About Mike's Screen Saver Collection

This is a collection of four screen savers for Windows: Melt, Smear, Hole, 
and Suck.  Each screen saver has full password protection and has the
ability of the user to change the speed of each effect.

Melt will create the effect of melting your screen.  You may change the 
direction the screen melts away, i.e. Down, Up, Right, or Left.

Smear will create the effect of smearing your screen.  You may determine
the x & y sizes of the smear block, as well as the speed by changing the
x & y offsets between each block smear.  Try offsets of 1 for both x & y
for a blatant smear.  Small offsets combined with a large smear block 
creates a larger distortion.  Experiment.

Hole is similar to melt, but will melt the screen out towards all sides,
leaving a hole in the center of the screen.

Suck is the opposite of Hole, creating the effect of sucking the screen
out a small hole in the center of the screen.  I like this the best.


Installing Mike's Screen Saver Collection

Copy the *.SCR files to your Windows directory (Most likely C:\WINDOWS).  
From the Program Manager within Windows double click the Main folder.  
Within the Main folder, double click the Control Panel icon and then double 
click the Desktop icon.  Open the list of names within the Screen Saver 
section of the Desktop and select one of the screen savers: Hole, Melt, 
Smear, or Suck.  You can then click the Setup button to bring up the 
Screen Saver Setup screen.  

The Shareware Concept

Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying
it.  If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are
expected to register.  


DISCLAIMER

Users of Mike's Screen Saver Collection must accept this disclaimer of
warranty: "Mike's Screen Saver Collection is supplied as is.  The author
disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without
limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any
purpose.  The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or
consequential, which may result from the use of Mike's Screen Saver
Collection."


LICENSE AGREEMENT

Mike's Screen Saver Collection is a "shareware program" and is provided at
no charge to the user for evaluation.  Feel free to share it with your
friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another
system.  The essence of "user- supported" software is to provide personal
computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to
provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.  If
you find this program useful and find that you are using Mike's Screen
Saver Collection and continue to use any of these Screen Savers after a
30 days, you must make a registration payment of $5.00 to Mike Hemming.  
The $5.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one 
computer at any one time.  You must treat this software just like a book.  
And examples that this software may be used by any number of people and 
may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as 
there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being 
used at another.  Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons 
at the same time.  As a bonus of registration, you will receive the next 
upgrade or possibly a future product free of charge.

Anyone distributing Mike's Screen Saver Collection for any kind of
remuneration must first contact Mike Hemming at the address below for
authorization.  

You are encouraged to pass a copy of Mike's Screen Saver Collection to your
friends for evaluation.  Please encourage them to register their copy if
they find that they can use it.  All registered users will receive a copy
of the latest version of Mike's Screen Saver Collection.


How do I register?
	
To register, all you need to do is write your name, address, and version
number of Mike's screen saver collection on piece of paper and mail
it, along with a check or money order for $5.00 US to:

	Mike Hemming
	2505 S Calhoun Rd #212
	New Berlin, WI 53151
	
	I may also be contacted at: mhemming@execpc.com via the Internet.

If this version is not the most up-to-date version, you will be sent the
newer version.  

This is my first attempt at writing shareware.  I would greatly appreciate
any comments or bug reports concerning these screen savers.  

The idea(s) came from programs I had seen on an Amiga years ago.