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- Desert Frog Screen Scenes v3.3 for DOS
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- Table of Contents
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- 1.0 INTRODUCTION
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- 1.1 NEW FEATURES
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- 2.0 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- 3.0 INSTALLATION
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- 3.1 ADDING SCREEN SCENES TO YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
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- 4.0 USING SCREEN SCENES v3.3 FOR DOS
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- 4.1 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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- 4.2 HOTKEYS
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- 4.2.1 CREATING CUSTOM HOTKEYS
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- 4.3 MENU OPTIONS
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- 5.0 TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE
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- 6.0 THE SCENES OF SCREEN SCENES v3.3
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- 7.0 CHANGES SINCE v3.0
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- 8.0 HOW TO CONTACT US
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- 9.0 CUSTOM PROGRAMMING
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- 10.0 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- 11.0 OTHER DESERT FROG PRODUCTS
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- 11.1 FRACTAL MANIA
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- 11.2 SHOWLOGO
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- 12.0 REGISTRATION AND SITE LICENSES
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- 1.0 INTRODUCTION
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- Desert Frog Screen Scenes v3.3 for DOS (Screen Scenes) is
- the latest in a line of sophisticated DOS screen savers from
- Desert Frog Software. Unlike most other DOS screen savers,
- Screen Scenes does something fun when it blanks the screen.
- Screen Scenes provides 29 (16 if you don't have a VGA
- system) different scenes for your enjoyment. The wide range
- of scenes includes a kaleidoscope, an aquarium full of Crazy
- Fish, the long-awaited hopping frog scene and a set of wild
- 256-color palette-animated fractals!
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- Screen Scenes v3.3 is easy to control and customize. Each
- scene can be enabled, disabled or demonstrated individually.
- The length of time to delay before popping up can be set to
- between 1 and 60 minutes. All the scenes can be password
- protected, preventing unauthorized use of your PC. You can
- leave multi-line messages on the screen or hit the "instant-
- on" key if the boss walks by at an inconvenient time.
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- Screen Scenes looks at the keyboard, mouse and printer to
- decide when it should pop up. This means that it will not
- pop up when you are entering data or printing.
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- 1.1 NEW FEATURES
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- The following new features have been added to Desert Frog
- Screen Scenes since version 3.0.
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- 1) Microsoft Windows detection. Prevents interference
- with Windows by not popping up when Windows is active.
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- 2) Super VGA mode blanking. Screen Scenes now detects
- when the system is in a Super VGA mode and blanks the
- screen. Password protection is not active when the
- screen is blanked, but the video display is restored
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- 3) Comm port activity detection. Screen Scenes now
- detects when a communication program has taken control
- of the Comm ports and blanks the screen instead of
- popping up graphics. Doing this allows
- telecommunication sessions to continue without
- interruption. Password protection is not active when
- the screen is blanked.
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- 4) VGA video forcing. The user can force Screen Scenes to
- run in VGA mode. Screen Scenes cannot always detect
- that you have a VGA video system. Using this command
- line option forces Screen Scenes to run in VGA. DO NOT
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- 2.0 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- Desert Frog Screen Scenes for DOS v3.3 requires a hard disk
- and a color CGA, EGA or VGA video card and monitor.
- Grayscale VGA monitors are also supported. Expanded memory
- is recommended but not required. The program works with DOS
- versions 2.0 to 5.0 and is compatible with Microsoft and
- Logitech mice. OS/2 and Geoworks are NOT supported (see
- below for coexistence with unsupported programs).
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- Screen Scenes requires 420K of available RAM during
- installation and removal from memory. Screen Scenes also
- requires 1,750K of space on your hard disk or 1,000K on your
- hard disk and 830K available EMS memory. Screen Scenes
- occupies less than 7K of RAM when waiting to pop up.
