USER INSTRUCTIONS: IMAGES OF CREATION - WINDOWS SCREEN SAVER Your screen saver program has been installed into the Windows(tm) Desktop of the Control Panel. BE CERTAIN YOUR MONITOR IS SET TO 256 COLOR PALETTE. If you have an old generic VGA monitor which can only display 16 colors, I'm afraid these images will look terrible. Sorry. Accessing your screen saver is easy and requires only three steps: I. Double Click on the Control Panel II. Open the Desktop Item III. Select your screen saver, set delay, and password via Setup. ======================================================================= I. Load the Control Panel The Control Panel is generally found in the MAIN group of your Program Manager. Execute the Control Panel by double clicking the Control Panel icon. If you cannot find the MAIN group or the Control Panel icon, you can run the control panel from the File Manager by double clicking CONTROL.EXE in your main Windows directory (usually called WINDOWS). ======================================================================= II. Run the Windows Desktop To run the Desktop of the Control Panel, double click the Desktop icon in the Control Panel. ======================================================================= III. Select your screen saver Use the 'Screen Saver' area of your Desktop screen to select your screen saver. You may use the Test button to preview your screen saver and the Setup button to assign a password and activate/deactivate your mouse. ######################################################################### FOUR GOOD REASONS TO REGISTER! 1) YOU WILL RECEIVE ELEVEN (11) ADDITIONAL EXTRAORDINARY, UNIQUE MYTHIC IMAGES OF CREATION. (Actually, you will get 12 new photos because the painting with the registration reminder will no longer have text upon it.) 2) THE REGISTRATION REMINDER WILL NOT APPEAR DURING YOUR SLIDE SHOW. 3) You will be supporting an important project in which Reality Software seeks to make available to art enthusiasts, design pros and those working in multimedia, royalty free images at $1.00 each. Compare that price with those typically charged by stock photography agencies whose lowest, one time use fees are usually $100. 4) You can absolve yourself of guilt because you have just acquired at no cost three exceptional, mythic paintings to use as you wish, royalty free. 5) You will have access to our tech support. Ben Blumenberg, Reality Software, P.O. Box 105, 1015 Main Street Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105, U.S.A. Phone: (207) 832-7348 - Most days noon to 9 PM EST. Internet - bennett@pipeline.com (almost daily mail run); or ben.blumenberg@swcbbs.com CompuServe - 71044,1645 ************************************************************************* SCREEN SAVER ORDER FORM: IMAGES OF CREATION v1.0 To order, simply fill out this form and mail to: REALITY SOFTWARE, P.O. BOX 105, WALDOBORO, ME 04572-0105 U.S.A. 3 1/2" HD Disks Only - Quantity _____ x $US15 = Total ______ NOTE: Reality Software is a small company and cannot accept credit cards or bank drafts in foreign currencies. Please remit in $US or International Money Order with such drafts made out to Ben Blumenberg. Price includes shipping and handling costs to anywhere on this planet. Residents of the state of Maine, please add the 6% sales tax. NAME ______________________________________________________ COMPANY ___________________________________________________ ADDRESS __________________________________________________ TOWN/CITY _________________________________________________ STATE/PROVINCE ____________________________________________ ZIP or POSTAL CODE _______________COUNTRY _________________ Where did you acquire creat1wn.zip? _________________________ Internet E-mail address for announcements, catalogs, etc. ____________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************ LICENSE AGREEMENT: IMAGES OF CREATION v1.0 What 'Royalty Free' means. As owner of either the shareware version or registered version of this screen saver, you have a single user license. You have also acquired royalty free rights to the use of the individual graphics files: file names are given below. Understand that this royalty free license applies only to the USE of the images, NOT to the reproduction and sale of the graphics files themselves. These images may be used as design elements in any publication or software product that you author, whether or not it is offered for sale in the retail marketplace. Examples of legal use would be illustrations in multimedia, catalogs, paper or e-books. Illegal examples of image use would include the design of your own screen saver using these graphics files and/or their incorporation into retail image file collections of any sort. For these latter uses, please contact Reality Software for a duplication-resale license that pertains to the graphics files themselves. Needless to say, it is also illegal for you to redistribute and resell this screen saver product. YOU MAY NOT COPY AND DISTRIBUTE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, BE IT PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL, ANY OF THE ORIGINAL FILES THAT COMPRISE THIS PRODUCT. This means that you cannot redistribute in any manner this screen saver product as your own publication. File List: atomic2.pcx, *atomic2a.pcx (nag