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From: jeroen@pluto.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Are there any original screen blankers out there?
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Date: 12 Nov 90 09:59:36 GMT
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Reply-To: jeroen@pluto.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
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Has anyone ever seen After Dark for the Macintosh? It's a screen blanker with
all the features, it's modular, so you can add your own favourite gimmick...
and on my Mac IIci the program, even without all the modules available, takes
up some 600 kB of disk space. Does this sound like a screen saver you'll want
to use on a daily basis? Nope.

I'm glad on the ST there still are screen savers that only use 120 bytes of
memory, that don't need half your hard disk, that don't waste 20% of your
computer time...

I now, it's me, I have a bug about these things... I'd like programmers to
spend
their precious time on other (useful?) things; there's lots and lots of work to
be done yet out there of a higher priority, I think.

Let's not quarrel over screen savers when even the ultimate word processor is
not available.