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- Africa Screen Saver(tm)
- Copyright (C) 1994 by
- Socha Computing, Inc.
-
- This version of the Africa Screen Saver contains all the files you need in
- order to run it from within Microsoft Windows. Here are the minimum and
- recommended system requirements for running the Africa Screen Saver, which
- uses the Wildlife Screen Saver(tm) engine.
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- ---------------------
- * Windows 3.1 or later
- * 386 or better microprocessor (486 recommended)
- * 4MB of memory (8MB recommended for anyone using Windows)
- * 256 color display (or more)
- * Optional sound card if you want to hear the pleasing sounds of Africa
-
- Africa will fill your entire screen for any screen size up to 1,024 by 768
- pixels. For screens larger than this, the images will be centered on your
- screen.
-
- INSTALLING THE AFRICA SCREEN SAVER
- ----------------------------------
- 1. Make sure all the files are in a single directory. If these files are
- on a CD-ROM or floppy disk, make a directory on your hard disk and copy
- the files to your hard disk.
- 2. From within Windows, double-click on the SETUP.EXE file. This program
- does not install the Africa Screen Saver files -- but you must run it
- before running WILDLIFE.EXE.
- 3. From within Windows, duoble-click on the WILDLIFE.EXE file.
- 4. If you want this screen saver to run each time you start Windows,
- click on the Settings button, then check the option that says
- "Run Wildlife when Windows starts" and click on the OK button.
-
- USING WILDLIFE
- --------------
- We've tried to make using our screen saver as simple as possible, but there
- are a couple of features that may not be obvious.
-
- Preview a Module
- You can see a preview of any module in two steps. First, whenever you
- click on a module name, you'll see a small still image to remind you what
- the module looks like. If you then click on this preview image, Wildlife
- will switch to screen saver mode and run that module.
-
- Using the Randomizer
- You can have Wildlife switch between your favoriate modules using the
- Randomizer. The randomzier will be active whenever the name *Randomizer*
- is highlighted in the list of modules (this name is ALWAYS first in the
- list).
-
- Whenever any module other than *Randomizer* is highlighted, Wildlife will
- run only that module.
-
- Muting Sound
- If you have a sound card installed Wildlife will automatically play
- sounds for you. You can turn this feature off for all modules, or just
- for specific modules. To mute all modules, uncheck the Mute all modules
- check box. Check this box again to turn the sound back on.
-
- You can also mute the sound on individual modules using the Mute check
- box that appears at the very top of the Wildlife window.
-
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- --------------------------
- Q: I can't get WILDLIFE.EXE to run. Why not?
-
- A: You probably need to run the SETUP.EXE program. If you're wondering
- what this program does and why you need to run it, you'll find this
- addressed below in another question.
-
- Q: How reliable is the Wildlife Screen Saver engine used by Africa?
-
- A: We're very proud of our screen saver and believe that it is the most
- reliable screen saver on the market. The Wildlife engine is actually
- an update of an engine that has been shipping in a commercial product
- since October 1993. We have had very few bug reports from our many
- users, and none of the bug reports (knock on wood) have been crashes
- or reports of damaged or lost data.
-
- Here's a bit of techno-babble: Part of the reason for this level of
- reliability is that all of the Windows knowledge and hairy code is
- contained in the central engine rather than in the modules. What this
- means is that any time we fix a bug that appeared in one module, we
- fixed that same bug in ALL modules.
-
- Q: Will the Wildlife Screen Saver engine slow down my other programs?
-
- A: Your programs will run at full speed as long as Wildlife hasn't
- "blanked" your screen. Once your screen blanks, your other programs
- that are running in the background may slow down a little since
- Wildlife does require time to animate your screen. For most people,
- this will never be noticable. However, if you're concerned about
- slow-downs, you can adjust the Animation Priority in the Settings
- dialog box to slow down Wildlife's animations while other programs
- are performing heavy calculations. Or you can temporarly turn off
- Wildlife by unchecking the On check box that appears at the top of
- the Wildlife main window. Simply check the On box again to re-enable
- Wildlife.
-
- Q: What is the Wildlife Screen Saver, I thought this was the Africa Screen
- Saver?
-
- A: The name Wildlife Screen Saver refers to the engine, or software, that
- runs all the modules we've created for the Africa Screen Saver. We
- know this is a little confusing, but the engine is a general-purpose
- engine that you can expect to see used by other screen savers in the
- future, so we wanted to give it a more generic name than "Africa."
-
- Q: How do I remove the Africa Screen Saver?
-
- A: We hope you'll like Africa enough so you'll never want to remove it.
- But if this tragic day should ever come, removing Africa is very easy:
-
- 1) First, if you have Africa set to start each time you run Windows,
- display the Africa main window.
-
- 2) Then click on the Settings button to display the Settings dialog
- box.
-
- 3) Uncheck the box labeled "Run Wildlife when Windows starts" and
- click the OK button.
-
- 4) Now quit Wildlife by clicking on the Quit button.
-
- 5) At this point you can delete all of the files for this product,
- which should all be in the same directory.
-
- Q: What does the SETUP.EXE program do and when do I need to run it?
-
- A: The Wildlife Screen Saver engine displays dialog boxes with a nice
- 3-D effect using a part from Microsoft called CTL3DV2.DLL. If you get
- an error message from Windows to the effect "...cannot find specified
- file (or one of its components)" or "cannot find CTL3DV2.DLL", you
- need to run SETUP.EXE. This program will install the CTL3DV2.DLL file
- in the proper location in Windows so Wildlife will run properly.
-
- For you techno friends: SETUP.EXE will not overwrite newer versions of
- CTL3DV2.DLL.
-
- If you have other questions, please contact us via the Internet:
-
- socha@halcyon.com
-
- We do NOT provide telephone support, so please (pretty please) don't make us
- answer the phone only to tell you that we do not provide telephone support.
-