-= small Goblin =-

     v.1.1.5

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Program Type: Screen Mate for Windows 95/98/NT
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Short Description:
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This is a funny stuff to surprise Your friends. Unlike the typical 
screenmates, smallGoblin has some advanced features:

- Drawing engine is slightly different from commonly used - so
  there are nearly no bugs with redrawing
- Goblin has some different roles, on which his mood depends. And his 
  mood can also depends on some mysterious influence (Numerological 
  influence of the day). So - he will not make You bored of his 
  standard behavior
- Goblin is an active creature. He can do some funny things with 
  windows on desktop and mouse cursor :)


Quick Start:
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- Run Goblin (1 or many)
- Go to Options screen 
  (default on first start, 
   or when started with /O param,
   or hold Ctrl key & Click on Goblin) 
- Select "Terrorist" role
- Uncheck "Numerology influence" (it is not useful for quick view)
- Run some visible, NOT-MAXIMIZED windows
- See what happenes in few minutes... :)

Features: 
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- Rambling around, doing smth.
- Moving windows (if they are visible & not maximized)
- Tricks with mouse cursor
- When many Goblins - they like to push one another
- Predefined roles  (5 roles, on which probabilities of goblin's 
  features depends)
- "Hide until" option (date, on which goblin must activate) -
  great - when You want to leave a surprise on Your friend's comp...
- "Task Manager->End Task" Windows95/98 protector (User can't 
  remove Goblin with usual Task Manager. Though, Goblin can be removed 
  with Far Manager, or Windows NT Task Manager)
- Mood can be dependent from Numerology Influence of the current date
  (probabilities of Goblin's features are dependent on numerological
   number of the day (1..9)) - this feature is useful only if Goblin
   lives permanently on PC 
- Disappear/Appear to/from hyperspace 
- Autoinstallation to StartUp dir (if turned ON)
- Options screen (activating with Ctrl+Click or with /O cmd option)
- Command line params (run with /? cmd param to see them all).
- Logfile: %WINDIR%\GOBLOG.TXT

Hardware required:
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Because of advanced drawing algorithm, Goblin needs quick machines 
to run well. 

- Minimum: Pentium 100MHz, RAM 16Mb, 256 color monitor
- Normal: Pentium 166MHz, RAM 32Mb, 256 color monitor  

Roles description:
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Hide:      Sample role - Goblin don't show himself at all
           DO NOT USE IT - is is for debug only
Ghost:     Goblin shows himself very rarely. Great, if U want to 
           surprise somebody. Or U don't want to see Goblin 
           all the time.
Small:     That's normal mode. Goblin just running around. Doing 
           jokes rarely :)
Joker:     Probabilities of jokes ar much higher.
Terrorist: Run this mode to see all Goblin's possibilities. :) It's not 
           easy to work on computer while he is in such mode... :) 

Command Line Params:
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GOBLIN [/switch1 /switch2 ...]

/S[mall]       - Small role
/G[host]       - Ghost role 
/J[oker]       - Joker role 
/T[errorist]   - Terrorist role
/I[nstall]     - Copy istelf to StartUp directory & restart from this dir
/O[ptions]     - Run from options screen (where U can modify all options)
/U[nisitall]   - Remove all running goblins, and delete StartUp 
                 executable
/H[elp],/?     - help screen

Examples:

GOBLIN  /I /J       - insall to startup dir on current computer with 
                      Joker role
GOBLIN  /O          - run goblin from Options screen
GIBLIN  /U          - Uninstall from current computer

Copyrights, Warranties, Licensing, etc:
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- This software is Freeware as long as no money involved
- This software is spread "As Is" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
- Anyway - smallGoblin is NOT DESTRUCTIVE in any way &
  has NO INTEND TO HARM YOUR SYSTEM. Some features (EndTask
  protector, etc were made just for Win32 investigations, and 
  can be turned off  :)  )

Thanks To:
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- Author of Scam Poo (Sheep) - the most famous, and simply the best 
  Screen Mate in the World 
- "Coctail Vision" for wonderful quests. I wonder what happenes 
  with this firm now? 
- Alik, for some Win32 advices
- Lidiya Ruddat - for Numerology algorithms
- Inprise (former Borland) for C++Builder 3.0
- Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar for UPX v1.00 - nice & free 
  executable packer
- Bill Gates & Microsoft - for Windows :)
- Carlos Castaneda - for the idea to make this project :)))
- And many other people who helped us with ideas & advices

Contacts:  
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Any feedbacks, nice letters, bug reports, judgements, 
et cetera can be send to: 
 
       smallgoblin@yahoo.com

Official Homepage:

http://www.geocities.com/smallgoblin

Regards,

Kane+,
Kate


"And may the Goblin be with U" (c) Yoda