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From: yenl@ics.uci.edu (Yen Te Robert Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Intermission (Re: After Dark for Windows?)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 23:15:56 GMT
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In <67620007@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) writes:

>In order to get these displays, there is a disk cost to store them all.
>If you install all 35 animations and kits you're looking at 930KB of disk 
>space.  By comparison, ScreenPeace 1.2 supplies 6 animations for a total disk
>cost of 65KB.  SP animations run about 3-5KB each, versus AD's 6-100KB each.
>Neither product requires you to load any animations (you get a black screen
>in this case) in which case the disk costs are 150KB vs 48KB.  I don't have 
>access to Intermission (the SP follow-on), so I cannot provide its statistics.  
With Intermission, the animation file sizes range from 2-97K, though
most of them are < 15K.  There are 34 of them, some of them appeared
in ScreenPeace and some are new.  As with SP and AD, you don't need 
any of the animiation files - it will just blank the screen.


>Two problems I've detected with AfterDark:
>    1) When blanking a full-screen DOS application, it does not always
>       restore the proper colors when it stops blanking.  I've not been
>       bothered by that as I can run a simple utility to reset the palette.

I have not noticed that problem with Intermission.
-- 
Robert Lee, Class of 1991         |
University of California, Irvine  |