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MaxonMAGIC
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· Animated Screenblanker
· Many different effects
· Crazy soundprogram
MaxonMAGIC is a completely new and unique program, which will
make your Amiga do things you never even thought of.
When you are not working, MaxonMAGIC will entertain you with
animated and funny screenblankers und also save your monitor
from burning in.
You can choose between 15 colorful effects, like an aquarium
with lots of fishes, a flying breakfast or a melting workbench
screen.
But MaxonMAGIC will make even more impossible things come true:
your Amiga will learn to talk to you. Doing certain actions, it
will give some funny or naughty comments. Samples can be defined
for system functions or freely definable texts, which offers
infinite possiblities of combinations. The samples have highest
level of quality and can be expanded by your own samples.
MaxonMAGIC includes two disks full of samples with many
different sounds or spoken comments, which guarentee a lot of
variety.
Features
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· many funny screenblankers (Aquarium, Clock, Crazy Worms,
Eyes, Fireworks, Flying Breakfast, Lissajous, Messages,
Password, Plasma, Rain, Spots, Stars, WBJoke, WipeOut)
· the screenblankers can be combined with samples or songs
· Samples can be defined for keys, alerts, filerequester,
autorequester, opening/closing of sceens and windows,
mouseclicks and changing of disks
· Samples can be played at certain times, at starting of
certain programms and at output of free definable texts
· Samples can be held in RAM or be loaded from (hard)-disk and
also be played at random
· runs on any Amiga with OS 1.3 to 3.0, min 1MB RAM, ECS- or
AA-Chipset and graphic boards
About this demo
===============
· This demo of MaxonMAGIC does only include three effects:
CrazyWorms, Eyes and WBJoke
· The demo will say "Demo" every thirty seconds
· Every ten seconds you will be reminded that you are working
with the demo
· You can't save the program's settings
Distribution
============
This demo version of MaxonMAGIC is freely distributable. The
complete program is commercial and available from MAXON Computer
(currently only with German manual) for 79,- German Marks.
We are still looking for distributors all over the world. Don't
hesitate to contact us:
MAXON Computer GmbH
Industriestr. 26
D-65760 Eschborn
Germany
Tel: ++49-6196-481811
Fax: ++49-6196-41137
E-Mail: postmaster@maxon.adsp.sub.org
Short manual
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Blankers
========
After you installed and started MaxonMAGIC you can pop up its
main window by pressing the keys <Shift-F1>. This window
contains all settings. The left side shows the available
effects, the right side the different options for the selected
effect. The buttons "Global", "HotKey" and "Modul" switch
between the fololowing options:
Global
------
Time: The time in minutes and seconds after which the
blanker is activated
Volume: The volume samples are played with
Pri: The priority MaxonMAGIC gets in multitasking
Mouse: For mouse acceleration
CPU idle: You can define how much CPU time has to be available
for the effect to be started. This is useful if the
is busy working (e.g. a raytracer). In this case
MaxonMAGIC will only open a black screen which
won't need any CPU time at all.
Hotkey
------
You can define the hotkeys for the main window and for
activation of the blanker. Examples are "SHIFT F1", "ALT F3"
or "CTRL SHIFT 1".
The cycle-gadget "Mouse" lets you choose at which position
the mouse pointer is activating the blanker (e.g. top left).
Module
------
This lets you change the settings for the active effect, like
number of objects or speed.
Every effect has two stringgadgets for defining a FTM-song
or sample, which are played while the effect works.
The gadget "Demo" lets you preview the effect with the actual
settings.
Audio
=====
The gadget "Audio" brings you into a new part of MaxonMAGIC
which allows you to define samples for certain system functions
and actions.
The left side shows the available actions, the right one shows
the available samples.
The left hand cycle-gadget lets you select one of three modes
which define how a sample shall be handled if there is another
one already playing:
Next sample waits, Next sample cancels, Ignore next sample
The two cycle-gadgets below the list of samples let you switch
samples on or off and choose if a sample shall be loaded from
disk if needed or kept in RAM all the time.
Events
------
MaxonMAGIC offers you a lot of events samples can be defined for.
The five Gadgets "Actions", "Keys", "Program", "Texts" and "Time"
switch between different groups of events.
Actions:
You can define samples for the system events
Alert, ASL-Requester, Auto Requester, Close Screen, Close Window,
Disk inserted/removed, Left Mousebutton, Open Screen, Open Window,
Right Mousebutton
Keys:
Samples can be defined for different groups of keys. The samples
should not be loaded from disk but be kept in RAM.
Program:
The list of events will be empty first. You now have to define
programs you work with. When starting one of these programs
the defined sample will be played.
Simply type in the file name of the program in the string-gadget.
If don't remember the correct name use the file requester by
clicking on the left gadget. After pressing of Return or selecting
"Load" in the file requester the program's name is added to the
list above.
Texts:
This part is very similar to the program-part. It lets you define
samples for any sort of texts. The sample is played when the text
is printed by a program or the system itself.
Select the N-gadget, type in the text and press Return. The text
will be added to the list above. The sample will also be played if
your text is only part of a printed string. Also it is not case
sensitive.
Time:
You can define samples for certain times. The list offers every hour
from 1 to 24 (1 am to 12 pm), every hour and quarters of a hour.