The Skyrocket screensaver is written for Windows. It uses OpenGL for graphics and requires OpenGL hardware acceleration for optimum performance. If you don't have it, you'll see a very slow framerate. OpenAL is used for the sound effects. You'll need the OpenAL32.dll, so I have included it in skyrocket.zip just in case you don't already have it. OpenAL is free software as described by the LGPL, which is also included in skyrocket.zip. More information about OpenGL and OpenAL can be obtained at www.opengl.org and www.openal.org, respectively. Skyrocket is freeware, so there is no support available for this saver, but feel free to send comments and suggestions to me (Terry). Contact information is available on my website: http://www.reallyslick.com Installation instructions: 1. Extract the files from this .zip file using your favorite zip program (you should have already gotten that far or you wouldn't be reading this). 2. Place Skyrocket.scr in the directory that contains all your other .scr files. This directory varies between versions of Windows, but it's probably something like "Windows/System32/" 3. Similarly, you'll need to put OpenAL32.dll in the directory that contains all your other .dll files. If you can't find the correct directories, go to the "Start" menu, click on "Search," and perform a search for .scr or .dll files. 4. Open your "Display Properties" window by right-clicking on your desktop background. Click on the "Screen Saver" tab and select this saver. Controlling Skyrocket: You can have some control over Skyrocket with the following keyboard commands. a - Pause the action (particle physics stops updating) s - Slow motion (slows down the particle physics) c - Pause the camera (camera stops moving) n - New camera view m - Toggle mouse camera control types of explosions to launch: 1 - Sphere 2 - Split sphere 3 - Three-colored sphere 4 - Ring 5 - Double sphere 6 - Sphere and ring 7 - Streamers 8 - Meteors 9 - Streamers and little sphere 0 - Meteors and little sphere q - Streamers inside sphere w - Meteors inside sphere e - Cluster of sphere explosions r - Cluster of streamer explosions t - Cluster of meteor explosions y - Little firecrackers u - Bees i - Loud boom o - Spinner