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Animated Screen version 6.1 for Windows 95/98/2000/NT
(C) 1997-2000 PY Software, Inc.
sales@pysoft.com
http://www.pysoft.com
Description:
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Animated Screen lets you create Windows screen savers, stand-alone
presentations and animated .GIF files that you can give to your friends
and customers or publish at your Web site. You can also use Animated
Screen to start your own screen saver business, selling custom shareware
screen savers, with your company listed as the author.
There are no distribution fees and, as an Animated Screen owner,
you can distribute the animations that you create in unlimited
quantities, royalty-free.
Animated Screen lets you combine an unlimited number of words,
sounds (in .WAV, .RMI and .MID formats,) and pictures (in .BMP, .GIF,
.JPG or .AVI formats.) When working with words, Animated Screen lets
you determine the font, text color, and background color;
you can also add special effects like shadows and extrusion.
When working with sounds, you can use pre-recorded WAV or MIDI
sound files, or you can use your PC and microphone to record your
own soundtracks. When working with pictures, you can place multiple
images on each screen, and determine how the images come and go,
using both fixed and random placement as well as special effects
such as bouncing images off the screen's borders, dropping
images like raindrops, or creating fascinating star-and- meteor effects.
You can distribute your Animated Screen presentations as Windows .SCR
screen saver files, as stand-alone .EXE files, or as self-extracting
files that will automatically install your presentations into your
users' Windows System folders and set them up as standard screen savers.
Animated Screen compresses your files so that they can be sent
easily over the Internet.
Animated screen is fastest tool for creating animated .GIF banners.
Key features include:
Smart frame and palette optimization
One palette generation from multiple images
Support for a wide range of image file formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG and AVI)
Drag-and-drop image insertion and composition
Visual composition
View multiple frames simultaneously
Global attribute change commands
Complete palette control
Layer image merging and export support
Banner text creation
Palette editing support
Infinite looping control
Changes in the new 6.1 version:
Some bugs were fixed.
System Requirements:
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Pentium(R) based IBM PC compatible computer (or higher);
64MB RAM;
20MB free disk space;
Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0;
A mouse;
A color monitor with a 65536 colors card;
A sound card is recommended;
A recording hardware (a microphone) is recommended.
Protection:
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Animated Screen is distributed as Shareware. This is not Freeware or
Public Domain. You may use the shareware version for 30 days.
If after 30 days you would like to continue using it, then You
should purchase a license. After you pay, you receive Registration
Name and Registration key from the author to tell Animated Screen that
you have paid the shareware fee.
Paying:
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When you purchase an Animated Screen home license, you can sell
or give away the screen savers that you create, but they will list
PY Software as the author in the program's "settings" box.
When you purchase the Animated Screen commercial license,
you can enter your company into the program's "settings" box,
and create shareware screen savers with shareware reminders,
registration names and registration keys that allow users to register
your screen savers with your company. Site license covers a single
organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius.
For creating animated .GIF or .AVI files, it will be enough
to purchase limited license for $29 US.
Paying for Animated Screen is fairly simple.
Postal, e-mail and fax paying:
Open the Register program, that accompanies Animated Screen, by starting
the file REGISTER.EXE. Enter your name, your email address, and the
license you desire to purchase. Save or Copy or Print the data from
the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware.
Email: shareware@kagi.com
FAX: +1 510 652 6589
Postal address:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-PZ
Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
USA
Telephone Orders:
Kagi takes telephone orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Kagi phone number is:
+1 (510) 658-5244
The system provides answers to common questions and if you wish to place an order
it will transfer your telephone call to an answering service.
Online registration via Internet:
Online registration is available at secure order form:
http://www.pysoft.com/registration_fr.html
For further information open the REGISTER.HLP file.
The fee for registered version of Animated Screen is:
single license for creating animated .GIF files only $29.00;
single home license $49.00;
single home license with educational discount $29.00; *
site home license $490.00; **
world-wide home license $990.00; ***
single commercial license $99.00;
single commercial license with educational discount $49.00; *
site commercial license $790.00; **
world-wide commercial license $1900.00; ***
* You can purchase a license with educational discount if you are a student,
faculty member or staff member of an educational institution (K-12, junior
college, college or university).
** Site license covers a single organization for an area of up to one
hundred miles (160 km) in radius.
*** World-wide license covers everyone in a single organization.
Installation:
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Run ASCRSTP.EXE program and follow the instructions.
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The program does not place any of parts in the Windows system directories
and does not modified Windows libraries.
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Starting:
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Start ANIMSCR.EXE from Windows environment (by double click in
Windows Explorer for example).
Uninstallation:
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1. Click the Start button
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Select Animated Screen and click the Add/Remove... button
6. Click the Yes button to confirm deletion
or manually
delete all files in the directory created for Animated Screen
and delete the directory too.
Delete shortcut of Animated Screen from your Startup group (folder).
Run REGEDIT.EXE program and delete key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PySoft\Animated_Screen
from the registry.
Distribution terms:
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Animated Screen may be distributed freely in its original unmodified and
unregistered form. The distribution have to include all files of its
original distribution.
ASCRSTP.EXE
README.TXT
If you like to bundle Animated Screen with other programs, goods, services,
etc. you are selling in a registered form please feel free to contact us
at: sales@pysoft.com to figure out the conditions.
If you would like to distribute Animated Screen or other PY Software products,
please contact sales@pysoft.com
Disclaimer of warranty:
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This software is sold "as is" and without warranties whether expressed or
implied. Because of the various software and hardware environments into
which this program may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular
purpose is offered.
Limitations of Damages:
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PY SOFTWARE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS
OF PROFITS, OR THE LIKE), WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF PY
SOFTWARE OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE
FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.