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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:05:59 PST8
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: crt screen burn -- screensaver ?

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J. R. Fox writes:

> Wayne replied:
>
>> I'm using "Wipeout" with my own photos. It's available from Hobbes:
>>
>> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=wipeout&stype
>> =all&sort=type&dir=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fapps%2Fscrnsave
>>
>
> I'm a longtime WipeOut user, and I think I've had about three distros of the
> last couple versions of the program, incl. a rare retail box that I won at a
> SCOUG raffle. Each of these was supposed to include a "Do-It-Yourself"
> screensaver kit or module, but I don't believe that any of them actually did.
> So my question to you is 'Just HOW do you make use of your own photos, images,
> graphics, etc. for this purpose ? ' What is the procedure, and are you limited
> to one or two formats ?
>
> Jordan
>

Jordan, it's been a long time since I installed it, so I don't remember
details. It's possible that the ability to generate slideshows to send to
your friends may be limited to the Windows version of WipeOut. I've done it,
I'm just not sure HOW I did it (I do also have Windows).

But as I recall, when you run the WipeOut install program under OS/2, it
puts a WipeOut icon on your desktop which brings up the WipeOut program with
page tabs allowing you to make some choices; for instance on the main tab
you can choose "Slideshow" (which I did... but there are other screensaver
graphics file effects you could choose instead of a photo slideshow). On the
"Wiper Options" tab you can designate how long to display each "slide", the
directory that contains your jpg files, and you can choose how the
slide-to-slide transitions should look, etc. The info on the tab pages
changes depending on your choice of screensaver type on the main tab page.
You can use the PF1 key on each tab page to get more info about the page.

If you choose "Slideshow" without designating a directory of your own
photos, it uses some surfing jpegs named Wipeout1.jpg to Wipeout6.jpg.... so
you CAN just find the directory that contains them, delete them (or
move/save them elsewhere), and put your own photos in that folder; or as
mentioned above, you can point to the directory that contains YOUR jpegs.

If you use WipeOut to generate a diskette sreensaver to send to your friends
for a simple screensaver install, you're limited to the number of jpeg files
you can fit on a diskette; if to a hard drive folder there's no limit.

One issue I haven't bothered to chase down.... after a lengthy period of
time, the slideshow stops and thereafter a graphic of a surfer floats across
a black screen endlessly.

Wayne

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