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- 3.0 INSTALLATION
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- Screen Scenes is easy to install. Copy the file SS33D.EXE
- from the distribution disk onto your hard disk. Once
- SS33D.EXE is copied to the hard disk, log into the directory
- containing it and run SS33D. SS33D.EXE is actually a self-
- extracting archive created using LHA.EXE v2.13, a freeware
- archiving package. When you run SS33D it extracts all the
- files which make up Screen Scenes. Once you have run
- SS33D.EXE you can delete it from your hard disk.
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- The following set of commands creates a directory called
- DFSS on the C: drive, copies SS33D.EXE into this directory
- from the distribution disk in the A: drive, extracts all the
- Screen Scenes files and deletes SS33D.EXE from the C:\DFSS
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- C:
- MD DFSS
- CD DFSS
- COPY A:\SS33D.EXE
- SS33D
- DEL SS33D.EXE
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- The Screen Scenes program itself is called SCRSCENE.EXE. To
- run it enter the path and file name as shown below (assuming
- that Screen Scenes is installed in a directory called DFSS
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- C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE
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- Using the full path as shown above guarantees that Screen
- Scenes can find it's files when trying to pop up.
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- 3.1 ADDING SCREEN SCENES TO YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
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- The best way to use Screen Scenes is to add it to your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This file is basically a list of
- commands that are performed each time you turn on your PC.
- By adding Screen Scenes to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you will
- save yourself from having to run it manually.
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- Screen Scenes should be loaded after any network drivers or
- communication programs or other programs that receive real-
- time messages. Screen Scenes should also be loaded after
- multitasking software like DesqView or OmniView. Finally,
- Screen Scenes should be loaded before any DOS Shell or menu
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- As an example, assume you have installed Screen Scenes in
- the C:\DFSS directory. You would then add the following
- line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
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- C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE
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- Do NOT add this line to your PATH statement. It should be a
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- Using the full path as shown above guarantees that Screen
- Scenes can find it's files when trying to pop up.
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- The next time you reboot or power up the system, Screen
- Scenes will be automatically loaded and ready to save your
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- 4.0 USING SCREEN SCENES FOR DOS v3.3
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- Screen Scenes has a wealth of options, allowing you to
- customize the program for your system and personal style.
- When you run the program, you can set one or more command
- line options. Once the program is installed in memory, you
- can use the menu system or the hotkeys to further control
- the operation of the program. You can also just run the
- program without using any of the options. In the vast
- majority of cases everything will work perfectly without any
- further effort on your part.
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- 4.1 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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- Screen Scenes can accept various commands when it is run
- from the DOS prompt. There are two types of command line
- options. One type controls how Screen Scenes configures
- itself. This type is entered when Screen Scenes is first
- run, and the configurations they set do not change while the
- program is in memory. The other type commands Screen Scenes
- to do something now. These only work when Screen Scenes is
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- The following are command line options. They are entered
- like this: SCRSCENE /D /S C:\DFSS. This set of options
- tells Screen Scenes to always swap to the disk and to put
- its swap files in the DFSS directory on the C: drive.
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- The command line options are:
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- /D force disk swapping. Allows you to prevent
- Screen Scenes from using expanded memory. You
- would want to choose this option if you need to
- reserve the expanded memory for another program,
- or if you have an extended memory RAM disk that
- you would like to use for the Screen Scenes swap
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- /G go to sleep. Allows the user to prevent Screen
- Scenes from popping up automatically. It is no
- longer necessary to use this command when running
- your telecommunication software. Also useful if
- Screen Scenes causes problems when popping up
- over a particular program. Use this command line
- option when Screen Scenes is already active.
