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Midnight® Screen Blanking System
©1994 Imagine Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Engineered by Trevor Andrews
Imagine Software, Inc.
1218 South 5th Street
Lafayetee, IN 47905-1716
Preface of the Midnight Screen Blanking System
VERSION
Version 0 Revision 07
AUTHOR
Trevor N. Andrews
DESCRIPTION
Midnight is a modular screen blanking system designed
with AmigaDOS 2.x/3.x in mind. A few of its features
are listed below:
- Screen Mode selection (AGA support) in most modules
- Standard 2.x Preferences interface
- Font sensitive window
- Enforcer Proof Code
- Public screen support
- GadTools interface
- IFF Preference file
- Seperate Dameon and GUI
- Amiga Guide support (library is optional)
Currently, the following blanker modules are available:
- Nightfall (Simple black screen)
- Rainbow (Bouncing lines with 256 colours in AGA)
- Shuffle (Slides selectable pieces around)
- Mindmelt *(An AfterDark inspired module)
- PhaseFade (Fade to black)
- Fireworks (Traditional fireworks with 256 colours in AGA)
- Textual *(Floats text around)
- Spotlight (Your screen has just broke out of jail)
- IceMelt *(Screen melts like an ice cube)
- Starfield (Prepare for space flight)
- Random (Randomly chooses your modules)
- Breadth (It's strange...)
* Not included in this pre-release.
Additional features include:
- Concise message signaling system
- Mouse blanker (OS friendly with gameport support)
- Random blanker selection mode
Installation Procedures
Quick -- "To see what it's like..."
Double click on Bprefs.
Double click on Midnight and set your preferences.
Workbench Installation:
Drag BPrefs to your "SYS:WBStartup" draw.
Drag Midnight, the preference software, to your "SYS:Prefs" draw.
Drag the Blankers draw to any desired location, such as "WORK:".
Place Midnight.guide or Midnight.reference into your desired manual draw.
See "Quick", above.
Shell Installation:
Users wishing to install Midnight via the command line interface should
be familiar with Workbench enough to translate the above procedure to
fit their particular needs.
AmigaDos Reference
MIDNIGHT
Format:
MIDNIGHT [FROM <filename>] [filename]
[EDIT] [USE] [SAVE] [PUBSCREEN <screen>]
Template:
FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S,PUBSCREEN/K:
Purpose:
To specify different settings for screen
and mouse blanking.
Required:
AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
Optional:
AmigaGuide Library. (Recommended)
Path:
SYS:Prefs/Midnight
Specification:
MIDNIGHT without any arguments or with the EDIT argument
opens the Midnight editor. The FROM argument lets you specify a
file to open. This must be a file that was previously saved with
the "Save As" menu item of the Midnight editor. PUBSCREEN is
used to specify an alternative screen to open on.
NOTE: If using saved preferences from icon, make sure Midnight is
in your Workbench's path.
AmigaDos Reference
BPREFS
Format:
BPREFS [QUIT] [KEY]
Template:
QUIT/S,KEY/S (KEY is for registered users only)
Purpose:
Daemon to implement different settings for
screen and mouse blanking.
Required:
AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
Optional:
(nothing)
Path:
SYS:WBStartup/BPrefs
Specification:
BPREFS takes as arguments QUIT and KEY (only for registered users).
QUIT...Forces BPrefs to shut down and exit.
KEY....Authentication Encryption Key report.
NOTE: If you change your keyboard type, you will need
to run (reset) BPrefs!