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- 2000th HellFire Screen Saver (Version: 2.21)
- Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Chekalin Igor, FP Software lab.
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- Contents
-
- 1. Description
- 2. System Requirements
- 3. Installation
- 4. UnInstallation
- 5. Shareware limitations
- 6. Version History
- 7. Contact information
-
- 1. Description
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The '2000th HellFire' Screen Saver puts on an impressive show of smoothly animated,
- photorealistic fire effects overlaid on a dimmed-out version of your desktop.
- It accomplishes this without the use of any 3D or 2D accelerators. You'll see
- burning flames, heat distortion, fireworks, and sparkles. High-quality stereo
- sound effects add to the realism. Several adjustable settings are provided:
- Set the video mode, fireworks count, minimum and maximum explosion size,
- number of sparkles, and the amount of fireballs. You can also mute the sound,
- not show the desktop as a background, and get a live preview as you're making
- adjustments.
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- 2. System Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Minimal: Pentium-133, 8MB RAM, 1MB video RAM, DirectX 3.0+ (*)
- Recommended: Pentium-200+, 16+ MB RAM, Sound card.
- (*) NT Service Pack v5+ for WinNT 4.x+
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- 3. Installation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Just unzip and run hellfire2000.exe and follow displayed instructions.
- Then open Control Panel --> Display Settings dialog, select 'HellFire' in
- Screen Saver tab, and enjoy! :)
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- 4. UnInstallation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To uninstall this program just delete file HellFire.SCR from your \Windows\System
- subdirectory.
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- 5. Shareware limitations
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This program is Shareware (Free Distributable), i.e. You can test
- this fully functional trial version 10 days after installation.
- After that trial period you will get message box which will
- remind you about registration.
- If your like this program, if You Want to support author's future
- developments and want to receive newsletters about new author's
- screen savers and other products, at last If you want to remove
- that nag screen - Please register! (Registration fee consists $15)
-
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- Onine registration page URL:
- https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=3505-1
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- 6. Version history.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- v2.20 (26 June 2000)
- + Videomode Switch support without DirectX added
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- v2.11 (26 June 2000)
- + Work without DirectX added
-
- v2.1(2000) (1 Apr 2000)
- + Password protection.
- + Fixed startup bug which appeared on computers with
- some software and hardware combination.
-
- v2.0(2000) (23 Mar 2000)
-
- * First SHAREWARE version.
- + Sound Effects
- + 'Current mode' item in video mode list
- + Preview in Display Properties and Screen Saver Settings dialogs.
- + Advanced settings dialog
- + Huge source-code rewriting, internal architecture
- redesign, a lot of bugfixes.
-
- v1.2.1 (27 Nov 1999)
- * Furst publuc-domain FREEWARE version published in WWW
- + Just minor bugfixes and contacts update
-
- v1.2 (4 Nov 1999)
- + FPS limit ( no more than 40 FPS );
- + Desktop image reading accelerated;
- + Fast Anti-aliased stretching/shrinking algorithms are now used for
- desktop image resizing;
- + Some small bugfixes;
- + Author contact information changed;
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- v1.1 (18 Aug 1998)
- * First FREEWARE release version;
- + Options dialog;
- + Bugfixes;
-
- v1.0
- * First Win32+DirectX version.
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- 7. Contact information.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- Contact information:
- WWW:
- http://www.fpsoftlab.com
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- Onine registration:
- http://www.fpsoftlab.com/order.htm
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- Download latest version:
- http://www.fpsoftlab.com/hellfire2000.exe
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- Support E-mail:
- mailto:hellfire@fpsoftlab.com
- mailto:igor@fpsoftlab.com (author's personal mail)
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- Author's ICQ UIN:
- 53215435
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- Phone:
- +7 (86344) 32-57-14 (Taganrog, Russian Federation)
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- Sincerely yours, Chekalin Igor (hellfire@fpsoftlab.com).