From: bo@enterprise.umd.edu (Geoffrey S. Elbo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Star Trek...The screen saver
Keywords: AFTER DARK,WINDOWS,SCREENSAVER,STARTREK
Date: 22 Nov 92 11:07:29 GMT
Organization: Physics Business Network, University of Maryland

In article <BxzFvz.70p@magna.com> doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico) writes:
>In article <18NOV199214400804@trentu.ca> spowell@trentu.ca (STEFAN POWELL) 
writes:
>>In article <1992Nov17.180959.16639@dorsai.com>, carlos@dorsai.com 
  (Carlos Domenguez) writes...
>>>Any comments about ST-TSS?
>>What is "Star Trek...The screen saver" ?
>
>_Star Trek: The Screen Saver_ is a version of Berkeley's After Dark which
>contains Star Trek TOS (The Original Series for you non-trekkers) oriented
>displays or savers...  It is fully compatible with After Dark 2.0, and
>you can even mix the savers in Multi-Modules...
>
>I'm a Beta Tester, and the "Final Candidate" I received this past weekend
>is working just fine...  I expect that you should see it shipping very
>shortly from Berkeley to you or your distributer...
They arrived in the Egghead stores Friday.

>
>If you're a Star trek (TOS, natch) fan, you'll LOVE it !!!

More specifics on  

Star Trek: The Screen Savers for Windows

Box Requiremtents: Windows 3.0 or higher
		   minimum 2MB RAM
		   VGA or better

From the people who gave you AFTER DARK, a set of screen savers
based on Star Trek:The Original Series.  This product runs without
AFTER DARK, but it can run all AD modules.

There are 15 different modules, plus a Randomizer, a Multimodule 
(which allows you to put more than one saver on the screen at
once), a Sounder module (plays WAV files) anda default night 
city skyline.

Sound is achieved through the internal Speaker, Windows Sound in 3.1
or Soundblaster in 3.0. 

Recommendations:
	All the sounds will play through the internal speaker, but they
 		are significantly better with a sound board.

	Run SMARTDRV with at least 256K minimum.  I added the line
		device=smartdrv.sys 2048 256
	   to my config.sys and the disk access light only lights when
 	   loading.  Before it was on all the time while a saver was
	   running.

	I found that running in 800x600 was the best video mode, for all
		except the Spock module.  Here you want to run it in 
		640x480 mode at least once to watch his expressions.




The Modules:
Brain Cells		From "Operation:Annihilate" the creatures 
			stick to screen.

Communications		A way to leave messages for others on the
			screen.  It dissolves and reappears at
			regular intervals in a variety of ways.

Final Exam		A trivia game.

Final Frontier		Sort of like the opening credits.

Horta			The Horta drill while RedShirts explore.

Ion Storm		A stream of colorful lines.

Planetary Atlas		A picture and description of various planets
 			from the series.

Scotty's Files		A series of techinical diagrams of various
			pieces of equipment and ships.

Ship Panels		Different control panels (M5, food dispenser,
			engineering, Spock's station)

Sickbay			The diagnostic panel of the beds in sickbay.
			Has comments from McCoy.

Space			A spot in universe where many ships come 
			together.

Spock			Spock appears in various places on the screen
			and does a variety of things.

The Mission		Kirk in his chair talking to various crew
			members.  Also see Scotty in the Jeffries tubes 
			and the main viewer.

Tholian Web		The Tholians attempt to complete their web.

Tribbles		Tribbles multiply while the Klingons look on.

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