Hot Ice, A stunning kaleidoscopic screen saver.

System requirements, Windows 95, 98 or Me and a Pentium class processor with DirectX installed.

To install, execute hotice.exe, this will begin the self extracting installation.  The default install location is C:\Program Files, but the user may choose an alternate location. At the end of the installation, double click on the Hot Ice icon in the new window on your desktop to set Hot Ice as your default screen saver.  This will also place a Hot Ice icon in your system tray from which you can access the Hot Ice functions. If you would like to uninstall Hot Ice, click on the uninstall button at the bottom of the registration dialog.

Hot Ice is supported on the following platforms, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. On Windows 95 it is recommended that all power management functions be disabled to avoid confilcts between directX and power management.

Hot Ice is Shareware with a free evaluation period of 5 days.  Hot Ice costs $9.95 to register.

This program may be distributed freely as Shareware.


Each of Hot Ice's 14 images is a complex work of geometric art that animates at 60 frames per second. When combined randomly with the 14 available color schemes, the result is nearly 200 unique images. As they move through their vibrant changes you are treated to a spellbinding visual display.  

Hot Ice is fully configurable, choose your favorite images, color schemes, transitions, on-screen durations, and delay times using Hot Ice's easy-to-use configuration dialog. The configuration dialog is availble from "Display Properties|Screen Saver|Settings" in Windows or via the "right click menu" from tray icon.   Refer to the help which is accessible from the "?" buttons in the dialogs or via the "right click menu" from the tray icon.  

Hot Ice can also play your favorite MP3 music files whenever it starts up, choose "Select Music" in the configuration dialog.

For questions or problems with this software, contact the author, CodeName: MANA at 

info@codenamemana.com

CodeName: MANA LLC
603 N. Kimball
Excelsior Springs, MO 64024