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- ScreenSave
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- Phosphors need coffee breaks too, you know. Let your monitor chill
- with Mellow Out.
- When nothing's happened on the desktop for a while, Mellow Out
- will give your monitor a change of scenery... and if you don't like
- plain black scenery, you can choose what scenery to change it to by
- dropping an IotaFilm file (type C2A) on the icon bar icon.
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- Other features
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- Choose Delay->Now! from the menu to see the film in action without
- having to wait around.
- If you want your film to waft around the screen interestingly,
- have a look at the Features submenu where there are three varieties of
- wafting. (Delta films can only be played centred, that is, waftless.)
- If you want your ears as well as your screen saved, turn off
- Features->Sound.
- If you want the film played flat out, turn on Features->Fast
- (Otherwise the frame rate specified in the film is used).
- Choose Clear from the menu to make Mellow Out use a blank screen,
- which is not only fashionably Spartan, but also means Mellow Out uses
- as little memory as possible - films can be rather large.
- Choose Save as Default to save
- - the currently chosen film
- - the currently chosen delay
- - the current Centred, Flying, Bouncing or Wandering setting
- - whether Sound is enabled
- - whether Fast is enabled
- as the defaults for when Mellow Out is next loaded.
- Mellow Out is in BASIC, so you can load it into an editor and
- check out for yourself how to use IotaFilm files in your own programs.
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- Mail demon
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- [Technical:] If Mellow Out receives a Wimp message number &81EFF,
- with the message data (from block+20 onwards) a zero-terminated sprite
- name, this sprite is also plotted wandering about the screen until the
- screensaver is next de-activated. This can be used to give an
- indication of system status at a glance; for instance, an email
- application could send this message with a "mailbox full" sprite when
- mail arrives. The sprite must be in the Wimp sprite pool, it must have
- a palette, and it cannot be a 256 (or more) colour sprite.
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- EuclidX
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- The EuclidX module has been placed in the public domain by Ace
- Computing.
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