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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
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Subject: Re: Screen blankers
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Date: 6 Apr 91 22:20:07 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.184454.26223@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>
>   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.

After Dark is not a screen blanker.  If it were, it would blank the
screen.  It is pretty, but there are plenty of things like it for the
Amiga.  Get ARexx.  Then get Elan Performer.  Then write an ARexx script
that plays the Walker demo, or a Toaster anim, or anything by Eric
Schwartz, after a certain period of no input.  Blows After Dark to hell,
don't it?

> / Marc Barrett       | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET      /      

Marc, do you own an Amiga?  I've been curious for some time now.

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