Life Screen Saver v1.2 for Window95\98\NT\2000 -- readme.txt

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Game of Life Description:
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 Basically you have 2 dimensional area of cells.
 Each cell`s lifetime relies on its neighboring cells. 
 A group of 3 cells gives life to an empty cell.
 If a cell doesn`t have 2 or 3 cells around it, it dies.

 This creates interesting patterns.

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Changes:
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-Old installer had some issues that have been addressed.
-Screensaver now initially defaults to reasonable values.

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Normal Installation:
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run Setup

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Instructions for manual installation & removal:
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 Copy Life.scr, Life.nfo and all bitmaps to your Windows directory.

 Registry removal:
  Delete the key, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LifeScrnSaver

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Settings:
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 Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel
 Go to Display Properties
 Select the Screen Saver tab
 Select "The Game of Life" in the Screen Saver combo
 Click Apply
 Click Settings to access Life`s Controls
 
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Controls:
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 Activity Bar:
  Displays a readout of the current Cell Population and 
  Life Generation in the upper left corner.

 Mini-Display:
  Displays a small overview of the screen in the upper right corner.

 Frame Screen:
  Frames the cell area.

 Color:
  Sets Activity Bar, Mini-Display and Frame color.

 Initial Seed:
  Initialize the Random Number Generator.
  (Zero will generate a random initial seed.)

 Initial Population:
  Population to start and replenish the cell area.

 Delay: 
  Sets the delay in milliseconds.

 Faces:
  Selects the bitmap to use for frames.

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Creating Custom Life Frames:
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 1) Create a bitmap consisting of a horizontal array of frames with 
    uniform dimensions. The first frame is always the clear cell frame.

    If you create multiple columns of frames, they should all share
    the same width, height, born-end & die-start properties.

 2) Open the life.nfo file that should be in your Windows directory
    (most likely C:\Windows or C:\Winnt).

 3) Add your new frames properties to the life.nfo file in the following format:
    <bitmap name><cell width><cell height><frames><columns><born-end><die-start>

    Example: myframes.bmp 16 16 30 1 10 20

    Important: When indicating your <born-end> & <die-start> frames, 
    begin counting from zero (zero being the first frame).
 
 4) Copy your new frames to the Windows directory.

 5) Go to the Life Dialog Box in the Control Panel and select your new 
    entry in the Faces combo box.

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Status:
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Public Domain

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Contact:
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Brandon Barba
wayoverclocked@aol.com

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Please distribute this text with any redistribution of my program.
Thank you. Enjoy!
