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- Midnight® Screen Blanking System
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- ©1994 Imagine Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Engineered by Trevor Andrews
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- Imagine Software, Inc.
- 1218 South 5th Street
- Lafayetee, IN 47905-1716
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-
- Preface of the Midnight Screen Blanking System
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- TITLE
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- Midnight - Modular screen/mouse blanking system
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- VERSION
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- Version 2 Revision 08
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- AUTHOR
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- Trevor N. Andrews
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- DESCRIPTION
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- Midnight is a modular screen blanking system designed
- with AmigaDOS 2.x/3.x in mind. A few of its features
- are listed below:
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- - Screen Mode selection in all modules with AGA support
- - Standard 2.x Preferences interface
- - Font sensitive window
- - Enforcer/Mungwall Proof Code
- - Public screen support
- - GadTools interface
- - IFF Preference file
- - Separate Dameon and GUI
- - Amiga Guide support (library is optional)
- - NT/PT music support in every module!
-
- Currently, the following blanker modules are available:
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- - ALock (Full featured security system)
- - Nightfall (Simple black screen)
- - Rainbow (Bouncing lines with 256 colours in AGA)
- - Shuffle (Slides selectable pieces around)
- - Mindmelt *(An AfterDark inspired module)
- - PhaseFade (Fade to black)
- - Fireworks (Traditional fireworks with 256 colours in AGA)
- - Textual (Floats text around)
- - Spotlight (Your screen has just broke out of jail)
- - IceMelt *(Screen melts like an ice cube)
- - Starfield (Prepare for space flight)
- - Random (Randomly chooses your modules)
- - Breadth (It's strange...)
- - Worms (They crawl in and they crawl out!)
- - Aquarium ("Under the sea", are you singing along?)
- - FlyingToilets (Those flying creatures are up to trouble again)
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- * Not included in this release.
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- Additional features include:
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- - Concise message signaling system
- - OS friendly mouse blanker
- - Support for detection of gameport
- - Random blanker selection mode
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- Installation Procedures
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- · AmigaDOS 2.0 is the only requirement, however, we recommend 2.1 or higher
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- whith a hard drive to take full advantage of all the features.
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- Quick -- "To see what it's like..."
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- Double click on Bprefs.
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- Double click on Midnight and set your preferences,
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- see "Menus", "Gadgets", or "Shell interface"
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- Workbench Installation:
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- Drag @{"BPrefs" link BPrefs} to your "SYS:WBStartup" draw.
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- Drag Midnight, the preference software, to your "SYS:Prefs" draw.
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- Drag the Blankers draw to any desired location, such as "WORK:".
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- Place Midnight.guide or Midnight.reference into your desired manual draw.
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- See "Quick", above.
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- Shell Installation:
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- Users wishing to install Midnight via the command line interface should
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- be familiar with Workbench enough to translate the above procedure to
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- fit their particular needs.
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- Updating your Registered Copy from a Newer Demo Version.
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- The only difference between the "Demo" versions and a full paying
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- registered version is the executable "BPrefs". In most cases the
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- version of BPrefs will remain the same so you can just extract
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- everything except BPrefs from the Demo version. When major updates
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- come along I will send you a letter on how to upgrade. Usually you
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- can just grab the Demo upgrade off your local network or send me a
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- disk. Only certain upgrades will require payment, namely updates
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- to BPrefs.
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- AmigaDos Reference
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- MIDNIGHT
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- Format: MIDNIGHT [FROM <filename>] [filename]
- [EDIT] [USE] [SAVE] [PUBSCREEN <screen>]
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- Template: FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S,PUBSCREEN/K:
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- Purpose: To specify different settings for screen
- and mouse blanking.
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- Required: AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
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- Optional: AmigaGuide Library. (Recommended)
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- Path: SYS:Prefs/Midnight
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- Specification:
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- MIDNIGHT without any arguments or with the EDIT argument
- opens the Midnight editor. The FROM argument lets you specify a
- file to open. This must be a file that was previously saved with
- the "Save As" menu item of the Midnight editor. PUBSCREEN is
- used to specify an alternative screen to open on.
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- NOTE: If using saved preferences from icon, make sure Midnight is
- in your Workbench's path.
-
-
- AmigaDos Reference
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- BPREFS
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- Format: BPREFS [QUIT] [KEY]
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- Template: QUIT/S,KEY/S (KEY is for registered users only)
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- Purpose: Daemon to implement different settings for
- screen and mouse blanking.
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- Required: AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
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- Optional: (nothing)
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- Path: SYS:WBStartup/BPrefs
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- Specification:
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- BPREFS takes as arguments QUIT and KEY (only for registered users).
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- QUIT...Forces BPrefs to shut down and exit.
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- KEY....Authentication Encryption Key report.
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- NOTE: If you change your keyboard type, you will need
- to run (reset) BPrefs!
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- Midnight's Copyright
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- Midnight is Copyright 1994 Imagine Software Inc.
- All rights reserved.
-
-
- Redistribution and use in ANY form, with or without modification, is NOT
- permitted (Free distribution of the unmodified DEMO version is allowed).
-
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY IMAGINE SOFTWARE INC. "AS IS" AND ANY
- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL IMAGINE SOFTWARE INC. BE
- LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
- SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
- BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
- WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
- OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
- EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
- Commercial use of this product is strictly prohibited. Please contact
- us for licensing agreements.
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- The cost of Midnight is $15 US (No foreign cheques) and our address
- is as follows:
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- Imagine Software, Inc.
- 1218 South 5th Street
- Lafayette, IN 47905-1716
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-