Explanations
With jk-ware Theater Blocker Plains, Color LIFE
Sound and Perpetuum mobile can be started multiple times and run
simultaneously.
Each game can occupy the size of the framework-window partially or completely
or can share the place with the other games.
The game-windows become with the menu-point „Windows“ arranged overlapped,
side by side or one on the other.
Think and purpose of Theater is to test the capability of the computer
playfully. The on this occasion selected window-order can be stored to the
later recall as configuration.
The Products jk-ware Color LIFE Sound Theater and jk-ware Perpetuum
mobile Theater allow only the simultaneous course of Color LIFE Sound as well
as Perpetuum mobile.
The course in the individual
jk-ware Theater is a framework-program where the
game-programs of jk-ware can become started as MDI-Window (MDI = Multiple
Document Interface).
Each program becomes under Windows™, as individual task (Thread) declared and
gets the microprocessor allotted alternate for a small term.
Hereby, a seemingly simultaneous course of the games emerges on computers with
one processor.
Only on systems with several microprocessors each program is allotted ideally
one processor, through which the games run out simultaneously.
On processors with the new HT-Technology (HT = Hyper-Threading), also several
Threads are worked off within a CPU-kernel simultaneously.
The Multi-Threading necessary for this course becomes however only realized on
Windows™ with New Technology NT/2000/XP.
Restrictions
Windows makes available only a restricted capacity
on system-, user- and graphic-resources. If these are depleted, no further
game can be started.
Blocker Plains and Perpetuum mobile without direct graphic requires many
resources of Windows so that only some instances of the programs can run out
simultaneously.
Color LIFE Sound requires few resources, for it however with big generations
some memory of the computer.
We recommend to open only one instance of Blocker Plains and to let run out
Perpetuum mobile with direct graphic, in order to avoid problems with Windows.
On new PC-Systems with Windows XP as operating-system, these problems only
appear with many started programs. This is taken into account also with the
Theater-configurations prepared by jk-ware.
With ongoing course-problems, the cause can also be the drivers for the sound-
and graphic-card, if these are not suitable for multithreading.
Working with the
configuration-files
The configuration-files contain the
registration-data under „HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\jk_ware\Theater\3.2\Konfig“.
Through „Program\Selection\Save... “ are written these data into a *.cfg-File.
At Reloading with „Program\Selection\Load...“ are read the data under the
above registration-key.
Caution! When reading a new configuration-file, the current
game-construction gets lost irretrievably.
If game-data get like the champions-list of Blocker Plains or the current
arithmetic-rules to the quest of beautiful Color LIFE-Pattern should remain,
these must be stored into a configuration-file before they are headed by a
new.
A change of the registration-data should even be planned only from Theater !
