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- Mountain Terrain Screen Saver
-
- by A.C. Barentyne
- ⌐ 1996, Kalamazoo Cigar Company
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- Contents of the zip:
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- This zip file should contain the following files:
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- Mountain Terrain.scr : Main screen saver (for high color)
- ScrPlus.hlp : Context help for general options
- Mountains.txt : This file
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- Installing the program:
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- This program is distributed as a Zip compressed file. Unzip the file,
- using WinZip, or some other PKZIP compliant decompression utility, into
- your Windows or Windows\system directory. This is usually, but not
- necessarily, C:\win95 or c:\win95\system.
-
- If you unzipped into a temporary directory, simply move the files
- 'Mountain Terrain.scr' and 'ScrPlus.hlp' into one of the above
- directories, using Explorer.
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- Select the program from the list of screen savers in the Display
- Properties dialog. To access this dialog, either Right-Click on an
- empty area of the desktop or choose 'Display' from the Control Panel.
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- You can also change the settings from the Display Properties dialog.
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- Uninstalling the program:
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- Should you decide to delete this program, simply delete the files
- 'Mountain Terrain.scr' and 'ScrPlus.hlp' from your hard drive.
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- The program also creates the following keys in the registry:
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- HKEY_CURRENT_USER // Software // KalCigar
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER // Software // KalCigar // Mountain
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- You may freely delete these keys, using Regedit.exe. Before you change
- anything else in your registry, be sure to back it up.
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- System requirements:
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- Any computer running Windows95 or WindowsNT 4.0 or later should have
- no problems running the Mountain Terrain screen saver. If you do have
- any problems, please let me know. See 'Questions, comments, and bugs'
- below.
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- Settings:
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- There are two ways to access the settings dialog. Either choose the
- button marked 'Settings' from the Display Properties 'Screen Saver'
- tab; or locate the 'Mountain Terrain.scr' file in the windows directory
- using explorer, right click on the icon, and choose 'Configure'.
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- The Settings dialog has two pages, marked General and Options.
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- General:
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- The large monitor display allows you to set mouse-sensitive hot spots,
- to run or disable the screen saver based on mouse position. To use this
- option, you must have Microsoft Plus! installed on your system. If you
- do not, changes here will not affect anything.
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- The Mouse Sensitivity drop-down box allows you to set how much the
- mouse must move to stop the screen saver. This does not require Plus!
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- The Wait control allows you to choose how long the screen saver must
- run before a password is required to exit it. If you are not using
- passwords, this affects nothing. This does not require Plus!
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- Options:
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- In the Colors box there are several Radio Buttons. These control the
- color set the program uses to draw the mountains. In brief:
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- Earth: Gray
- Mountains of Mars: Red
- Underwater: Blue
- Green Fields: Green
- Purple Mountains Majesty: Purple
- Sonar: Black and white wire-frame
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- The Cragginess control determines how sharply the mountains slope. A
- high setting yields tall mountains and deep waters. Average settings
- are 64 for a Fine Detail set, and 32 otherwise.
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- The Elevation control determines initial height of the mountains at the
- corners. This could be above or below sea-level, though, so this has
- less effect than you might think. The border between high elevations
- and low ones is fuzzy, but this control allows you to give it a nudge
- in the preferred direction.
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- The Fine Detail check box allows you to set the size of the building
- blocks that make up the mountains. When Checked, the display will be
- more detailed, but slower.
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- The Relative Water Depth check box determines whether to change the
- color of the water based on the depth to the first structure beneath
- them. The deeper it is, the darker the water gets. When Off, the
- water remains a solid color throughout.
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- Questions, Comments, Bugs?
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- If you have anything to say, please do so. My email address is:
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- baren@ix.netcom.com
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- I'd be particularly interested in any bugs you may come across. But my
- email box is also open to any glowing praise or suggestions for future
- versions you care to share with me.
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- Distribution:
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- This program is Freeware. As such, you may distribute it to as many
- people or machines as you choose, just so long as this document goes
- with it. I would prefer if you were to distribute it in its original
- format (i.e. the Zip file).
-
- However, this program is not Public Domain. The Kalamazoo Cigar
- Company maintains the copyright, and all rights associated with it.
-
- You may not charge to distribute this program. If you wish to
- distribute it on a BBS or a commercially available CD-ROM, or other
- medium, please contact me.
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- Version info:
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- This is officially version 2.01 of the Mountain Terrain screen saver.
- There are no known bugs in this release.
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- Thank you very much for trying out this program. Eventually, there will
- be other program I have written on my home page, when Netcom finally
- gets their upload capability off the ground. When that happens, my
- web page will be:
-
- http:\\www.netcom.com\~baren\
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- Notes:
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- Windows 95 includes a built in screen capture utility. If any display
- particularly tickles your fancy, you can keep it by pressing the
- Print Screen key. This will copy it in bitmap format to the clipboard.
- Then, run the MS Paint program (or other graphics utility) and Paste.
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- A.C. Barentyne -- Kalamazoo Cigar Company
- 1/20/97