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- Hang Fire © comes with a number of modules for you to use to save your screen.
-
- If you write any modules (see the Writers file) please add them to this
- list so other can read something about them (including who you are
- and where you can be contacted--remember this is how you will spread
- you fame far and wide for your magnifcent module!)
-
- The modules currently included with Hang Fire © are:
-
- o Black Attack (Deflault)
- This is the built-in effect. It clears the screen to black.
-
- o Bouncy 24 Hour Clock (Clock)
- (Jason Williams + bits by Edouard Poor)
- This is a simple effect that Jason Williams converted from his
- ModeUtils program. Because of how it worked in Jasons program it
- only works properly in 16 colour screen modes (eg mode 12.)
- I find it useful because it gives off very little light, which
- for my BBS machine is perfect (I don't want the burglars seeing
- a monitor glowing in a room at 4am... Might give them ideas.)
- [Actually, it works in ModeUtil due to being plotted as a wimp icon
- so the WIMP colourtranses it correctly, whereas the HF module plots
- the sprite itself without ctransing - JW]
-
- o Dripping Desktop (Drip)
- (Edouard Poor)
- A lot of people like this effect, even though it is only 5 lines
- of actual code.
- Simple but effctive.
-
- o Endless Balls (Balls)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Draws balls ala Balls64.c
- I was hoping that RiscOS 3 would do automatic dithering of the colours
- so this would look good in any mode. Alas it did not. If anyone knows
- how !Draw in RO3 does its dithering, please drop me a line explaining
- (or better still convert the Endless Balls code to do it and send that
- to me. Save me having to write it, and it will count as a valid
- donation of a module (see the help file) for the purposes of registering.)
-
- o Exploding Rose (RoseExpld)
- (Edouard Poor)
- I saw this effect in another screen saver and rather liked it. I copied
- the effect without looking at the original source (took *at*least* 10
- minutes...) and am quite pleased with the end result. Nice and simple
- but rather nice to look at.
-
- o Fire Flies (FireFlies)
- (Edouard Poor)
- The first effect I did, and I still rather like it. Nice, but a little
- heavy on the bandwidth (blame Acorns rather sad attempts at fast screen
- IO code...)
-
- o IFS (IFS)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Well, ummm, I haven't actaully finished this yet... It'll be really
- good when I do... Or someone else came give it a go?
-
- o Kalidoscope Number 1 (KScope1)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Not bad. A little more variety is perhaps needed?
-
- o LEDs (LEDs)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Very low bandwidth (lowest I've done yet--it hardly even registers
- on the speed of the machine.)
-
- o Lyapunov Chaos Space (Lyapunov)
- (Edouard Poor)
- A forced oscillation choas equation. Doesn't look quite as good as the
- one in Scientific American but its nice enough.
-
- o Rainbow Lines (Lines)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Yes! Bouncy line! Rainbow coloured even!
- Well I like this sort of thing, and it is the standard form of effect
- on most screen savers.
- Good.
-
- o Raindrops keep falling... (RainDrops)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Very simple.
-
- o Simple (Simple)
- (Edouard Poor)
- This is an example of how not to write screen savers. It is, as its
- name suggests, very simple. I shoe how to do a couple of minor conversions
- to make it 'legal' Hang Fire © code in the 'Writers' file.
-
- o Sliding Puzzle (Puzzle)
- (Edouard Poor)
- A classic. Its looks even better if you have some sort of background
- picture for it to move about.
-
- o Socrates Number 1 (Soc1)
- (Edouard Poor)
- A sort of spirograph type saver.
-
- o Spinning Rosette (NewRose)
- (Edouard Poor)
- My latest and one of the best. Its a very nice effect that always seems
- to be just that tiny bit different then it was a minute ago. Based
- somewhat on the After Dark © 'Rose' effect.
-
- o Starburst Fireworks Show (Fireworks)
- (Edouard Poor)
- Well they're a lot better then all the other fireworks displays I've
- seen so far... Now all I have to do is make the explosions dissapear
- as if they were blown away by a light wind...
-