Damsel Software Group presents ...
DAVE'S DIGITAL ABSTRACT ART SCREEN SAVER, VOL 1 

Compatible with Windows 3.1, 3.11, and Windows 95.

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* For Power Users who want to get right to the program *
* the Screen Saver is now loaded. Exit this text file  *
* and go right to where Windows stores its own screen  *
* savers.  This screen saver will be listed in that    *
* group as Dave's Dig'tl Art 1.  Select it. That's it. *
*******   If you need more help, keep reading.  ********
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This file contains information on the following subjects:

	1.  Your Registered Product 
	2.  Copyright Information
	3.  Minimum System Requirements
	4.  Setting Up Your Screen Saver
	5.  Screen Saver Function and Features
	6.  JPEG Image Compression
	7.  Monitor Display
	8.  Wallpaper and Image List
	9.  Uninstalling Your Screen Saver
	10. Warranty Information
	
In order to assist the reader, the older Windows 3.x  instructions have been
left intact.  Windows 95 instructions, where different, are either given 
their own sentences or are indicated by the use of parentheses.

This is the only time this README.TXT file will appear automatically. In the
future you can read the file by coming back to your Windows 3.x Notepad, 
located under Accessories in your Program Manager menu, and opening the 
README.TXT file found in the DDA1JP directory, or by two clicks on the 
filename directly from within File Manager.  In Windows 95 the Notepad is 
reached from the Start button followed by Programs\Accessories\Notepad.  
You may also read the file from your C:\> DOS prompt by typing 
TYPE C:\DDA1JP\README.TXT | MORE.  You may exit this file at any time by 
clicking on the minus sign of Windows 3.x's Notepad window at the upper 
left-hand corner, or by clicking on the "X" Close button in Windows 95's 
Notepad upper right-hand corner.

This README.TXT file can be printed in a variety of ways.  In MS-DOS you can 
print it at any time from your C:\DDA1JP> prompt by typing 
COPY README.TXT PRN and pressing Enter.  Within Windows it can be printed 
from the Notepad or from any other word processing program that can open a 
.TXT file.  In Windows' Notepad you should set File\Page Setup\Left Margin 
to as low a value as possible before printing to insure that each line will 
print in its entirety.  This text file will not appear during the actual 
running of the screen saver.


1.  YOUR REGISTERED PRODUCT

Your registered copy of Damsel's Dave Martsolf, Digital Abstract Art Vol 1
entitles you  to a free User's Guide, a Catalog of other Damsel products and
unlimited technical support.  To obtain any of these items all you need to 
do is write to us at the address shown below or call us at 603 485-2677.  
Please be sure to state which program you have purchased to insure you 
receive the correct User's Guide.  The Catalog is shipped automatically with
each request.  Unless you specifically request otherwise your name will also
be placed on our mailing list for future product offerings and updates.  
Mail all requests to:

		Damsel Software Group
		P.O. Box 713
		Concord, NH 03302-0713

If you have a technical question, problem, or even a helpful suggestion, 
write to us at the above address or call our phone/fax at 603 485-2677.  
Phone service will usually require us to return your call, so please be 
sure to leave both your number and the times during which you would like us 
to return your call.  


2.  COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

The images contained in Damsel products may be used as wallpaper or as 
baseline images for private processing without restrictions.  All commercial
uses of the images contained within this screen saver are prohibited without
prior authorization or arrangement with Damsel Software Group.  The images
cannot be resold as stand-alone graphics without the expressed written 
consent of Damsel Software Group.  The screen saving functions cannot be 
redistributed under any conditions.


3.  MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

All of the images contained in this Damsel product are built on a 256-color
palette.  A video display board with a minimum of 512K RAM and 256-color 
capability for display on a VGA or SVGA monitor is essential for optimal 
viewing of these images.  The images are almost all 480 pixels wide and from 
250 to 360 pixels high.  They do not fill the normal 640 x 480 VGA screen 
format.

You will need an IBM-compatible PC with a 386 or higher-type microprocessor
(486 recommended), 4MB RAM, and a hard disk with 5MB free disk space.  

