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- Electric ! 1.2 Screen Saver for Windows 95 and Windows NT
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-
- 1 License, disclaimer ...
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- This program is ABSOLUTE FREEWARE. You have nothing to pay to me.
-
- This program comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY, more especially
- not any warranty about saving anything...
-
- 2 Installation
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- Just copy the file "electric.scr" to your \windows\system (95)
- or \windows\system32 (NT) directory and choose "electric" from
- the control panel.
-
- 3 Bug reports, etc...
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- If you have a bug to report, a suggestion to do, or if you just
- want to tell me how it changed your life, you may email me at :
-
- JX Bardant
- bardant@club-internet.fr
-
- If you want to get more information about _Electric !_, or if
- you want to get the last release, check the _Electric !_ home
- page at :
-
- http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1140/electric.html
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- 4 What's new in version 1.2
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-
- *Added : DirectX support for color mode switching under Windows 95.
- Does not work properly under Windows NT 4.0. Not supported under older versions of NT.
- *Added : Ability to change the animation speed.
- *Added : Ability to choose color palettes.
- *Added : Full screen preview allowing to change options 'on the fly'.
- *Fixed : Screen scan option of the McAffee anti-virus stops the screen saver.
-
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- 5 What was new in version 1.1
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- * Added : configuration possibilities with a preview window,
- so that you can see at once what the screens will look like
- * Added : ability to ignore mouse movements
- * Corrected bugs in 256 colors mode : 1) too fast animation when
- the multimedia player is in the background ;
- 2) incorrect colors after the saver stops
- * Improved : smoother color palette in 256 colors mode
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- 6 Known bugs
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- 16 colors mode :
- * The result is just TERRIBLE. If I were you, I'd just use another
- resolution...
-
- 256 colors mode :
- * I was told that this program exerts a strange fascination on CATS.
- Well, since I've got none, I can only repeat what I heard. But if
- your tom goes nuts, just don't tell me you haven't been warned...
-
- 65536 (and more) colors :
- * The image is smooth, but it's not animated. Color cycling is a
- hardware feature not supported in those modes.
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- With DirectX
- *Using the DirectX option may cause a crash under Windows NT 4.0. So do not use it.
- *The McAffee screen-scan option may cause the color mode to switch back to the default.
- I have still to figure out how to fix this.
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- With Windows NT</h3>
- *The 'ignore mouse moves' option does not work properly on NT 4.0.
- *Configuration dialog box is slow under NT 3.51.
- *Configuration dialog box does not work under Windows NT 3.1 - 3.5.
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- 7 What's cooking for future releases...
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- *Some graphical effects that were kindly submitted by Harold McMahon.
- *Cooler color palettes (lots of work to do!)
- *Maybe sounds...
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