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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 8-bit screen blanker
Summary: I can be done.
Message-ID: <2062@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 90 22:21:45 GMT
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Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <90281.104905ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>, ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) writes:
> 
> I guess the program should keep running "in the background"
> while the screen is blank, till it stops when it wants a keypress.
> The keypresses needed to restore the screen will not be passed
> to the program (as it is with other screen blankers i've seen).
> 
 
I can't give you any help but perhaps a little encouragement. Ultramacros
(or is it the basic Timeout series ) gives this option on a //c. I've used
it on mine. If a key hasn't been pressed for x amount of time the screen 
goes blank until a key is pressed. The documentation doesn't call for a 
clock card so I assume that it will work without one.
I thought you'd like to know that it *can* be done on an 8 bit //,
I just don't know how.

bob church
bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu