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From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Screen blankers
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.184454.26223@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 91 18:44:54 GMT
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In article <107@hdwr1.medar.com>, jseymour@medar.com (James Seymour) writes:
>In article <1991Apr4.143420.24871@milton.u.washington.edu> nemisis@milton.u.washington.edu (nemesis want-to-be) writes:
>>
>>Is there any screen blankers for the amiga like AFTER DARK on the MAC?
>>
>
>I don't know what "AFTER DARK" is, but there are screen blankers available
>for the Amiga.  A friend of mine is running something called (I think)
>Dmouse.  It blanks the screen, allows you to accelerate the mouse, and even
>blanks the pointer when the mouse has not been moved for a programmable (I
>think) amount of time.  He loves it.  Also, AmigaDOS 2.0 comes with it's
>own blanker program, which you can start manually or make happen on start-
>up if you want.  It's also programmable for time-out.  If you make it
>start up automatically, you can use a thingie called "commodities" to
>disable/enable it at will.

   After Dark is more than just a screen blanker.  It puts various types
of animations on the screen while the screen is 'blanked' to avoid monitor
burn-in.  If this person is looking for something along the lines of 
After Dark, I think he wants something that does more than just turn 
the screen black or put a few moving lines on the screen.

   After Dark comes with a large number of modules that put everything 
from color flying toasters to moving skylines of cities to shuffling 
pieces of the screen around (in a puzzle fashion) while the screen is
blanked.  A lot of this simple animations are quite fun to watch.  
Unfortunately, I have never come across anything coming close to resembling
this for the Amiga.

>
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