The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver 2000
Copyright (C) 1997-2000
All Rights Reserved
http://www.synthesoft.com


This file contains the following information:

OVERVIEW ..............: What is The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver?
OPENGL.................: What is OPENGL and why do I need it?
CD/SPECTRUM PRO........: What is it and why do you mention it?
RELEASE NOTES..........: What should I know about Kine2000?	
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...: What do I need in order to run it?
INSTALLATION ..........: How do I install it? / How do I get rid of it?
PURCHASING ............: How do I purchase it?
QUESTIONS/SUPPORT .....: Where can I get help with problems?
UPDATES................: When is the next version due?
CREDITS................: Thanks!


                               OVERVIEW

  The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver will animate an endless variety of awesome 3D 
patterns and images. As the 3D patterns animate on your screen, the objects, 
images, lighting, and colors will move through, around, and on top of each 
other. Kinemorphics has been designed to give you an unprecedented amount of 
control over the effects used. You can use your own graphical images as 
object textures and backgrounds while Kinemorphics generates super-realistic 
lighting effects on top of super-realistic "living" 3D objects. 

  The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver has been designed to work in conjunction 
with CD/Spectrum Pro in order to provide stunning 3D visual effects that 
synchronize with the sounds from an audio device (like the CD player in your 
computer). With many of the module controls you can associate a sound 
frequency, a range of effect, and a sensitivity. Fluctuations in the 
amplitude of the frequency will oscillate the control values within the range 
of effect. 

  Kinemorphics will work with both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT (V4.0 and up). 
OpenGL 1.1 (or higher) is also required.  OpenGL 1.1 for Windows NT 4.0 is
included with the Operating System and does not need to be installed separately.
See the next section for more information on OpenGL.


                                 OPENGL

  OpenGL is a 3D graphics library.  The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver uses this
library of graphics functions to perform its 3D animations.  If OpenGL v1.1
(or higher) is not installed on your computer, then Kinemorphics will not
run.

  Windows NT v4.0 (and higher) comes with OpenGL v1.1 as part of the operating
system, so you're all set.  Windows 95 (OSR2) also comes with OpenGL v1.1.
Earlier versions of Windows 95 may not have OpenGL v1.1 installed.

  If you are unsure whether you have OpenGL 1.1 on your machine (or if you 
know that you don't), you should install Kinemorphics by installing one of the 
folowing which include OpenGL 1.1...

  Either run,

http://www.halcyon.com/render/download/kinegl31.exe

  OR, download and extract,

http://www.halcyon.com/render/download/kinegl31.zip


                            CD/SPECTRUM PRO

  CD/Spectrum Pro is a 32 bit shareware CD-Audio Player with a Graphical 
Spectrum Analyzer for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.  It can be used in 
conjunction with The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver in order to allow the 
patterns generated by the screen saver to be synchronized with sound.  

  CD/Spectrum Pro has almost every feature you can find on any software CD 
player.  It supports programmed mode, intro mode, optional taskbar icon 
operation, auto-play, auto-exit, auto-eject, artist/track/title database, 
etc. It also recognizes CDP files which can save you from typing in all the 
track/title information for your CDs. The spectrum analyzer graphically 
depicts the frequency spectra of the CD music in real time. 


 
                      KINE 2000 RELEASE NOTES	

* Registering Kinemorphics 2000 gives you a license to use versions 
  up to but not including v2001.

* You must have a sound card installed (and properly configured) in 
  your system in order for Kinemorphics to sync with sound.

* CD Spectrum Pro 2000 or later must be running in order for Kinemorphics 
  to sync with sound.


                           SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Suggested:
* The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver runs quite nicely on a P-90 system. 
  Machines with higher speeds or with 3D accelerator cards will of course 
  perform even faster.  Some displays are geared for high-end P3 machines.

* Microsoft Windows 98/NT 4.0/2000 or Windows 95 with OpenGL 1.1.

* Quality/Speed tradeoffs - Note that as you increase your display’s color 
  depth and x-y resolution, the image quality will improve at some expense 
  to performance.  Conversely, as you decrease color depth or resolution, 
  the image quality will decrease as the animation speed increases.


                         INSTALLATION / REMOVAL

To install the Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver, run the setup program (INSTALL.EXE) 
and then follow the directions.  If you later decide that you would like to
remove the software from your system, run the un-install program 
(UNINSTALL.EXE) that's in the directory you installed to. 


                              PURCHASING

For complete details on how to purchase a license for the Kinemorphic 3D
Screen Saver, just press the "REGISTER" button in the Kinemorphic 3D
Screen Saver configuration dialog and follow the instructions in the 
registration wizard.  

Please refer to the Licence Agreement section of the online documentation 
for complete information on the license agreement. 



                            QUESTIONS/SUPPORT

For complete information on how to obtain technical support for all Synthesoft
products, please refer to the following Technical Support page on the 
Synthesoft web site:

        http://www.synthesoft.com/techsupport.htm 

On this page you will find a "Frequently Asked Questions" list, a diagnostics
program, and additional information that may help our support staff to assist
you with your questions.




                                 UPDATES

We post updates to the software on our web site fairly often.  When we're feeling
particularly creative we may post updates as many as 2 or 3 times a month.  You 
can visit our web site at: http://www.synthesoft.com

                                 CREDITS

Synthesoft would like to thank Tom Seiler of The Graphics Depot for providing 
us with some of the most spectacular settings (*.KIN) files we've seen.



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