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Magic Mirror

Initial Release Date
June 1, 1993
Color Palette
4/18b and 8/18b
Max Resolution
1024x768
License Status
Shareware © Daniel Baumberger and Ken Maupin
Platform(s)
MS-DOS
Author(s)
Daniel Baumberger and Ken Maupin

Description

Magic Mirror renders sets of bouncing lines in SVGA resolutions up to 1024x768. It was one of a package of screen savers known as the Over the Edge collection.

Magic Mirror (Magic) is a variation of the classic bouncing lines program. It as based on a program by Ken Maupin called Manic.

Magic Mirror, like many other line bouncers, takes a fairly simplified approach to drawing each set of lines, only drawing 2 lines per update: a black line to erase the line drawn X steps back (75 by default); and a line of the next color. Since the full set of lines isn't updated each time it performs quickly, but the simple erasure method used overwrites parts of lines not intended for deletion causing subtle black artifacts.

Unlike the other bouncing lines program in the Over the Edge collection, Northern Lights, Magic Mirror was targeted at older VGA displays, defaulting to a 640x480 4b 16 color mode and still supporting EGA modes.

Options

Magic Mirror supports a variety of options. Some of the less obvious are described below. Refer to the Command Line Reference and Readme in the Documentation section for further details.

Mirror

The Mirror setting controls the how lines are reflected.

Color

Magic Mirror provides 2 color modes.

Manic

Manic mode will restrict lines to either halves or quarters of the screen depending on the mirroring mode selected.

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