Short: New Garshneblankers, Bugfix release Author: karlheinz.agsteiner@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de Uploader: karlheinz agsteiner informatik tu-chemnitz de Type: util/blank Architecture: m68k-amigaos AgBlankers ---------- New, unique blankers for the Garshneblanker package (bugfix release) -------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides five new blankers for Garshneblanker 3.6: * Mathematical figures like Lissajous, but much better * Iterated function systems (inspired by "fire" for xlock) * Cube Art like the mondrian demo * A fast simulation of waterfalls * Important lamps like seen in Star Trek and other movies The behavior of all the blankers can be modified by the standard Preference system Garshneblanker offers. Since blankers are no big programs the archive contains separate binaries for MC68000, MC68020, MC68030, MC68040. No special FPU versions, however. The blankers include full source code (SAS/C), a manual and even demo pictures for a first look. Of course, all the contents of this archive are PD. Version 1.1 fixes two problems: 1. I included different prefs files for the 68000 and the 68020/30/40 versions meeting the different performances of different processors. Unfortunately these prefs files contained information about the screenmode to use. Therefore, everyone who had no DblNTSC installed on his 020/030/040 machine only got a black screen. This version includes no prefs files. Because of this You have to experiment a bit in order to get an appropriate set of parameters. Thanks to Colin Thompson and Arthur Hagen for notifying me of this problem. 2. Fixed a serious bug in "water" found by Roberto Patriarca: When the system wasn't idling, the blanker would crash. The cause was that I inserted code between the initialization routine and the test if this routine succeeded that used (not necessarily) initialized data giving a division by zero error if Garshneblanker aborted Water during its initialization routine. Thanks, ...., for the very precise bug report. It made it a question of minutes to find the bug. Karlheinz Agsteiner -- karlheinz.agsteiner@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~kas/agsteiner.html