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- S T A R F L I G H T
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- Screen Saver for Windows95(tm) and WindowsNT(tm)
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- Copyright (c) 1996,1997 Matthias Huebner
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- License Agreement
- This program is FREEWARE. It is free for use and distribution, no
- Registration is required. It is not permitted to other parties, to charge
- for handling, except for freight charge. This program must be shipped in original
- package. It is allowed to bundle this package as a part of other packages.
- All Rights Reserved.
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- Limited Warranty
- For direct or indirect damage, caused by using the program, the author is not
- liable. The author gives no warranty for full, correct or partly
- functionality of the program. You are using this program on your own risk.
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- The author also gives no warranty, that the program is free of any virus. The
- user has to check it.
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- Trademarks
- Windows95 and WindowsNT are trademarks of Microsoft Coporation.
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- Features
- Yet another starflight screensaver? -not at all. StarFlight is THE "starflight
- screensaver" !
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- * Two separate configurable star sets for better 3d effect
- * Stars are stretched depending on flight speed
- * Alternate views - f.e. controlable by mouse or animated.
- * Spectral colouring of stars
- * Optional ignoring of mouse motion and clicks
- * Delayed screen blanking
- * Pausing if any background task takes to much CPU time
- * No extra tool required - direct useable for windows
- * Playing a sound in background or on startup
- * Different scanner modes for forward sensors...
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- System requirements
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- At first you need Windows95(tm), WindowsNT(tm) 3.51 or 4.0. This program
- requires a fpu unit, because it makes usage of floating point calculations.
- You need a CPU >=3D 80486. For the spectral colouring you need true colour
- mode (16 bit colour depth).
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- Test with
- Windows95(tm), WindowsNT(tm) 3.51 (1 and 2-CPU System), WindowsNT(tm) 4.0
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- Installation
- Copy the starflight.scr to your windows\system directory.
- Using the desktop properties you can choose and configure the screensaver.
- You also can use the explorer and the context menu for the screen saver to
- configure.
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- Properties
- There are a lot of parameters to change the starflight behaviour.
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- Sections:
- * "View"
- Select the form of view and the main speed. As a gimmick, you can activate a
- scanner simulation.
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- * "Ignore"
- You can protect the screensaver against mouse motion and mouse clicks.
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- * "Screen Save"
- After a selectable time, the screen can be blanked completely.
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- * "View control"
- If you chose dynamic view, you can control its behaviour here.
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- * "Star Parameter"
- Configure two separate star sets. The primary set represents the fast,
- nearby flying stars, the second set is the far away, a bit slower flying stars.
- When the star length is one, the dot size can doubled.
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- * "Special"
- With "not jerky" the screensaver blanks to black, if any background task
- takes to much CPU time. With "info line" the saver shows for 2 minutes the
- following infos: frames per second, drawn stars and total stars.
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- * "Play audio file"
- Select an audio file, which play at startup. It can play infinite
- while screen is blanking (but ends with final screen save)
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- Last, but not least
- If you have any bug report or idea for the program,
- write to my e-mail: matthias.huebner@hamburg.netsurf.de
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- Please state, which version do you use!
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- Look for latest versions at
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MatthiasHuebner/sf.htm
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- Hamburg, 08/24/1997 - Matthias Huebner
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