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Short: Decay - Pixel-loss blanker for BServer 1.7
Uploader: agraham@hal9000.net.au (Ali Graham)
Author: agraham@hal9000.net.au (Ali Graham)
Type: util/blank
Requires: BServer 1.7
Version: 0.2
This is a simple blanker that clones the topmost screen
and then eats away at it bit by bit....
The rate of decay is configurable.
(Hey, I know it's pretty simple, but so are my C
coding skills :)
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LEGAL STATUS
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Do with it what you will. But hey, if you add something
to it, release it under a different name so I don't get
confused.
Any damage caused to anything - anything at all - is
not my fault, ESPECIALLY where this program is concerned.
It's free. Don't expect to be able to sue me as well.
If you can figure out a way to charge money for this
program, then you're a smarter person than me and I
think we should form a software company together :)
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INSTALLATION
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Just copy the executable 'Decay' from the clients/
directory of the distribution into your BServer clients/
directory.
(& add Wrecked to the 'ClientList' file if necessary --
see the BServer docs for more details.)
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CONFIGURATION
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The blanker accepts the following argument, either
specified in the 'ClientList' file or typed into
the string gadget in the BServer GUI:
RATE/N The number of pixels that will turn black
every frame [i.e. between every WaitTOF()].
Range - between 1 and 1000. Default - 100.
(If the value is outside the specified range, then
it will be limited to the extremes of the range.)
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SOURCE
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... is available in this archive. It's my second C program
larger than a few lines long - and even then I ripped the
guts of it from some of the BServer example sources.
(My first was Wrecked, another extremely simple BServer
blanker :)
I don't know much about C, although I do about the Amiga
OS, so all you C coders out there feel free to correct my
numerous mistakes... but hey, the program works for me.
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HISTORY
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v0.01 First compiled version.
v0.02 First (and maybe last) release.
* Added the RATE argument.
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FUTURE
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Should I bother? Answers on a postcard, please, to the
above email address :)