Damsel products run with MS-DOS 3.1 or higher using Windows 3.1 or higher.
Damsel products are fully compatible with Windows 95.


4.  SETTING UP YOUR SCREEN SAVER 

Exit this README file by clicking on the minus sign or the Close ("X") 
button of the Notepad window.  Then, turn off any other screen savers you 
may be using unless they are the ones linked directly to your Desktop
(Display) Accessories module, following the manufacturer's instructions.  

    *** ACCESS IN WINDOWS 3.X ***

To access your Damsel screen saver from Windows' Program Manager,

1.  Double click on your Main icon.
2.  Double click on the Control Panel icon. 
3.  Double click on the Desktop icon.  
4.  Once you are in the Desktop dialog box open the list 
    in the Screen Saver area by clicking the button at the right 
    of the box titled "Name:" (or by pressing TAB several times to go to 
    the box, followed by ALT+DOWN ARROW).  
5.  Scroll on the slide bar until you find the screen saver titled 
    "Dave's Dig'tl Art 1".  Click once on the title to select it.  You may 
    also select the "Delay" time (of inactivity) in minutes which will 
    precede the initiation of any screen saver selected.  Password 
    protection is also available and is described in the next section.
6.  After selecting Dave's Dig'tl Art 1 screen saver choose OK in the 
    upper right-hand corner of the dialog box and exit back to the opening 
    screen.  The screen saver will now appear after the initial chosen 
    period of inactivity passes.  

    *** ACCESS IN WINDOWS 95 ***

1.  Press or click your mouse on the Task Bar's Start button.
2.  Highlight or click on Settings, from the first menu.
3.  Click on Control Panel, from the second menu.
4.  When the Control Panel window opens, double click on the Display icon.
5.  Click on the tab titled Screen Saver.
6.  Scroll down the list of screen savers and click on the name "Dave's 
    Dig'tl Art 1".  At this point you can also set the screen saver's "Wait" 
    time or enter a password.  Password details are available in the next 
    section.


5.  SCREEN SAVER FUNCTION AND FEATURES

All of Damsel's screen savers have preset display times and transition
effects (the methods used to transition between one image and the next).  
Most of this screen saver's image files are stored in the JPEG format.  
The length of time required to decompress each image and perform transition 
effects will depend directly on the size and speed of your microprocessor 
(386, 486, or Pentium) and the power of your video graphics card.  

Damsel has set the display times to be approximately 20 seconds for each 
image using a 486-type machine running at 33 Megahertz.  Faster 486 and
Pentium machines will exhibit slightly shorter display times.  Users with 
386-type machines will notice longer display times and an initial blank 
screen lasting up to one minute as the microprocessor decompresses the first
image.  Additional blank screen time of up to one minute between images will
also appear on slower machines when decompressing the larger JPEG files.

Your screen saver has been installed in the "Mouse Aware" mode, meaning that
any movement of the mouse will disengage the screen saver.  Disengagement
may take several seconds if the program is interrupted during one of the  
image transitions.  This wait could last up to a full minute on 386-type
machines.  486-type machines are recommended.  The screen saver may be put 
into a "Mouse Ignore" mode where only a depressed key on the keyboard will 
deactivate the screen saver.  The program will recommence using the next 
image in its sequence when the selected delay time reactivates the screen 
saver.        

To access the Mouse Aware \ Mouse Ignore setup choices click on the Setup 
(Settings) button of the Screen Saver section of the Desktop (Win95's 
Display) dialog box (accessed by the Program Manager\Main\Control Panel\
Desktop command sequence in Windows 3.x, or by Windows 95's Start\Settings\
Control Panel\Display\Screen Saver command sequence).  Once there, the 
choices are found on the left side of the upper tool bar.  The Mouse icon 
on the upper horizontal tool bar is a toggle switch.  A box at the lower 
left of the screen will tell you which mode you have chosen.  Click on the 
exit icon or the Windows' "X" at the upper right-hand corner to leave this 
box.  Before leaving you may wish to set a password.

