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- ** Christmas Blips Screen Saver V1.0 for Windows **
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- I. Description
- This is a Christams screen saver for Windows with a little twist!
- It contains the epitome of secular Christmas, Santa Claus, showing "blips"
- of the real Christmas story from the Bible. Santa floats around the screen
- holding a sign which displays random Bible verses that pertain to the
- birth of Christ. Swirls of red and green will flash behind Santa
- periodically. The verses will change every minute. It is a simple little
- screen saver that I created for my PC at work, so that I would have
- something colorful displayed that tells the real meaning of Christmas.
-
- II. Installation & Use Instructions:
- - Run the SETUP.EXE program
- - It will place the screen saver file (XMASSAV.SCR) and the file
- of Bible verses (BBLIPSXM.VRS) into your C:\WINDOWS directory,
- and it will place this README.TXT file into the directory
- specified by the setup program.
- - To use it, open your CONTROL PANEL (usually in your MAIN window),
- select DESKTOP, and select XMAS BLIPS from the list of screen
- savers available.
- NOTE: You must have the Visual Basic runtime module VBRUN300.DLL
- in your Windows or Windows\System directory!
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- III. Machine Requirements:
- - Windows 3.1
- - Arial true type font
- - VBRUN300.DLL Visual Basic run module
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- IV. Development Environment:
- This program was written in Visual Basic V3.0 Standard Edition
- on my home PC which is a 486SX-25 with 8 meg RAM. I'm running
- Windows 3.1 on top of MS-DOS 6.2 using the standard Microsoft
- memory manager(HIMEM/EMM386), disk cache (Smartdrv). It was also
- tested on a 486-33 running Windows for Workgroups.
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- V. Verses & Graphic
- - The Bible verses used by Christmas Blips are taken from the King
- James version of the Bible.
- - I have specifically placed the verses in a separate file so
- that, if you want Christmas Blips to use verses that you select,
- you can easily add them. The format of the verses file (which
- is called "BBLIPSXM.VRS") is quite simple. It is a simple text
- file with one verse per line! Christmas Blips will handle thousands
- of verses (but the program will slow down with a larger verse
- file). The maximum limit for a verse in the text file
- is 252 characters. But that many positions will never fit in
- the Bible Blips window. You'll just have to use trial and error.
- - The graphic of Santa Claus was taken from a public domain pcx
- file that I downloaded from a local BBS.
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- VII. Registration
- There is no registration required. It is free!
-
- VIII. Standard Copyright and Disclaimer Stuff:
- - You may copy and give this program to anyone you wish as long
- as the 2 main files and this README.TXT file are kept intact.
- - This program is free of charge but the author still maintains
- all copyrights.
- - This program is provided to you on an "as is" basis. The author
- assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages incurred
- from the use of this program (but what could go wrong?!?).
- - Windows and Visual Basic are excellent products and are
- trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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- IX. About the Author:
- I am a 17 year mainframe computer programmer (which means very
- little when you're talking about programming on a PC). I
- currently have 2 other FREE Bible applications available through
- several on-line services. One is called "Bible Baseball for Windows".
- And the other is "Bible Blips for Windows".
- My wife wanted me to learn Visual Basic so that I could write
- some applications for her fifth grade classroom's PC. She
- teaches at Penn Christian Academy in Norristown, PA. If you have
- any comments, corrections, bug notifications (heaven forbid),
- or ideas for other useful programs, please just let me know.
- My address is listed in Christmas Blips' ABOUT box. Oh, by the way,
- you get to the ABOUT box by selecting screen saver setup while
- you are in the CONTROL PANEL'S Desktop function.
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- X. Other Software by the Author
-
- - Bible Blips for Windows v1.2 - a simple little Bible utility that
- displays randowm Bible verses when run.
-
- - Bible Baseball for Windows v2.4 - a Bible trivia game similar to
- the old Sunday School game Bible Baseball that the author played
- as a child. It is available from several online services
- including AmericaOnline and CompuServe. It is freeware!
-
- Also, coming to a retail outlet near you...
- - Major League Math Baseball for Windows v1.0 - a math adaptation
- of Bible Baseball for Windows that is being released and
- distributed to the retail market by Quorum Software.
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