Flippy is an After Dark module which scrambles your screen by flipping portions of it around in an effect similar to the old rotating gas station signs. To do its magic, it uses offscreen Graphics Worlds (GWorlds), so it requires System 6.0.5. Users of 68000 machines will need to use System 7 to run Flippy.
This After Dark module is based on an idea from my roommate, Allon Stern. It is distributed (again, by Allon's suggestion) under the SillyWare System; If you like it, perform a Monty Python Silly Walk in a crowded mall. Thank you. :)
It may be distributed freely as long as no money is charged and this 'About Flippy' file is included.
I enthusiastically thank Susan Hammer of Apple Computer for providing general support and helping me obtain documentation (the voluminous Inside Mac VI), without which this and other programs I've written could not exist.
Please contact me via email or postcard if you have questions or comments or just to tell me that you use Flippy. Thanks!
Version 1.1 fixes three problems:
¥ Flippy now works correctly on multiple-monitor systems, and flips rectangles on each of the monitors.
¥ Version 1.1 will also never generate out-of-memory errors while flipping. In the case that it runs out of memory starting a flip, it will simply retry with a smaller size flip rectangle. Version 1.0 would simply give up and display an error -151.
¥ The "No Animation" setting of the smoothness control, which due to a bug did absolutely nothing in version 1.0, now flips random rectangles without the flipping animation. This was its original intended operation.