Damsel screen savers have incorporated the same Password protection scheme 
offered by the original Windows screen savers.  This feature is also found 
in the Setup (Settings) dialog box of the Screen Saver section of the 
Desktop (Display) dialog box.  A click on the Password button (Key icon)
brings up a screen with the "Enter New Password" entry line.  As you type in
your selected password, asterisks will appear for each letter.  Clicking on 
the OK button will bring up a confirmation screen where you will be asked to
reenter the same password.  Clicking the OK button here will return you to 
the original Setup (Settings) screen.  Note that if you have several Damsel
products, they will all use the same password.  A change to a password for 
one screen saver will affect them all.

Exiting will activate your password protection. With the screen saver 
activated, any motion of the mouse in the Mouse Aware mode or keyboard entry 
in the Mouse Ignore mode will bring up an Enter Password dialog box.  The 
password must be correctly entered in order to gain access back to the 
active Windows environment. If you forget your password your best option 
is to copy PGX.INI from your original Disk #1 directly to your WINDOWS 
directory and then enter a new password, if desired.

If you wish to change or remove the password you must return to the Setup
(Settings) screen of the Screen Saver section of the Desktop (Display) 
dialog box.  To enter a new password follow the same procedure as described 
above.  You will first be asked to enter your current password.  To remove 
the password simply click on the OK button of both the Enter New Password 
input screen and the Reenter New Password screen without filling in the 
input line.


6.  JPEG IMAGE COMPRESSION

In order to save space on your hard disk Damsel uses JPEG graphics file
compression techniques on most images used in this screen saver.  JPEG, a
standard developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group, is a complex 
compression method that gives the developer control over the degree to which
a file is reduced in size for storage.  This method does result in loss of 
image fidelity since individual pixel data is not maintained.  At high 
compression ratios , the mathematical algorithms average large groups of 
pixels resulting in a reduced number of colors and image blockiness when 
displayed.

Any developer using this method must make judgment calls concerning image
quality versus file size.  A full 640 X 480  256-color image in Microsoft 
BMP format (used in Windows wallpaper) is over 308K bytes in size.  By 
contrast, full-screen JPG (JPEG) image files used in a screen saver such 
as Microsoft's Scenes average around 33K bytes per image.

Damsel Software Group has elected to set the trade-off between disk space
and image quality a bit more in the direction of high image quality.  
Damsel's JPG format results in file sizes averaging over 70K bytes per image.  
Each image is manually optimized to meet image resolution requirements
without sacrificing valuable hard disk space.  Five of the images, 
BARDREAM.BMP, SPRNGPOL.BMP, BRAZLIQD.BMP, DRAPE01.BMP, and ALPGLASS.BMP have 
been supplied in the BMP format so that you may use them as Windows 
wallpaper (see Section 8 below).  


7.  MONITOR DISPLAY

The program configures the image display to your screen by first reading
your on-line graphics display format.  If your monitor is not configured
for 256 colors, the program will display 256-color images by constructing a
16-color standard VGA dithered image from the colors available in this 
format.  Usually, the result of this mathematical process is visually grainy,
looking much like a needlepoint design for the images in this screen saver
meant to use 256 colors.

If you find the images barely recognizable and you have a minimum of 512K 
RAM on your video display board, there is probably a driver you can load 
which will support 256-color display.  Consult your machine and Windows 
documentation for more information regarding your specific situation.

The JPEG format performs its original compression from the 24-bit color
(also known as 16.7 million colors or True color) graphics level.  The 256-
color display will show part of the compressed information, but a computer
which can show 24-bit color will show an even more realistic image.  In the
case of these computer graphics the major benefit is in areas of subtle
graduated shadings.  Soft or foggy color transitions will suddenly flow with
24-bit color instead of showing distinct stepped gradations in the 256-color
mode.


8.  WALLPAPER AND IMAGE LIST

To use Damsel's JPG images as wallpaper for Windows the picture file format 
for must be changed from JPG to Microsoft BMP format.  Your Windows program 
does not have this capability, it must be purchased from a third party 
vendor.  These programs can be purchased as stand-alones for under 
US$100.00.  

