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- *** MOVIES1.0 SCREEN SAVERS ***
-
- PRE-HISTORY:
-
- Back before the dawn of BackSpace, I used Scene to do my screen
- saving, which worked fine sort of, except it wasn't too automatic, and
- there weren't too many "movies" to pick from.
-
- Then came BackSpace!
-
-
- CURRENT EVENTS:
-
- I grabbed up NINE of the Scene "movies" and went to work. These were
- the easiest of the bunch that I had to work with. None of the
- PostScript is "mine", but belongs to who knows who else. I just
- basically copied the code and made up the modules for em. Here is
- what they are:
-
- FireWorks
- Fireworks display. shoots 10 firecrackers, and then starts
- over. Needs sound. Will try to add later. Works in a normal
- window but don't expect much.
-
- HostFont
- Prints the host name out at random angles, random sizes, and
- random (?) font types.
-
- HostSpin & HostSpinSingle
- These both print out the hostname to the screen, and rotate it
- while also changing the color. The Single version will cycle
- through each letter, rotating that single letter 360 degrees
- before going on to the next letter. They work fine in a
- normal window, but they may be a bit screwy if you change the
- window size, especially HostSpinSingle. In order for
- HostSpinSingle to work, HostSpin MUST be installed, as it uses
- the same pswrap'ped code to do it's letters. The reverse is
- not true. May be in color, I don't know. Shouldn't be
- difficult to add if not.
-
- Lines
- Very simple, prints random lines randommly to screen in random
- color. Hey, how about a bit more randomness???
-
- ModernArt
- Puts up some *modern* art onto the screen. Basically a
- mish-mash of demented rectangles. Nothing spectacular.
-
- NeXT
- Puts a NeXT logo on the screen, squishes it, then unsquishes
- it. Should be in color, I don't know.
-
-
- NeXTshades
- Rotates and changes the scale of a NeXT logo, while also
- moving it along the screen. Also changes it's color. This
- should look nice in color, or on black and white.
-
- Popcorn
- Makes popcorn. Turn up the sound to hear it "popping".
-
- All of these work on my system (2.1). I've not run any of them over
- night or anything but I don't expect them to crash.
-
-
- INSTALLING:
-
- Just unpack the archive, and 'cd MovieSavers', and type 'make'. This
- presumes that you are logged in as root, or have write access to
- /LocalLibrary/BackSpaceViews.
-
- Everything is precompiled. It should install w/o having to recompile.
- The make scripts are pretty simplistic. Nothing too fancy. If you
- only want to make and install one module, then do a 'make install'
- from that module's directory.
-
-
- CUSTOMIZATION:
-
- FireWorks, ModernArt, and NeXT all have #defines of TIME_DELAY. You
- can change this to speed up or slow down the animation. In addition,
- FireWorks has extra options for gravity, and number of "shots" that
- will show on a screen. NeXTshades has a bunch of options that you
- could fiddle with to make bizzarre movements.
-
-
- FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- I probably could add code to make mousemovements affect various
- aspects of these programs, and most likely I will. I hope to bring a
- few more of the "movies" to BackSpace, like the snake one (I really
- want that one), but it's quite big and I don't have the time right
- now.
-
-
- PROBLEMS / BUGS / SUGGESTIONS / PRAISE / MONEY (yeah right):
-
- If ya find a problem, or like these, or whatever, send me some mail.
- See below.
-
-
- COPYRIGHT:
-
- None. Since I "borrowed" all the PostScript examples from elsewhere,
- I don't think I'd even attempt to Copyright this. Use em any way you
- wish, except for commericial gain.
-
-
- GUARANTEE'S:
-
- I guarantee that I don't think it'll hose your system. Mine hasn't
- crashed and I tested these pretty thoroughly. If it does bake your
- system, well, rest assured it'll probably nail mine too. Apologies if
- it does anything goofy. Please let me know.
-
-
- AUTHOR / EMAIL ADDRESS:
-
- Doug "Kareth" McClure
- asd@cc.purdue.edu
- XASD@PURCCVM.BITNET
-