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- /H hexkey specify TSR hotkey in hexadecimal notation. It
- is possible that one of the programs you use may
- itself use the default <ALT><.> hotkey for
- something. If that is the case you will want to
- change the hotkey which activates Screen Scenes
- to something other than <ALT><.>. This option
- allows you to do so. Two alternate hotkeys are:
- <ALT><LeftShift><Z> (enter A2C as the hexkey) and
- <ALT><TAB> (enter 80F as the hexkey). See
- section 4.2.1 CREATING CUSTOM HOTKEYS for
- instructions on creating hotkeys other than those
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- /M disable swapping messages. Screen Scenes
- normally displays a message when swapping itself
- to and from the hard disk. If you don't want the
- message displayed, select this option.
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- /N no mouse detection before popping up. The Screen
- Scenes mouse motion detection routine may
- conflict with some programs. Use this option to
- disable the mouse detection in case of conflicts.
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- /S path specify drive and directory for swap files. When
- swapping itself to the disk, Screen Scenes
- normally puts it's swap files in the C:\
- directory. If you want them stored somewhere
- else, use this option to enter the drive and
- directory to use. Use this command to change the
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- /U unload Screen Scenes. Removes Screen Scenes from
- memory. This will not be possible if another TSR
- program has been loaded after Screen Scenes.
- Screen Scenes will provide a message on the
- screen telling whether or not it was successfully
- unloaded. Use this command line option when
- Screen Scenes is already active.
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- /V force VGA graphics. On some systems Screen
- Scenes has trouble detecting that the video card
- is VGA compatible. Use this command line option
- to force the use of VGA mode, regardless of what
- video card the program thinks you have. Use this
- option when you first run Screen Scenes (put it
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file). If you do not have a
- VGA system, DO NOT use this command.
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- /W wake up. Reactivates the Screen Scenes automatic
- pop-up code. Use this command when the program
- is asleep and you are ready for it to resume it's
- automatic function. Use this command line option
- when Screen Scenes is already active.
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- /? show these command line options. Use this
- command line option when Screen Scenes is already
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- 4.2 HOTKEYS
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- Hotkeys are commands to Screen Scenes that can be used at
- any time, including while another program is running! Each
- hotkey is actually a pair of keys depressed simultaneously.
- Hotkeys are shown like this in the descriptions that follow:
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- <ALT><.> This means to depress the ALT and the . keys
- simultaneously. It is called the Alt-Period
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- <ALT><,> Alt-Comma is the "Instant-on" hotkey. When
- pressed, this hotkey tells Screen Scenes to
- immediately display a scene. If Screen Scenes is
- swapping to disk it will actually take several
- seconds for the scene to appear. If Screen
- Scenes is popping up over a graphics-mode program
- there will be an additional delay while Screen
- Scenes stores the contents of video RAM on the
- hard disk. The advantage of using this hotkey
- is that it lets you bypass the menu system if you
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- <ALT><.> Alt-Period activates the Main Menu. For details
- about the use of the Main Menu see section 4.3.
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- Alt-Period is not active when the Main Menu is
- already visible or when a scene is visible on the
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- <ALT><;> Alt-Semicolon tells Screen Scenes to go to sleep.
- This hotkey is useful when you don't want Screen
- Scenes to pop up automatically. It is no longer
- necessary to use this hotkey during
- telecommunication sessions. It is also useful if
- Screen Scenes causes problems when popping up
- over a particular program. For situations where
- you know you will always want Screen Scenes to
- sleep, you are better off using the command line
- switches in a batch file as described in section
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- <ALT><'> Alt-Single Quote tells Screen Scenes to wake up.
- This hotkey reactivates the Screen Scenes
- automatic pop-up code. Use this command when the
- program is asleep and you are ready for it to
- resume it's automatic function. There is an
- equivalent command line switch that can be used
- in a batch file (see section 4.1).
