BocaSoft WipeOut Version 1.2 BocaSoft Incorporated 117 NW 43rd St. Boca Raton, FL 33431 INTRODUCTION ------------ BocaSoft WipeOut is a 32 bit screen saver for OS/2 featuring numerous animated displays integrated with digital audio, password protection, screen capture, randomizer, and on-line help. A developer kit is included that allows the development of new savers. WipeOut also provides support for IBM Ultimotion and Intel Indeo full motion video. BocaSoft WipeOut requires OS/2 Version 2, a 3.5" floppy disk drive and 2 MB of disk space. Digital audio or video require MMPM/2, which is included with OS/2 2.1, and a supported audio card. The software has been tested on OS/2 2.0 with MMPM/2 1.0 in addition to OS/2 2.1 with MMPM/2 1.1. A variety of screen resolutions such as 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 have been tested. All currently supported audio cards have been tested including the IBM M-AUDIO, Sound Blaster and Media Vision Pro-Audio Spectrum. NEW FUNCTIONS ------------- Several new capabilities have been added to Version 1.2, they include; 1. Idle Time Animation setting that allows WipeOut to run at a lower priority to let other applications run better while WipeOut is active. 2. Support for 256 color bitmaps has been added. 3. This version of WipeOut includes support for Berkeley Systems Inc. After Dark screen saver modules ( .AD ). Modules tested include those from the After Dark saver, More After Dark, The Star Trek Collection, and the Disney Collection. MicroSoft Scenes Screen Saver support is included via the After Dark module but palette problems in OS/2 Seamless cause distortion in The Scenes images. The After Dark support included in BocaSoft WipeOut requires that a full After Dark Saver product be install and resident in the WIN-OS/2 environment on your system. BocaSoft WipeOut controls and runs After Dark savers in a seamless WIN-OS/2 session. In addition to the WipeOut program, After Dark support requires that the BocaSoft AD Server program also be running. The BocaSoft AD Server program must be started before the WipeOut program, if it is not problems will occur. The BocaSoft AD Server program will automatically "inject" it self into any common seamless session that is running on your system, saving resources. If no session is available the Server will create one when started. Audio for the After Dark modules is generated from the WIN-OS/2 environment. You must install the appropriate drivers in your WIN-OS/2 environment to support your audio card. You may also use the PC Speaker driver in the WIN- OS/2 session. The driver may be selected in the WipeOut After Dark settings dialog via the Sound push button. When audio is selected for the After Dark savers it will prevent audio from being generated on the WipeOut "native" savers while the After Dark server is running. When the server is exited audio will be restored for the "native" savers. This is due to the audio device contention problem associated with MMPM/2 audio devices. 4. WipeOut now supports time-out and hot keys in all OS/2 sessions including OS/2, DOS, and WIN-OS/2 full Screens. This feature is not available in the Demo version. NOTES ----- 1. If you have removed the current directory (.) from your LIBPATH statement in config.sys problems occur with accessing WipeOut library files. 2. A know problem in the IBM SVGA driver causes font distortion in the billboard and message shuttle savers. 3. The Ultimotion video portion of MMPM/2 must be installed to run the video screen saver. 4. MMPM/2 subsystem problems may cause WipeOut to lose audio is some cases. If this occurs WipeOut should be restarted. 5. In some cases the video subsystem can exhibit a variety of problems including traps or system hangs. An patch to the MMPM/2 1.1 release for video is available from IBM for these problems. 6. When running WipeOut on OS/2 Version 2.0, some applications may exit abnormally. To alleviate this problem start WipeOut with a /H parameter. 7. Ultimotion videos do not appear correct in 16 color mode, such as VGA. 8. If you are running with Idle Time Animation on you may notice that WipeOut will not animate the screen with certain DOS/VDM applications active. To allow WipeOut to blank and animate, but still use minimal time slices, set the DOS application's IDLE_SENSITIVITY setting down to a value of less than 30. 9. Monochrome bitmaps, that is 1 bit color, are not supported. 10. After Dark support does not include multi-modules. 11. After Dark support requires the BocaSoft AD Server to be started first or problems will occur when trying to use the mouse on the parent dialog. This is an OS/2 bug which has been reported to IBM. Simply exit WipeOut, start the server and restart WipeOut to work around this problem. 12. The After Dark Fireworks saver module does not work at this time. 13. The MIDI Mapper configuration must be setup in WIN-OS/2 to support music/ sound for After Dark modules that use it. Examples include several of the After Dark Disney Collection Savers. 14. The Confetti Factory saver will have redraw problems after the first time through.