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Date:	Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:30:23 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: WipeOut

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Wayne wrote:

> 1. Does anyone know of a freeware screensaver for use with Warp4 that will
> display my own jpg files?
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> 2. I looked on Hobbes for a suitable screensaver, and the files there are
> all quite old, with little or no description. I chose to download one named
> "Wipeout" that looked like a possibility, but then I had a problem with the
> install process. Perhaps someone will know what my problem was:

I've been using WipeOut almost as long as I've used OS/2. I think I bought a license before it became freeware -- can't recall now -- but in any case, I later won a full commercial pkg. of it at a SCOUG raffle. The link Steven pointed you at should get you past that install
peculiarity.

> Can anyone recommend a screen saver program that will display my own jpg
> files, or tell me what to do to get Wipeout to install so I can find out if
> that program will do what I wish?

The WipeOut pkg. was *supposed* to include a build-your-own-screensaver kit. (I don't know whether it was supposed to cover JPGs, though.) Anyway, the boxed program I got at the raffle did not have this. Perhaps it was too early a version. The d/l archive on Hobbes etc. does
not seem to have it either. (But you would want the 2.052 update, in any case.) From a brief description I saw somewhere, the procedure for doing this sounded fairly technical. Except for that, it is a feature I truly missed. Later versions of WipeOut were also able to use the
older IBM DeskPic format screensavers, and I still use one of these -- Fireworks -- which is quite lovely.

There was another screensaver, called Blanker (from Germany ?), that later became another product with a different name. I think this one is still shareware, and can't say if it has the roll-your-own capability. Other than that, the only other one I've heard of was a commercial
program called Escape GL, from Snowstorm Software. Also don't know if that one had such a feature.

Circa Win 3.x versions of After Dark (may be called "After Dark Classic") were supposed to work in Win-OS/2, but I did not have much luck with this.

If you find out something re this subject, please let us know.

Jordan

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