TABASCO^® Mardi Gras Animated Screen Saver Frequently Asked Questions

1. I'm having trouble getting the animated screen saver to download and install.
   Complete instructions can be found on this page. (Note: the Windows versions are self-extracting archives, so you will not need WinZip.)
   
   
2. Does the animated screen saver have sound?
   There are two versions. One with sound and one without. The version with sound has a police siren, dance squad and marching band audio. Be patient to hear all three clips because it is a long parade! The marching band is actually a clip from The St. Augustin Marching 100 led by Edwin Hampton.
   
   
3. My desktop shows behind the floats; is this a bug?
   No, that's how it's supposed to work. (It's not really your desktop, but a screenshot of your desktop at the time the animated screen saver starts; any background tasks that your computer executes will not be visible until the animated screen saver quits.)
   
   
4. Well, then is it really a screen saver?
   Technically, no; but modern monitors do not suffer from "screen burn." While screen savers were originally designed to prevent images from being permanently burned into your monitor, they are now just supposed to be fun.
   
   
5. I installed the animted screen saver, but it won't launch; or when it does, the screen is black or the desktop doesn't appear. Or, I get an "out of memory" error. What's up?
   In all likelihood you have a large monitor set to maximum (usually "millions", or 24-bit) color depth. Try setting your monitor to display 16-bit (or "thousands") colors. On the Macintosh, do this in your Monitors and Sound control panel. Under Windows, do this in the Display control panel.
   
   Another possibility is that you don't have enough free RAM. Try quitting a few applications and see if it works then. If you have less than 6MB free at the time the animated screen saver launches, there is a good chance you need more memory.
   
   
6. I've read all these instructions and yet I still have an unresolved problem. Can someone help?
   Send a detailed e-mail describing your problem to screensavers@bentmedia.com. Please include the following information:

   Operating System (e.g., MacOS 8.1, Windows 95)
   Computer type/ speed (e.g., iMac 266, Pentium II/200)
   Monitor(s) size/ depth: (e.g, 1024x460, thousands of colors)
   Main hard drive size and free space (e.g., 4GB with 300 MB free)
   Total memory and approximate free RAM (e.g. 24 MB with 8MB free)
   Version of the animated screen saver

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