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From: obrien@venus.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: LCD friendly screen savers?
Message-ID: <677.27634399@venus.ycc.yale.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 13:13:12 GMT
Organization: Yale Computer Center (YCC)
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I run Windows both on a desktop colour 286 and a laptop LCD 386SX (Tandon,
WONDERFUL machine!).  I have Screen Peace installed on each machine.  However,
most SPX programs blank the screen to black which, of course, is exactly the
opposite of what you want on an LCD, where keeping a pixel black is what costs
you, both in terms of power usage and wear and tear on the screen!  For this 
reason, the only SPX I've found that I can use is PUZZLE, which just shuffles 
the screen, but doesn't try to make it black.

a)  Can someone recommend any other SPX's which don't suffer from this problem
(I believe I have all of those posted so far).

b)  Would it be possible for authors of SPX programs to allow another checkbox
in the dialog to toggle between LCD and regular phosphor modes?  Or is this
something that the author of Screen Peace would have to do?  (I can't recall -
it's been quite a while since I looked at the programming interface to Screen
Peace).  I don't have MSC or the SDK (I use Actor) so I can't do the job
myself.

I should add that the keyboard command to reverse the screen is unavailable
under Windows.  Also, having to toggle back and forth would wake up Screen
Peace, defeating the purpose....

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