The first release of MBBack has now escaped from development hell, and
may be found at:
http://www.starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/utilities.htm#mbback
MBBack is yet another random backdrop chooser program to pick from the
myriad selection on the Internet. What makes this one unique? Well,
the headline features are:
- A user-editable script file containing a list of backdrops,
automatically filtered for any errors or invalid filetypes.
- A 'compiled' version of this list, from which lines are removed after
selection by the backdrop-choosing part. This means the same backdrop
is never chosen twice until all backdrops have been exhausted.
- Full ImageFileConvert support, copying each file to a sprite, hence
allowing for a dramatic speedup in old versions of the Pinboard.
- Can select any sprite for display from within a sprite file, not just
the first one.
- Built-in sprite scaling functions, capable of reducing (or enlarging)
images to fit on the screen without the distortion associated with the
Pinboard's 'Scaled' option.
- Facility to recalculate the current backdrop, for example if the
screen mode has changed.
Sorry, you'll have to supply your own backdrops.
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