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          SCREEN SAVER CONSTRUCTION SET  

                  Version 2.0a 

                November 6, 2000

            Updated to Patch Level 4
            Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT 

  http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/scspro.html 



              ALCHEMY MINDWORKS INC. 
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 http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html 
             alchemy@mindworkshop.com 
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  TO REGISTER SCREEN SAVER CONSTRUCTION SET  
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Screen Saver Construction Set is shareware. We invite 
you to evaluate Screen Saver Construction Set to see 
if it's suitable for your needs. If you like it, please 
register it. If it turns out not to be what you need, 
or if you don't feel it's worth registering, please 
delete it from your hard drive and accept our thanks 
for trying it out. If you do productive work of any 
sort with this software, you are no longer evaluating it.

The registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 
is $30. Add $5.00 shipping if you'd like the current 
version sent to you on CD-ROM.

After installing Screen Saver Construction Set, check out 
the Registration and Technical Support document and the 
Order Form document in the program's folder for information 
on the many options available to register, or order the 
program on CD-ROM, by phone, fax, mail or via our on-line 
secure server. 

The unregistered evaluation copy of the most recent release 
of Screen Saver Construction Set may be distributed freely 
in its unaltered state as long as the means of distribution 
are in keeping with Alchemy Mindworks' current policies for 
shareware distribution. The current policies are summarized 
in the Shareware Distribution file which is added to the 
program's folder during installation of the program. 



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  ABOUT THIS DOWNLOAD 
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This download contains these files, 

-- readme.txt   -- which you obviously have found, 

-- file_id.diz  -- a brief description text file, 

-- pad_file.xml -- a portable application description file, and 

-- scsp20.exe   -- the application install program which is: 
                   -- version 2.0a updated to patch level 4;
                   -- for Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT;
                   -- 3,014,656 bytes in length.

New functionality is added to Screen Saver Construction Set 
from time to time. So it is recommended that you visit the 
program's information page, on occasion, to see if there is 
an update. The Screen Saver Construction Set's information 
page is http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/scspro.html. 

The Alchemy Mindworks CRC for scsp20.exe is 61 13 80 FE

A CRC value can be used to check the integrity of a file 
you have downloaded. By assuring that the CRC check value 
shown here matches the CRC check value for the file in 
question, you will reduce the possibility of attempting 
to install a damaged archive to about one in 4,294,964,296 
-- odds even longer than those of winning most state-run 
lotteries. 

You must have the Alchemy Mindworks CRC software installed 
on your system to perform this check. Please visit our CRC 
page to download the CRC software if you do not currently 
have it. It's small, free and a valuable asset to make 
sure that your Alchemy Mindworks software has not been 
damaged in transit.



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  INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
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Screen Saver Construction Set requires a Pentium or better 
processor. A display adapter and a Windows screen driver 
capable of displaying more than 256 colours are recommended. 

Screen Saver Construction Set is the ultimate platform to 
build distributable multimedia Windows screen savers. 
Fast, flexible and easy to use, it will let you assemble 
screen savers of your own design out of pictures, text and 
sounds. It will import graphics from most popular formats, 
including JPG, PCX, TGA, BMP and PNG, and sounds from WAV 
and MIDI files. 

Screen Saver Construction Set also includes ANIMAL, a 
powerful development environment that will provide you with 
the tools to build screen savers to do just about anything 
you can imagine. The ANIMAL programming language is dead 
easy to master, even if all your previous computer 
programming has involved an eight-pound sledge hammer and 
a chain saw. 

The extensive documentation and tutorials included with 
Screen Saver Construction Set will typically get you up to 
speed in less than twelve seconds. Your performance may 
vary slightly, but it will still be impressively quick. 

Build screen savers of your family, your corporate logo, 
advertisements for your products, desktop themes or your 
most inventive fantasies. 

The following summary is provided for your convenience, and 
is not considered to be part of the distribution conditions 
for screen savers created by Screen Saver Construction Set. 

  - You have to pay for Screen Saver Construction Set before you 
    distribute its screen savers.

  - Having paid for Screen Saver Construction Set, you can distribute 
    screen savers 'til the cows come home.

  - You don't have to pay us a dime for the screen savers you make 
    once you've paid the registration fee. If you're doing something 
    commercial with them, we sincerely hope your screen savers make 
    you unspeakably rich.

  - You can't say you're us, or involved in any sort of business 
    relationship with us. We couldn't get the lawyers to explain why 
    anyone might want to do this.

  - You agree that if anything goes wrong with a screen saver you 
    create with Screen Saver Construction Set, you won't try to sue 
    us or otherwise give us a hard time.

  - Don't try to hack the Setup dialog in the screen savers you create. 
    Trust us -- this would be a really bad idea.

  - If you create a screen saver with Screen Saver Construction Set 
    that's unspeakably vulgar and tasteless and the culture police send 
    you up the river for fifteen to life for being tacky, don't try to 
    implicate us in your lapse of decorum.



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  SCREEN SAVER CONSTRUCTION SET'S FUNCTIONALITY 
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Screen Saver Construction Set's facilities include:

  - Build screen savers effortlessly.

  - Import graphics from many other popular Windows applications.

  - Add sound effects and background music to your screen savers.

  - Add applets of your own devising. 

  - Distribute your screen savers with no run-times or DLLs to lose.

  - Create professional Windows installers for your screen savers.

  - Password-protect your screen savers to keep your work safe.



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  INSTALLATION OF SCREEN SAVER CONSTRUCTION SET 
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Extract the file scsp20.exe from this zipped file to a temporary 
folder such as c:\temp

Please install Screen Saver Construction Set through the 
Run item of your Start menu. It is recommended that you close 
all applications before installing. Installing it through 
Explorer or Add/Remove Programs will usually fail very colourfully. 

The self-extracting Windows archive installs Screen Saver 
Construction Set. Follow the prompts that guide you through the 
install procedure. After installation, the source file scsp20.exe 
can be deleted from the temporary folder.

You must have a minimum of 11 megabytes of free hard drive space to 
install this package. Part of this space is used for temporary files 
created by the installer, and will be freed as soon as the 
installation is complete. 



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  TO UNINSTALL SCREEN SAVER CONSTRUCTION SET 
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Use Add or Remove Programs under the 
Start -- Settings -- Control Panel.
 




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