, to
- me at this address:
- Brian Fehdrau
- 186 Goerzen St.
- Saskatoon, SK, CANADA
- S7K 7E3
-
- I don't promise anything in return, but if you include your
- address (or, more preferably, a FidoNet node where I can send you
- NetMail) and the version of the program that you have, I can at
- least tell you if and when there's a "New, Improved" version, or a
- bug fix, or something like that. That reminds me... send any bug
- reports (please, no suggestions) to the same address, or to FidoNet
- node 1:140/22 if you have access to FidoNet Mail.
-
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
- --------------------
-
- You may upload the archive this document came in, COMPLETE and
- UNCHANGED, to any public bulletin board, so long as that board does
- not charge fees specifically for downloading or access to files.
- You may not upload said archive, or any parts of it, to any service
- which would claim any sort of ownership or copyright over it, such
- as CompuS*rve does. This program may not be included on any
- commercial disk without my consent, which would involve a sizeable
- chunk of money coming my way. This archive (or, alternatively, its
- complete unchanged contents) may be included in any public domain
- or ShareWare collection of disks, such as the Fred Fish collection,
- so long as no fee beyond that of the media, shipping, or copying
- (as long as it isn't something like $10 to type DISKCOPY DF0: TO
- DF1:) is charged to the user for said disks and no ownership or
- copyright is claimed. (If it IS included, I'd be interested to
- know about it.)
-
- Also, if possible, please try to use the name for the archive
- that is mentioned at the start of this document.
-
- This license overrides all previous licenses for Works.
-
-
-
- A PERSONAL VIEW
- ---------------
-
- I've switched from ARC to ZOO because of the SEA - Phil Katz
- litigation. SEA is a group of self-serving idiots and I want
- nothing to do with their archiver. If and when PK's new ZIP is
- ported to the Amiga, I'm switching to that, because quite
- simply, SEA's software is slow and stupid and PK's is fast and
- efficient. Suck on that for a while, SEA.
-
- Brian Fehdrau
- 30 Mar 89
-
-
- PS: oO/
- ((_)=
- U| Ack! Thppt.
-