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- 4.2.1 CREATING CUSTOM HOTKEYS
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- A hotkey is a combination of a normal key and one of the
- special keys left shift, right shift, control or alt. These
- keys are pressed simultaneously and signal Screen Scenes to
- do something. Hotkeys can be used at any time that Screen
- Scenes is installed in memory, regardless of what program is
- active. This can lead to conflicts between Screen Scenes
- and the active program when both use a particular key
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- Custom hotkeys can be defined to use in place of the
- <ALT><.> hotkey normally used by Screen Scenes to pop up the
- main menu. Two alternate hotkeys are <ALT><LeftShift><Z>
- and <ALT><TAB>. The hotkey is changed using the /H command
- line option (see section 4.1 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS for
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- If you want or need to create a custom hotkey different from
- those shown above, you need to follow the procedure detailed
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- <LeftShift> 2
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- <ALT> 8
- <CTRL> 4
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- Second, determine the alphanumeric key you will use. The
- second and third characters of the new hexcode are
- determined by the key you choose. The table below shows
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- <4> 05 <5> 06 <6> 07
- <7> 08 <8> 09 <9> 0A
- <0> 0B <A> 1E <B> 30
- <C> 2E <D> 20 <E> 12
- <F> 21 <G> 22 <H> 23
- <I> 17 <J> 24 <K> 25
- <L> 26 <M> 32 <N> 31
- <O> 18 <P> 19 <Q> 10
- <R> 13 <S> 1F <T> 14
- <U> 16 <V> 2F <W> 11
- <X> 2D <Y> 15 <Z> 2C
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- create a new hexcode. For example, suppose you choose the
- key combination of <CTRL><N> as your new hotkey. Using the
- tables above you would determine that the new hexcode to use
- to make the hotkey <CTRL><N> is 431. Other custom hotkeys
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- 4.3 MENU OPTIONS
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- The Screen Scenes main menu can be activated by pressing
- <ALT><.> (Alt-Period) once Screen Scenes is installed. The
- menu provides information about the program and allows the
- user to configure the program to his or her taste. The main
- menu is also the place to create a message to leave on the
- screen. The menu options are:
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- About - Provides information about this version of Screen
- Scenes as well as information about other Desert Frog
- Software products. This screen also acknowledges the Stone
- Soup Group, authors of the program FRACTINT. FRACTINT was
- used to generate all the fractal scenes. Press a key to
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- Exit - Exit the main menu. Returns you to the DOS prompt or
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- Configure - Allows the user to modify the operation of
- Screen Scenes. Sets the number of minutes to delay before
- popping up, enables/disables the main menu sound effects,
- enables/disables password protection (see Password below)
- and enables/disables borders on those scenes which support
- them. Press <CTRL><ENTER> when done modifying these
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- To move the highlight down the list press ENTER, the Down
- arrow, TAB or Page Down. To move up the list press the Up
- Arrow, Shift TAB or Page Up. Note that the mouse is not
- enabled when the configure screen is active.
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- Select Scenes - Provides a scrolling list of the available
- scenes. Scenes are enabled (eligible to pop up) when there
- is a check mark to the left of the scene name. The
- currently selected scene is highlighted. The currently
- selected scene can be enabled, disabled or demonstrated.
- When a demonstration is being run, the screen will appear
- exactly the way it would if the scene were popped up.
- Moving the mouse or pressing a key ends the demonstration.
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- A list of currently enabled scenes is saved whenever you
- exit the scene list.
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- Keyboard Control - To move the highlight down through the
- list you can use the Down Arrow, Right Arrow or Page Down
- keys. To move the highlight up through the list use the Up
- Arrow, Right Arrow or Page Up keys. Pressing the Space Bar
- toggles the highlighted scene between the enabled and
- disabled states. To run a demonstration of the highlighted
- scene press the Enter key. Press any key to exit the
- demonstration. Press the Escape key to exit the scene list
- and return to the Main Menu.
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- Mouse Control - To highlight a scene move the mouse cursor
- (a red block with a white triangle in it) over the name of
- the scene you wish to highlight and click the left mouse
- button. To enable or disable the highlighted scene, click
- the left mouse button while the mouse cursor is on the
- highlighted scene name. Repeated clicking of the left
- button toggles the highlighted scene between enabled and
- disabled. To view a demonstration of a scene, highlight the
- scene name then click the right mouse button. To end the
- demonstration move the mouse or click either mouse button.
