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- Maze.spx
- By Russell Poffenberger CIS 72401,276
- E-mail poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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- 1.) This Screen Peace saver module creates a random maze of corridors 10 pixels wide across
- the screen. After drawing this maze, the computer solves it and displays its progress by
- drawing a line through the corridors. The speed at which it draws and solves the maze is
- dependent on the speed of the CPU. A 25Mhz 386 gives a good display, slower systems will of
- course perform the drawing and solving slower. Probably anything less than a 12Mhz 286 will
- be somewhat lethargic.
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- 2.) The maze self adjusts to the size of the screen. An 800 X 600 display gives a good
- picture, but just about anything better than a CGA will look good.
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- 3.) The algorithm uses a fair amount of memory, so real mode with several running programs
- like the file manager and such may have taken too much memory to allow the maze saver to
- run. If this is the case, bringing up the "options" menu of Screen Peace will not show the
- screen saver in its list of known savers. There should be no problem in standard or 386
- enhanced with about 96K of total free memory.
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- Any questions, or ideas on more screen saver modules, please drop a line.
-