


                      BocaSoft WipeOut Version 1.0

                         BocaSoft Incorporated
                         117 NW 43rd St.
                         Boca Raton, FL 33431


INTRODUCTION
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BocaSoft WipeOut is a 32 bit screen saver for OS/2 featuring numerous 
animated displays integrated with digital audio, password protection, screen
capture, randomizer, and on-line help. A developer kit is included that 
allows the development of new savers. WipeOut also provides support for IBM
Ultimotion and Intel Indeo full motion video.

BocaSoft WipeOut requires OS/2 Version 2, a 3.5" floppy disk drive and 2 MB
of disk space. Digital audio or video require MMPM/2, which is included with 
OS/2 2.1, and a supported audio card.

The software has been tested on OS/2 2.0 with MMPM/2 1.0 in addition to 
OS/2 2.1 with MMPM/2 1.1.  A variety of screen resolutions such as 640x480, 
800x600, and 1024x768 have been tested.  All currently supported audio cards 
have been tested including the IBM M-AUDIO, Sound Blaster and Media Vision 
Pro-Audio Spectrum. 

NEW FUNCTIONS
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Several new capabilities have been added to Version 1.0A, they include;

1. Idle Time Animation setting that allows WipeOut to run at a lower priority 
   to let other applications run better while WipeOut is active. 

2. A beep has been added to the screen capture function to let you know when a 
   screen has been successfully captured. 

3. Support for 256 color bitmaps has been added.

NOTES
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1.  WipeOut does not currently support automatic time-out for full screen DOS,
    OS/2 or WIN-OS/2 sessions. All programs run on the OS/2 desktop in seamless
    WIN-OS/2, windowed DOS and windowed OS/2 sessions are supported. This 
    feature will be supported in a future release.

2.  If you have removed the current directory (.) from your LIBPATH statement
    in config.sys problems occur with accessing WipeOut library files.

3.  A know problem in the IBM SVGA driver causes font distortion in the 
    billboard and message shuttle savers.

4.  The Ultimotion video portion of MMPM/2 must be installed to run the video
    screen saver.

5.  MMPM/2 subsystem problems may cause WipeOut to lose audio is some cases. 
    If this occurs WipeOut should be restarted.

6.  In some cases the video subsystem can exhibit a variety of problems 
    including traps or system hangs. An patch to the MMPM/2 1.1 release for 
    video is available from IBM for these problems. 

7.  The rotate saver can not operate on OS/2 Version 2.0, it will not be loaded
    and will not appear in the saver list box. It will also not work with OS/2 
    2.0 or 2.1 when running in 64k color mode, but it will be listed. This is 
    due to known bugs in OS/2.

8.  When running WipeOut on OS/2 Version 2.0, some applications may exit
    abnormally. To alleviate this problem start WipeOut with a /H parameter.

9.  Ultimotion videos do not appear correct in 16 color mode, such as VGA. 

10. If you are running with Idle Time Animation on you may notice that WipeOut 
    will not animate the screen with certain DOS/VDM applications active. 
    To allow WipeOut to blank and animate, but still use minimal time slices, 
    set the DOS application's IDLE_SENSITIVITY setting down to a value of less 
    than 30.

11. Monochrome bitmaps, that is 1 bit color, are not supported.

12. A change made to work around a bug caused by Novell Netware causes the 
    Deskpic Beta Module Demo button to break. Users with this problem should 
    download the new version of the Deskpic Module from CompuServe.
