Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!saab.stanford.edu!portia.stanford.edu!draphsor From: draphsor@portia.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Hardware Screen Savers (Re: T Message-ID: <1990Sep29.030216.16469@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 29 Sep 90 03:02:16 GMT References: <7331.26FE9E16@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> <1990Sep27.040610.3720@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 35 In article <1990Sep27.040610.3720@rodan.acs.syr.edu> fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Phred Dushin) writes: >This raises an interesting question. There is a tiny (1k) "init" >called macsbug (not to be confused with the assembly debugger, though >they must be related somehow), The reason it's named 'macsbug' is so that it will load in first at startup time. The Macintosh software looks first thing for something called 'MacsBug', which it then loads in at startup. Basically, the author of this init decided to do it this way instead of putting a low-ascii character before the name. >which does a nice job blanking the screen. >What is exceptional about this software is that it operates even >after the user has selected shutdown in the finder. For those of >us in the dark ages (with our macs:macdoes not shut the machine off. It merely parks heads, gives you that >nice, "okay, turn me off" dialogue, or whatever. I have not seen >a screen saver besides this one that has this very nice feature. Moire version 3.whatever has a checkbox option in its cdev interface which allows you to have it run at shutdown. It displays its normal pattern and periodically flashes the word 'shutdown' at random positions on the screen. >Does anyone know why/how macsbug is able to do this, while none of >the other inits seem to be capable of it? That, I couldn't tell you. >Fred Dushin Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY >Internet: Bitnet: >fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu fadushin@sunrise.bitnet -- Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf draphsor@portia.stanford.edu