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- Along the right-hand side of the scene list is a vertical
- bar with an arrow facing up at the top of the bar and one
- facing down at the bottom. This is the scroll bar. To move
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- To move the highlight up through the scene list place the
- mouse cursor over the upward facing arrow on the scroll bar
- and click the left mouse button. Repeated clicking will
- move the highlight to the top of the visible list of scenes
- and will scroll the list to display scene names that are not
- currently visible.
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- It is also possible to move through the list by placing the
- mouse cursor on the scroll bar itself and clicking the left
- button. If you place the mouse cursor at the top of the
- scroll bar and click, the highlight will be moved to the top
- of the list of scenes. If you place the mouse cursor at the
- bottom of the scroll bar and click, the highlight will be
- moved to the end of the list of scenes. If you place the
- mouse cursor in the middle of the scroll bar and click, the
- highlight will be moved to the middle of the list of scenes.
- Note that the scroll bar represents the entire list of
- scenes and not just those that are visible at the moment.
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- Password - Allows the user to enter a password for use with
- all the scenes. When password protection is enabled (see
- Configuration above) and a scene is active, the PC will
- remain locked with the scene active until the proper
- password is entered or the PC is turned off or otherwise
- rebooted.
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- When typing your password, the characters you type will be
- replaced by asterisks (*) on the screen so that no one can
- see what you have typed. When finished entering the
- password, press Control-Enter <CTRL><ENTER>. You will then
- be asked to reenter the password to confirm it. The
- password must be 20 characters or less. Your password is
- encrypted and saved with the other configuration data when
- you exit the password screen. It is not necessary to enter
- your password every time you turn on the computer, the
- password you select remains in force until you enter a new
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- Leave a Message - Allows you to leave a message on the
- screen containing up to 5 lines of 35 characters. Just type
- your message into the space provided on the message screen.
- Most editing keys (Arrows, Insert, Delete, etc.) are
- functional but automatic word-wrap is not provided. Each
- line of the message is automatically centered. Password
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- Desert Frog Screen Scenes v3.3 for DOS is a Terminate and
- Stay Resident (TSR) program. MS-DOS was not designed as a
- multitasking environment, so there is always a chance of
- conflicts between the resident program and the normal
- application running at the time. Try the suggestions listed
- here if you have a conflict between Screen Scenes and
- another program.
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- Problem: Screen Scenes pops up when I am running program X
- and messes it up.
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- Solution: Use the /G command line option to make Screen
- Scenes go to sleep before running the program and use the /W
- command line option to wake it up again once you are done.
- A batch file that implements this fix for a program called
- ELMER might look like this (if Screen Scenes is in the
- C:\DFSS directory):
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- C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE /G
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- C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE /W
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- Problem: Program X uses the same hotkey as Screen Scenes.
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- Solution: Use the /H command line option to set a different
- primary hotkey for Screen Scenes.
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- Problem: Screen Scenes won't pop up unless I am logged into
- the directory it is installed in.
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- Solution: On some systems Screen Scenes has trouble
- determining the full path by itself. First, unload Screen
- Scenes from memory using the /U command line option. Try
- running it again using the full path name. For example if
- Screen Scenes is stored on the C: drive in a directory
- called DFSS, run the program by entering C:\DFSS\SCRSCENE.
- If the program works correctly, you can use the full path
- name in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file as well.
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- Problem: My mouse behaves funny when I run program X with
- Screen Scenes installed.
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- Solution: Use the /N command line option to tell Screen
- Scenes not to check the mouse before popping up. With this
- option selected, Screen Scenes will pop up if all you are
- using is the mouse, but it will immediately stop execution
- when you next move the mouse.
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- Problem: Program X runs a lot slower than it used to.
