***************************************************************** * * * Amazing -- Rivers * * Screen Saver * * Written by Mark Qian * * * ***************************************************************** Amazing is a series of screen savers where you experience a variety of incredibly wonderful views in or not in the world. It provides not only animations but also sound effects. A major difference between Amazing and other screen savers is that Amazing is designed from the point of art - It is a live art! In this park, Rivers, You will experience a variety of wonderful River views. It also inlcudes some COOL utility functions such as MessagePad (which allows your visitors leave you Text, Voice, Picture, and even Movie) and Task Scheduler (which allows you launch executable files at the time you specify). Enjoy it! IMPORTANT: ********** This is a shareware. That means: TRY before BUY. You should REALLY make sure that -- It works in your machine; -- You REALLY like to keep it; before you register it. It is provided AS IS. There is not warranty. Once you register it, it(its Registration Code) can not be returned, exchanged, or refunded. A COOL shareware, Savervisor is included. Savervisor is a Screen Saver and Wall Paper Manager. It provides a lot of VERY COOL functions: - It appears as an icon that allows you launch a screen saver instantly by a single click of RIGHT mouse button. - It can be run in a INVISIBLE mode. With this great feature, you can just put it into Windows Startup group in Program Manager and forget it: It will take care all the management tasks while you never realize it is working for you! - It allows you specify the sensitive areas where you can click the RIGHT mouse button to launch a saver instantly. - It provide saver (and wallpaper) scheduling capability. That is, it allows you specify what saver(wallpaper) to be activate at a specified hour through a week. It also allows you switch savers (wallpaper)through all the savers(BMP files) in your Windows directory and specify switchng period. - more... NOTE: Savervisor is an independent shareware which requires a different registration. That is, you have to register each of them separately. Registration of any of them will NOT cover the other. Please read through following important description before you run setup.exe: A). What will be installed by setup.exe? The SETUP.EXE will copy five files into your windows directory: az_rv.scr -- The main executable file of the saver; az_rv.txt -- Documentation file; az_rv_0.bmp - az_rv_9.bmp -- animation images (required); az_rv_0.wav - az_rv_1.wav -- WAV files for sound effects; If Savervisor is included, the setup.exe will also copy saver.exe -- Executable file for Savervisor; saver.txt -- Documentation file for Savervisor; in to the directory that you specify and copy utility1.dll -- Utility file for Savervisor; in to directory c:\windows\system. SETUP.EXE WILL NOT MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGE TO YOUR COMPUTER. B). Environment requirement: - Super VGA - At least 256 colors for display; - VBRUN300.DLL; - A sound card is recommended; C). How to install? "Step By Step" instructions for installation: 1). Download the latest version of in_mt.zip and VBRUN300.DLL(if you don't have one in your system); You can download VBRUN300.dll from following place: In compuserve, GO WINAV and search its library for file named vbrun3.zip In WWW, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_qian In Internet, ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/win3/dll In America Online, Go to software library and search for file named vbrun300.exe. After downloading and unziping it, you need to move it into Windows system directry, c:\windows\system. 2). Copy az_rv.zip into a temporary directory, say c:\tmp; 3). Unzip az_rv.zip within c:\tmp using pkunzip.exe; 4). Run c:\tmp\setup.exe from File Manager(double click at the icon of c:\tmp\setup.exe); 5). If this package includes a utility, Savervisor, you will be asked to key in the directory where Savervisor will be installed. You need to either key in you own directory or use the default one. If the package does not include Savervisor, you will not see the dialog. 6). The setup program will then ask you choose from one of following a). Run the saver now; b). Setup the saver now; c). Exit to Windows now; You need to choose one of them. Note: if you choose (click at) the first choice, "Run the saver now", please don't move or click your mouse after click at the choice. Otherwise, you will disable the saver right after you enable it. If you like setup or test the saver that you have installed, please open the Desktop of Windows Control Panel, select the saver from Screen Saver section, and test or setup the saver. D). TroubleShooting: Q: I have downloaded your screen saver recently and I was having a problem with getting it to work properly. After initializing I get a message "... caused a general protection fault in module VGA.DRV at 0001:0ca2". A: Changed your screen driver in winsetup to SVGA. This program is a shareware. You are welcome to distribute this package (az_rv36.zip) by any means: copy it to your friends, upload it to your favorite BBSs or On-line systems. However, it is NOT a freeware. You will be able to use(evaluate) it up to 30 times or 30 days. You then have to register(pay fee to its author) if you still want to use it after that. Registration information is available in the setup screen of this program. You can contact the author in following ways: a). EMail the author at markqian@aol.com through Internet; b). EMail the author at Mark Qian through America Online; c). EMail the author at CIS-mail 76463,1251 through CompuServe; d). Mail the author at Mark Qian P.O. Box 390235, Mountain View, CA. 94039-0235 USA. Author: Mark Qian.