Wonder
                          Version 5.0

                         Copyright 1993
                        cAVEman Software

    Disclaimer - "Wonder" is a free program.  There are no warranties

expressed or implied. You use this program at your own risk. Any damage to your system (however unlikely that is) is not the responsability of the author. There. Now that that is over with I will proceed to tell you about this program. "Wonder" is a simple Turbo C program that displays a changing kaleidiscope of lines on your screen. I wrote this program from scratch to see if I could after I saw the program "KALEIDESCOPE" written by Joseph McClendon. This program, however, goes much farther than that one. Here is a rundown of your options:

    'B':            Toggles the background on and off.

    'C':            Clears the screen and starts over.

    'P':            Pauses the screen until a key is pressed.

    '0' to '9':     Changes the delay time between writing lines on the
                    display.  '0' is the fastest, and '9' is the slowest.

    '�' and '�'     Change the maximum space allowed between lines on the
    (right & left   screen.  When you exceed the boundaries in either
       arrow keys)  direction you will be notified with a "beep."  The
                    lower boundry is 1, and the upper boundry is 9.

    'F'             Toggles between the kaleidescope taking up the full
                    screen and just taking up the largest possible square
                    of area in the center of the screen.

    'D'             Will set the startup default parameters to those
                    currently on the screen.  This creates the file
                    "wonder.def" in the current working directory.  If
                    this file is not present in the same directory as the
                    program, the program will use the defaults of
                    delay = 0, background = OFF, space = 4, and full
                    screen mode = OFF.

    'H'             Displays the beginning help screen.

    'Esc'           Terminate program.

Included files within Wonder.zip are: Wonder.exe (the program) Wonder.txt (this file) Wonder.ico (a windows icon file) Wonder.c (the source file) Egavga.bgi (required graphics driver for Ega/Vga monitors. If you have a different monitor type you can still use this program. You will know this if you get an error message after the intro screen. To see if you have the required driver file already on your system go to the root prompt of all of your hard drives. (For the C: drive this will be the C:\ prompt.) Then type dir (filename.bgi) /s and press enter. (If you have a version of DOS befor 5.0 the /s switch will not work.) If the file is there copy it from its current directory to the one with the wonder.exe file in it. Restart the program and it should work. If you don't have the file on your system GO IBMFF on Compuserve and search for that file. You should be able to find it there.)

If you have any comments, good or bad, or even bug reports, send them to: Avery Regier or on compuserve at: [71214,1301]

                         Have a wonderful day!