
USER INSTRUCTIONS:
EARLY BICYCLES - WINDOWS SCREEN SAVER

If you chose the screen option when installing EARLY BICYCLES,
your screen saver program has been installed into the 
Windows Desktop of the Control Panel. BE CERTAIN YOUR 
MONITOR IS SET TO 256 COLOR PALETTE. If you have an old 
generic VGA monitor which can only display 16 colors, I'm afraid 
these images will look terrible. Sorry. 

1) Accessing your screen saver is easy and requires only three 
steps:
  a)  Double Click on the Control Panel
  b)  Open the Desktop Item
  c)  Select your screen saver from the list of screen savers.
      EARLY BICYCLES appears in the list of screen savers as
      MINICAT NOT EARLY BICYCLES. (I'll that explain shortly.)
      If you click on Setup, you will be presented with a dialog 
      with which you can customize EARLY BICYCLES as a screen 
      saver.
       
2) Customizing the EARLY BICYCLES Screen Saver with Setup.
   a) The 'Effect' list gives you a choice of two special effects
        that can be applied to the display.
   b) Delay allows you change the number of seconds each image  
        is displayed. Or you can enable 'Random' and thereby give   
        control over this variable to the computer.
   c) 'Effect Size' changes the 'grain' of the dissolves between        
       images. The smaller the 'Effect Size', the longer to it takes 
       images to appear on screen.
   d) Enable 'Show Titles' will cause the title given to each
       image to appear at the bottom of the screen when it is 
       displayed.
   e) You can also 'Password Protect', the EARLY BICYCLES
       screen saver if you wish.
   
3) Why the strange terminology? What do MINICAT and CATALOG
     mean? EARLY BICYCLES is a publication in a long series of      
     visionary art and historic transportation photo album/screen 
     savers to be released by Reality Software. The entire  
     collection is called a Mini-Catalog (MINICAT) and each product 
     within MINICAT is a CATALOG. If you buy other publications in 
     this series AND choose to install each as a Windows screen 
     saver, then the title of each will appear in the drop down      
     CATALOG list at the top of the Setup dialog which is accessed 
     from the Desktop item of the Control Panel when you choose 
     MINICAT as your screen saver. See the manual in the EARLY
     BICYCLES album for further explanation of these terms and their 
     structural use.           
         
  
WINDOW'S BASICS

I.   Loading the Control Panel:

     a) The Control Panel is generally found in the MAIN group of      
          your Program Manager. Execute the Control Panel by double 
          clicking the Control Panel icon.

     b) If you cannot find the MAIN group or the Control Panel icon, 
          you can run the control panel from the File Manager by 
          double  clicking CONTROL.EXE in your main Windows 
          directory (usually called WINDOWS).

II.  Run the Windows Desktop:

    To run the Desktop of the Control Panel, double click the     
    Desktop icon in the Control Panel.


