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POWERMANAGER SCREEN SAVER DESIGN CONTEST

WCi Lazarus Engineering Division is pleased to announce it's first
PowerManager screen saver contest.


WHAT IS POWERMANAGER

During the Calgary AmiJam Amiga show in July 1995, Lazarus Engineering
revealed a special edition of it's PowerManger software complete with a
flaming AmiJam logo screen saver.  The software never went into full
production and is a rare commodity currently owned by only a few select
people.  The PowerManager software contains the following:

* A DPMS monitor controlling module.  DPMS stands for Display Power
Management System and is a standard defined by the EPA (Environmental
Protection Agency) in the U.S.  DPMS allows a computer to control the
amount of power a monitor is using through video signals.  Most monitors
displaying the "Energy Star" logo have DPMS ability (there are over 500
models currently available with this ability)

* A screen saver controlling module.  Included with PowerManger in
Calgary were five screen savers and their source code.  Two of them
displayed a logo and then burst it into flame, one was a multi-coloured
star field (with accurate star colors), something called curvo which
has to be seen, and a simple black-screen module for shutting down
older monitors which looked for this before they would go into power-
saving mode.

* A disk cacheing module.  Lazarus Engineering purchased the cacheing
engine found in Steve Tibbett's CacheX software, enhanced it to work
with all amiga disk devices including removable media like CD-ROM drives,
iomega ZIP drives, floppies, etc., added support for multiple devices,
and a stats window that lets you know how useful it's been.

* A hard drive power management module.  During a period of inactivity
you can let PowerManager spin down your hard drive(s).  The internal
IDE hard drive controllers found in A4000s, A1200s, and A600s are
supported as well as any SCSI HD controller which supports the SCSI
spin-down command (most new controllers do).


CONTEST DETAILS

Lazarus Engineering is looking for interesting, entertaining, and
functional screen saver modules for it's upcoming (Q1 1996) release of
PowerManager 2.0.  A total of 30 entries will be chosen and included
(without source).  Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

- Compatibility (systems and display adapters)
- Originality
- Entertainment value (coolness factor)

The following rules apply to entries received:

- Code must be original and free from any copyrights
- Source code must be provided with entry
- Code must conform to the spec outlined at the bottom of this doc.
- Employees of WCi and it's divisions (Wonder Computers,  WCi Distribution,
Lazarus Engineering, Information Technology) are not eligible


PRIZES

Top 30 Entries
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Every blanker selected for inclusion in PowerManager will receive an Amiga
Technologies "Back for the Future" black polo shirt as well as a copy of
PowerManager 2.0.

Top 10 Entries
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The top 10 entries will receive a Wizard 560 dpi 3-button mouse (your choice
of beige or black), as well as the AT polo shirt and PowerManager 2.0.

Winning Entry
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The single winning entry will receive either a Cybervision 64 2Meg graphics
card by Phase-5 or a Picasso II 2Meg graphics card from Village Tronic (your
choice), as well as a 16-bit Toccata sound card from MacroSystems.  A
Wizard 560 dpi 3-button mouse, an AT polo shirt, and a copy of PowerManager
2.0 are also included in this package.

Only modules selected for inclusion with PowerManager become the property of
WCi and Lazarus Engineering.  Entries must be uuencoded files containing
executable and source sent to:

lazarus@wonder.ca

This address can also be used for general inquiries.  Sample blanker code
and instructions are available on the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.wonder.ca/pub/powermanger/devkit.lha

How to get in touch with us:
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If you have any questions about writing a blanker for PowerManager or the
supplied examples, please contact:

davide@wonder.ca

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Jason Compton                                          jcompton@wonder.ca
Promotional Director, Wonder Computers Inc.            708-741-0689 FAX
The time to rise...                                    ...has been engaged.

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