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 TITLE Midnight - Modular screen/mouse blanking system VERSION Version 2 Revision 08 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 in all modules with AGA support - Standard 2.x Preferences interface - Font sensitive window - Enforcer/Mungwall Proof Code - Public screen support - GadTools interface - IFF Preference file - Separate Dameon and GUI - Amiga Guide support (library is optional) - NT/PT music support in every module! Currently, the following blanker modules are available: - ALock (Full featured security system) - 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...) - Worms (They crawl in and they crawl out!) - Aquarium ("Under the sea", are you singing along?) - FlyingToilets (Those flying creatures are up to trouble again) * Not included in this release. Additional features include: - Concise message signaling system - OS friendly mouse blanker - Support for detection of gameport - Random blanker selection mode  Installation Procedures · AmigaDOS 2.0 is the only requirement, however, we recommend 2.1 or higher whith a hard drive to take full advantage of all the features. Quick -- "To see what it's like..." Double click on Bprefs. Double click on Midnight and set your preferences, see "Menus", "Gadgets", or "Shell interface" Workbench Installation: Drag @{"BPrefs" link 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. Updating your Registered Copy from a Newer Demo Version. The only difference between the "Demo" versions and a full paying registered version is the executable "BPrefs". In most cases the version of BPrefs will remain the same so you can just extract everything except BPrefs from the Demo version. When major updates come along I will send you a letter on how to upgrade. Usually you can just grab the Demo upgrade off your local network or send me a disk. Only certain upgrades will require payment, namely updates to BPrefs.  AmigaDos Reference MIDNIGHT Format: MIDNIGHT [FROM ] [filename]  [EDIT] [USE] [SAVE] [PUBSCREEN ] 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!  Midnight's Copyright Midnight is Copyright 1994 Imagine Software Inc. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in ANY form, with or without modification, is NOT permitted (Free distribution of the unmodified DEMO version is allowed). THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY IMAGINE SOFTWARE INC. "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL IMAGINE SOFTWARE INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Commercial use of this product is strictly prohibited. Please contact us for licensing agreements. The cost of Midnight is $15 US (No foreign cheques) and our address is as follows: Imagine Software, Inc. 1218 South 5th Street Lafayette, IN 47905-1716