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- Solution: Program X was probably using expanded memory for
- data or overlay storage and now Screen Scenes is using that
- memory. Run Screen Scenes with the /D command line option
- to force it to use disk space for storing it's overlays
- instead of using the expanded memory.
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- Problem: I get a message like "Swap path invalid or
- insufficient swap space" when I try to run Screen Scenes.
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- Solution: A message like this means one of two things. The
- first possibility is that you do not have a C: drive. When
- Screen Scenes needs to store it's swap files, it tries to
- store them in the C:\ directory. In this case you need to
- specify another drive using the /S command line option.
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- The second possibility is that your C: drive does not have
- enough memory to hold the Screen Scenes swap files. Screen
- Scenes requires as much as 1750K of hard disk space to hold
- all it's files. Delete some old files from your hard disk
- or use the /S command line option to specify a different
- drive to hold the swap files.
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- Problem: Screen Scenes works fine with all my programs
- except program X, which uses a DOS extender. If it pops up
- when program X is running, the system crashes.
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- Solution: Screen Scenes is incompatible with some DOS
- extenders, in particular the one from Phar Lap. Either
- activate this program with a batch file that puts Screen
- Scenes to sleep or manually put it to sleep before
- activating program X.
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- Problem: When Screen Scenes pops up over program X, which is
- a graphics mode program, the screen doesn't get restored
- properly after Screen Scenes is done.
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- Solution: Screen Scenes needs up to 195K of hard disk space
- to store the contents of the video card's memory when
- popping up over graphics mode programs. If there isn't
- enough hard disk space to store this information, the screen
- will not be restored properly. Provide some additional
- space on the hard disk for Screen Scenes to store this
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- It is also possible that program X is using a non-standard
- video mode which Screen Scenes does not recognize. Try
- running program X in a different video mode or put Screen
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- Problem: I can't get Screen Scenes to run on my machine, but
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- Solution: SideKick can cause problems for other TSRs.
- Screen Scenes tries to neutralize the problems but is not
- always able to do so. When it cannot, it won't load after
- SideKick. To resolve this problem you can try loading
- Screen Scenes into memory before SideKick. This may work
- fine. Screen Scenes should work just fine with
- SideKickPlus.
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- 6.0 THE SCENES OF SCREEN SCENES v3.3
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- The following three tables contain the names of the scenes
- and short descriptions of them. The first table contains
- the scenes which will run on any supported video system
- (CGA, EGA or VGA color systems). The second table contains
- normal scenes that will only run on VGA systems. The third
- table contains the fractals. The fractals were generated
- using FRACTINT, a program by the Stone Soup Group. A VGA
- system is required to run the fractal scenes.
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- NOTE: The names of some of the fractal scenes shown on the
- menu are dim and cannot be selected. These are the scenes
- that come on the Additional Fractal Scenes disk. See
- section 12.0 REGISTRATION AND SITE LICENSES for details.
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- Table 1: Scenes which run on CGA, EGA or VGA
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- Blocks - Fills the screen with colored blocks in up to
- 640x480 resolution.
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- Patchwork - Colored trails fill the screen leaving an
- ever-changing assortment of random patterns.
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- K - A large QIX-like creature roams the screen. K
- cycles through the range of colors supported by your
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- Melt Away - Your text melts down the screen and
- disappears.
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- Circles 1 - The original Circles scene from Screen
- Scenes v2.X. Fills the screen with colorful circles
- in up to 640x480 resolution.
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- Circles 2 - Fills the screen with colorful circles
- nested within other circles.
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- Circles 3 - A stream of multicolored circles bounces
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- The Spiral - Radiating lines spiral into and out of
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- Box Bounce - A creature made up of hollow boxes
- careens madly about the screen.
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- Digital Clock - A moving display of the current time.
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- Fission - Your text explodes character by character.
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- Lines - 2 QIX-like creatures dash around the screen,
- changing colors as they go.