Five of the images, BARDREAM.BMP, SPRNGPOL.BMP, BRAZLIQD.BMP, DRAPE01.BMP,
and ALPGLASS.BMP have been supplied in the BMP format so that you may use 
them as Windows wallpaper by copying them to the Windows directory.  Do not 
delete their original presence in the DDA1JP directory or the screen saver 
will not function properly.

If you have the ability to reformat the JPG images into the BMP format, the 
following list can be used to match individual image titles to filenames.

Image Title On-screen		Filename	Image Dimensions
---------------------		------------	----------------
Primeval Dawn			Primdawn.jpg	480 x 360
Drop in the Bucket		Drops001.jpg	480 x 360
Whirlpool Bath One		Whrlpol1.jpg	480 x 360
Barred Dreams			Bardream.bmp	480 x 360
Damsel Wing			Damslwng.jpg	480 x 360
Copper Ripple			Coperrpl.jpg	480 x 360
Spring Pool			Sprngpol.bmp	480 x 360
Drop Transit			Droptran.jpg	480 x 320
Core Drive			Coredriv.jpg	480 x 320
Kiwi				Kiwi.jpg	480 x 320
Volcanic Hideaway		Hideaway.jpg	480 x 360
City by the River of Dreams	Citydrem.jpg	480 x 360
Sand Stones			Sandston.jpg	480 x 360
Closing Gate			Closgate.jpg	480 x 360
Pigment Radiation		Spray01.jpg	480 x 320
Brazen Liquid			Brazliqd.bmp	480 x 360
Facet Seven			Facet007.jpg	480 x 360
Coiled Bravado			Bravado.jpg	480 x 360
Wave of Passion			Passion1.jpg	480 x 360
Fire Roll			Fireroll.jpg	480 x 360
Ascot				Ascot2.jpg	480 x 360
Drape Lite One			Drape01.bmp	480 x 360
Stream Leader			Raweggs.jpg	480 x 360
Final Fold			Finlfold.jpg	480 x 360
Alpine Glass Avenue		Alpglass.bmp	480 x 360


9.  UNINSTALLING YOUR SCREEN SAVER

Your screen saver has been loaded to a directory named DDA1JP unless you
chose otherwise during the installation procedure.  In order to enable you
to access the screen saver Damsel has loaded two additional files into your
WINDOWS directory, DDA1xxxx.INI and DDA1xxxx.SCR, where 'x' is any number.  
If you have chosen a password, the program has also copied PGX.INI to the 
WINDOWS directory.

To remove the screen saver from your hard disk simply delete all files in
the DDA1JP directory (or your own directory name chosen during installation)
and the DDA1xxxx.INI and DDA1xxxx.SCR files located in your WINDOWS 
directory. This can be done quickly from your Windows 3.x File Manager, 
found in your Program Manager's Main menu, or from your Windows 95 
My Computer or Explorer applet.

Also, remove PGX.INI if present.  If PGX.INI contains an active password and
you do not remove the file, the next time you load any Damsel screen saver
you will find that the old password has immediately been attached to it.  If
you have forgotten that old password, you will have to manually copy the new
PGX.INI file into your WINDOWS directory in order to overwrite the old pass-
word.  You can find this screen saver PGX.INI file either in the DDA1JP 
directory or on your original installation Disk #1.


10.  WARRANTY INFORMATION

The publisher makes no warranty concerning the function or fitness of any 
programs or graphics files reproduced on diskettes included in this package.
Neither Damsel Software Group, or its authorized agents shall be held liable
for consequential, special, indirect, or other similar damages or claims, 
including loss of profits or any other commercial damages, and in no event 
will the liability for any damages to the purchaser or any other person ever
exceed the price paid for the license to use the software, regardless of
any form of the claim, even if Damsel Software Group has been advised of the
possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party.  Damsel
Software Group  specifically disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied,
including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and 
fitness for a particular purpose or application. 


Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.


DAMSEL SOFTWARE GROUP 

  ... hopes you enjoy DAVE'S DIGITAL ABSTRACT ART SCREEN SAVER, VOL 1

  ... and looks forward to supplying you with the best in
		
      screen savers, wallpaper, and future animated screen savers.

  ... AND REMEMBER, your thoughts and suggestions are always welcome.

			!!! HAPPY VIEWING !!!