screen), bluesky3.pcx, burst2.pcx, comsic2.pcx, egglens2.pcx, flare2.pcx, *flower2.pcx, mother2.pcx, *night2a.pcx, star2.pcx, tower2.pcx, wave.pcx, whirl4.pcx, *wrinkle2.pcx and yinyang2.pcx: * shareware graphics files. ************************************************************************* THE MYTHOS OF CREATION These paintings evolved through fractal generation and were then subjected to a transformative evolutionary process with state-of-the-art computer art programs. As fractals, this art cannot exist without the computer because the generation of such imagery is not possible within traditional physical mediums. The computer thus emerges as a primary creative force in this realm, yet it must be guided and structured by the human mind. As the iterative equations that produce fractals are continuously seeded with the results of the preceding calculation, and thus produce great variety within recognizable boundaries, so may you find an infinity of detail structured upon thematic similarities in this art work. What makes these paintings human is the metaphoric context layered onto them by the artist and observer. As they interact with our minds, such paintings become poetic and mythic. Hidden within this beauty is a meditation upon both the macrocosm and microcosm. The range of creative force encompassing both the birth of stars and galaxies, as well as permeating the mother whose ultimate creation is her offspring. Fractals both resemble and differ from the parent. Similarity and difference are archetypal qualities of all the creations of the universe, be they inanimate or quite alive. These qualities forever co-exist to fascinate and challenge us. It Remains To Be Seen It remains to be seen whether stars will burn forever in an expanding universe or if black holes are sucking tunnels of antimatter imploding upon themselves in an ever-continuing spiral towards infinity. And if the end is imminent, will intelligent life be there to witness the cyclic birth of new universes beyond the horizons of infinity, or will we collectively have already passed sentence on our own worlds? But it still remains to be seen whether flesh and blood are universal commodities or if the mind's eye can perceive the deities who dictate form as whims of surreal dreams in a level of reality that precludes our own existence. Maybe the reality is found in the mythos of unborn souls considering rebirth, floating through the ethos like fairies, creating our existence from dewdrops on petals and laughing as we contemplate the thought. Leslie Berger (c) 1995 ************************************************************************* RELEASES SCHEDULED FOR 1995 AND BEYOND! Reality Software is now releasing a series of screen savers whose theme is antique transportation. Each registered version will contain 15 royalty free, 8 bit TIF images in 256 grey scale. These photographs are rare: most exist as single prints made by photographers many, many decades ago, some more than a century old. These archival images are of extraordinary interest, to historians, hobbyists and design professionals. The majority have never been published before in any medium and their intrinsic interest is exceptional. The originals comprise our personal collection which took many years to accumulate. This series offers you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a collection of the rarest transportation photography which is truly of museum quality. Except for an occasional old stereo card, there is no possibility that you would see any of these prints in the public marketplace. Each individual photograph has been meticulously restored to remove negative and print damages while maintaining the historical integrity of the image. 1) Two collections which feature 19th century locomotives were released in late 1994: several more are planned for 1995. There are no duplicate photos among the collections. See catalog.txt. 2) In early 1995 we released the first of several screen savers which feature classic sailing ships such as 19th century schooners. The format will remain the same: each volume contains 15 different, royalty free images. 3) In 1996, we plan to publish screen savers that feature archival photography of early trolley cars, electric trains, bicycles, late 19th and early 20th century warships and early aviation. The format of each registered product will remain the same: 15 superb, royalty free images for $15. Stock photo agencies typically charge license fees in excess of $100 for commercial use of their images. There will be no duplicate photos throughout our entire collection of archival transportation screen savers. *********************************************************************** See catalog.txt on disk 2 or 3 to read about our 1) archival photo and visionary art collections; and 2) extraordinary e-books for DOS and Windows in ancient history and the history of religion. *********************************************************************** Copyright 1995 Leslie Berger Blumenberg Reality Software P.O. Box 105 1015 Main Street Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105 Phone: (207) 832-7348 Internet - bennett@pipeline.com (almost daily mail run); or (least preferred) 71044.1645@compuserve.com Original Visionary Computer Art: Leslie Berger Blumenberg Software Production: Ben Blumenberg ************************************************************************