Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!cbnewsm!nsw From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The Amiga featured in Computer Chronicles Message-ID: <1990Nov21.225617.21008@cbnewsm.att.com> Date: 21 Nov 90 22:56:17 GMT References: <1990Nov17.150858.55@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol Lines: 26 In article , yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: [ ... ] > See the Software revirew? A Progam like NAG for the MAC for ONLY $130. > I about Lost my Coffee at the mention of price. > (Last week they reviewed a SCREEN BLANKER for $30) IT used Full color > animations, Fish/Tosters/ect, What a Wast of CPU time. On the Amiga, we have C compiler wars, comm program wars, hard disk controller wars, etc. On the Mac, they have screen blanker wars. I swear I have never seen so much wasted effort as gets put into these commercial screen blankers (which, of course, never really "blank" the screen). On the other hand, a screen blanker is a great place to put neat little graphics hacks that have no real purpose. Some of them are really quite cute. The funny thing is that many of the modules they have in the blankers don't serve the ultimate purpose that they're supposed to. That is, they leave lots of stationary graphics on the screen, often in bright saturated colors. Woops! - Neil --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- Neil Weinstock @ AT&T Bell Labs // What was sliced bread att!edsel!nsw or nsw@edsel.att.com \X/ the greatest thing since?