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*                         Amazing -- Clock                     *
*                           Screen Saver                        *
*                         Written by Mark Qian                  *
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Amazing is a series of screen savers where you experience a 
variety of incredibly wonderful views in or not in the world.  
It provides not only animations but also sound effects.  A 
major difference between Amazing and other screen savers is that 
Amazing is designed from the point of art - It is a life art! 
In this park, Clock, You will experience a mountain view through
different time of 24 hours. That is, the background will vary
according to the REAL TIME every two hours. Don't forget to setup your own
background sound in its setup screen - a FREE sound package, soundbk.zip, is available
in Mark's home page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_qian
You can also get it from WINAV, WUGNET, and WINGAM in Compuserver.
It also inlcudes some COOL utility 
functions such as MessagePad (which allows your visitors leave
you Text, Voice, Picture, and even Movie), Task Scheduler
(which allows you launch executable files at the time you specify),
and a cuckoo clock which sing at each hour.
Enjoy it!

IMPORTANT:
**********  

This is a shareware.  That means: TRY before BUY.  You should 
REALLY make sure that

    -- It works in your machine;
    -- You REALLY like to keep it;

before you register it.  It is provided AS IS.  There is not 
warranty.  Once you register it, it(its Registration Code)
can not be returned, exchanged, or refunded.



A COOL shareware, Savervisor is included. Savervisor is a Screen
Saver and Wall Paper Manager. It provides a lot of VERY COOL 
functions:

  - It appears as an icon that allows you launch a screen saver
    instantly by a single click of RIGHT mouse button.

 - It can be run in a INVISIBLE mode. With this great feature,
    you can just put it into Windows Startup group in Program 
    Manager and forget it: It will take care all the management 
    tasks while you never realize it is working for you!

  - It allows you specify the sensitive areas where you can click
    the RIGHT mouse button to launch a saver instantly.

  - It provide saver (and wallpaper) scheduling capability.  That is, 
    it allows you specify what saver(wallpaper) to be activate at a 
    specified hour through a week.  It also allows you switch savers 
    (wallpaper)through all the savers(BMP files) in your Windows 
    directory and specify switchng period.
 
  - more...


NOTE: Savervisor is an independent shareware which requires a
different registration.  That is, you have to register each of
them separately. Registration of any of them will NOT cover the
other.




Please read through following important description before you
run setup.exe:


A). What will be installed by setup.exe?

 The SETUP.EXE will copy five files into your windows directory:

 az_ck.scr  -- The main executable file of the saver;
 az_ck.txt  -- Documentation file;
 az_ck_0.bmp - az_ck_11.bmp -- animation images (required);
 az_ck_0.wav - az_ck_1.wav -- WAV files for sound effects;
 If Savervisor is included, the setup.exe will also
 copy
   
   saver.exe  -- Executable file for Savervisor;
   saver.txt  -- Documentation file for Savervisor;
 in to the directory that you specify and copy

   utility1.dll -- Utility file for Savervisor;
 in to directory c:\windows\system.

  SETUP.EXE WILL NOT MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGE TO YOUR COMPUTER.
 

B). Environment requirement: 
 - Super VGA
 - At least 256 colors for display;
 - VBRUN300.DLL;
 - A sound card is recommended;


  

C). How to install?

 "Step By Step" instructions for installation:

    1). VBRUN300.DLL(if you don't have one in your system);
      
      You can download VBRUN300.dll from following place:

        In compuserve, GO WINAV and search its library for
        file named vbrun3.zip

        In WWW, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_qian
 
        In Internet, ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/win3/dll

        In America Online, Go to software library and search for
        file named vbrun300.exe.

        After downloading and unziping it, you need to move it
        into Windows system directry, c:\windows\system.

  2). Copy az_ck.zip into a temporary directory, say c:\tmp;
  3). Unzip az_ck.zip within c:\tmp using pkunzip.exe;
  4). Run c:\tmp\setup.exe from File Manager(double click at the
icon of
      c:\tmp\setup.exe);
  5). If this package includes a utility, Savervisor, you will be
asked to
      key in the directory where Savervisor will be installed.
You need to
      either key in you own directory or use the default one. If
the 
      package does not include Savervisor, you will not see the
dialog.
  6). The setup program will then ask you choose from one of
following
         a). Run the saver now;
         b). Setup the saver now;
         c). Exit to Windows now;
       You need to choose one of them.
    Note: if you choose (click at) the first choice, "Run the
saver now",
          please don't move or click your mouse after click at
the choice.
          Otherwise, you will disable the saver right after you
enable it.

  If you like setup or test the saver that you have installed,
please open
  the Desktop of Windows Control Panel, select the saver from
Screen Saver
  section, and test or setup the saver.

D). TroubleShooting:
   
    Q:  I have downloaded your screen saver recently 
        and I was having a problem with getting it to work
properly.  
        After initializing I get a message "... caused a general 
        protection fault in module VGA.DRV at 0001:0ca2". 
  
    A:  Changed your screen driver in winsetup to SVGA.

 
E). How to get more information?

   Registration information is available in the setup screen of this program.

  For more information, please contact the author in following ways:   


    a). EMail the author at markqian@aol.com through Internet;
    b). EMail the author at Mark Qian through America Online;
    c). EMail the author at CIS-mail 76463,1251 through CompuServe;
    d). Mail the author at Mark Qian  P.O. Box 390235, Mountain View, CA. 94039-0235  USA.   

Author: Mark Qian.
  