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- Triangles - Fills the screen with colorful triangles
- in up to 640x480 resolution.
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- Beams - Colored beams randomly streak out from a
- central point. Suddenly the screen blanks and it
- starts anew from another location.
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- MC Escher - A continually changing geometric pattern
- that is reminiscent of an Escher print.
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- X-It - Look for the pattern that is eventually
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- Table 2: Scenes which require VGA
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- Kaleidoscope - Creates ever changing kaleidoscopic
- patterns.
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- Ladybugs - You can honestly tell people your system is
- buggy when you run this scene.
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- Crazy Fish - Our version of an aquarium. It is
- populated with fish the likes of which no one has ever
- seen.
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- Desert Frogs - Watch our namesake catch her dinner
- while changing her colors like a chameleon.
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- Table 3: Fractals
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- No specific description is given for these scenes.
- Their names are just what they reminded us of when we
- saw them in action.
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- Python Whirlpool Starburst
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- Paisley Spider Web Chainlink
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- 8.0 HOW TO CONTACT US
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- There are three good ways to contact Desert Frog Software.
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- Phone: (602) 843-0183
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- U.S. Mail: Desert Frog Software
- P.O. Box 10413
- Glendale, AZ 85318-0413
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- CompuServe: 70641,1102
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- Address your questions to Bill Mann.
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- 9.0 CUSTOM PROGRAMMING
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- Desert Frog Software provides custom programming services.
- We specialize in graphically-oriented applications for DOS
- and Windows and provide a high-quality scanning service.
- Custom versions of this program are also available.
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- To discuss your project contact Bill Mann at (602) 843-0183.
- We are located in Arizona, which is always on Mountain
- Standard Time. Our time is two or three hours earlier than
- on the East Coast and the same time as, or one hour later
- than, the West Coast, depending on time of year.
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- 10.0 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- Desert Frog Software provides free technical support to
- users of our products. Please see section 8.0 HOW TO
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- 11.0 OTHER DESERT FROG PRODUCTS
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- Desert Frog Software has produced some other screen saver
- programs you may be interested in. Our goal is to provide
- both the home and business user with screen saving coverage
- across DOS and Windows. To that end we have created DOS and
- Windows versions of ShowLogo, our business-oriented screen
- saver. We intend to create Windows versions of Screen
- Scenes and Fractal Mania when time permits.
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- 11.1 FRACTAL MANIA
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- Fractal Mania is a screen saver designed for fractal lovers.
- It displays only 256-color, palette-animated fractal scenes.
- Fractal Mania can support up to 100 different fractal
- scenes! Twenty additional scenes are currently available.
- Fractal Mania requires a VGA video system.
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- 11.2 SHOWLOGO
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- ShowLogo is a business-oriented screen saver. Both DOS and
- Windows versions are now available. Instead of the wild
- graphics that are displayed by Screen Scenes, ShowLogo
- displays a scanned or painted image in the popular .PCX
- format. ShowLogo allows you to display your own scanned or
- painted image, or you may have your image professionally
- scanned by Desert Frog Software. ShowLogo also allows the
- user to lock the system or leave a message. VGA and a hard
- disk are required. The DOS and Windows versions share
- configuration files so the settings you make in DOS carry
- across to Windows and vice versa. Please contact Desert
- Frog Software directly for more information.
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- 12.0 REGISTRATION AND SITE LICENSES
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- Please use the registration information for your country or
- region. If your location is not listed, use the US
- registration information.
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- All registered users receive the latest version of Desert
- Frog Screen Scenes, a printed manual, technical support,
- upgrade notices and reduced prices on upgrades.
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- Discounted site licenses are available for all Desert Frog
- products. See section 8.0 for information on how to contact
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- The registration fee for Desert Frog Screen Scenes v3.3 is
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- Screen Scenes Order Desk
- P.O. Box 10413
- Glendale, AZ 85318-0413
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