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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
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Subject: Re: Hardware Screen Savers (Re: T
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Date: 2 Oct 90 04:12:42 GMT
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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
[...]
>What is exceptional about this software is that it operates even
>after the user has selected shutdown in the finder.  For those of
[...]
>a screen saver besides this one that has this very nice feature.
>Does anyone know why/how macsbug is able to do this, while none of
>the other inits seem to be capable of it? 

You must be out of date 8^)

The later rev's of Moire, Pyro and After Dark all have this
capability.

Ithink Moire is shareware, Pyro and After Dark are commercial.

There is a significant difference in the way that Pyro 4.0
and After Dark 2.0 handle this feature. I own both, and
Pyro loads it's next module from disk, while After Dark uses
the default, builtin module "Starry Night". 

The result of this difference is that Pyro can enter the
screenblanker only once. If you move the mouse, the screen
blanking stops, and the "You may now ... " dialog remains on the
screen forever more.

After Dark, on the other hand, enter screenblanker, can be brought out
by moving the mouse, and will return to screenblanking at its
timeout, or if you move the mouse to the "sleep now" corner of the
screen.

They both are great, many people (Mac II owners for one) could care
less about this difference.

jim

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