AgBlankers1.1

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
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New, unique blankers for the Garshneblanker package (bugfix release)
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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