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= Caleido DesktopPad                                   =
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- Copyright  2000 Caleido                             -
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1. Description
2. How to play
3. StyleSheets
4. Powerups
5. Sponsor
6. Advertisement
7. Known bugs
8. Contact


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1. Description

Caleido DesktopPad is a little funny game you play
on your Windows-Desktop.
You have to destroy all icons. The little display
on the rigth-bottom shows you how many pixels you still
have to destroy.

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2. How to play

You can move the paddle with your mouse so that the ball
always hits the paddle when it is coming down. Otherwise
you loose one of your two balls.

If the ball hits an icon on your desktop, it kills some
pixels of that icon.

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3. StyleSheets

By pressing the right mousebutton, the game stops (pause).
Then you can click on the little 'i' on the right
of the display (the right-bottom of your screen).
There you can press the button 'Choose StyleSheet' and
you can choose one of the five stylesheets.

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4. Powerups

There are several good and bad powerups. Powerups are the
little icons that fall down (sometimes) if the ball hits
an icon.

If you get a question mark, an 'A' or an 'I', you can see in
the display how long it stays (time in seconds counting
to zero).

Good:

The question mark and the 'A' are good. The question mark
changes your ball. You can activate the fireball by pressing
your left mousebutton. The fireball doesn't collide with
the icons but goes thru, so that it destroys much more pixels.
The 'A' stands for 'automatic paddle'. The paddle is steered
by the computer for 15 seconds.

Bad:

The 'I' stands for 'inverse' and is a bad powerup. It makes
right mouse movements move the paddle to the left, and left
mouse movements move the paddle to the right. So it
inverses the steering.

The computer, the recycle-bin, the file-new and the folder
tilt your paddle, which means that you are unable to move
the paddle for some seconds.

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5. Sponsor

This game is sponsored, so that you don't have to pay
anything to play. Please visit the website of our sponsor.

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6. Advertisement

If you want to advertise with this game, please
contact us. We can put your ad (banner) on the paddle, 
the aboutbox and the endscreen. Clicking on your banner
directly links to your website.

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7. Known bugs

We have tested our game on several PCs with different 
configurations. There are two known problems: 

	1. HTML-Wallpaper / ActiveDesktop
           
           If you have a HTML-Wallpaper (like the MS Windows98
           standard wallpaper) or if you have any elements shown of
           the ActiveDesktop (Channels, HTML, etc.), the game doesn't 
           work correctly.
           Please change your settings to a 'normal' wallpaper
           showing a picture (*.bmp, *.jpg, etc.) or just 
           don't activate the ActiveDesktop. Then the game
           works correctly.

        2. Not all windows minimize when starting the game

           Normally all windows should minimize automatically when
           starting the game. Sometimes it happens, that no all
           open windows can't be minimized. Then the system is
           currently to slow, because it can't minimize all windows
           within the starting time. If so, please close some
           applications, try it later or restart your system and
           try it again.

If you find a bug, please report it to info@caleido.ch. Thank you.

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8. Contact

If you desire to contact us for any reason, please contact 
Caleido by mail at: Caleido, Ob dem Hgliacker 58, CH-4102 
Binningen/Switzerland, by telephone at: 0041 61 308 96 05, 
or by electronic mail at: info@caleido.ch.

Web: www.caleido.ch / www.caleido.de