Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Screen blankers Message-ID: <10822@uwm.edu> Date: 6 Apr 91 22:30:45 GMT References: <1991Apr6.222007.10646@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 30 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article <1991Apr6.222007.10646@leland.Stanford.EDU>, by bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper): > 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? Do you realize you're telling me to buy Elan Performer so I can have something more interesting than just a blank screen? There's a good reason for wanting it, you know. I don't know if you have kids, but then again, neither do I. But I do have a kid brother, and his kid friends. And when they see the monitor off, or nothing on the screen, they'll pop out my disks, shut off the computer, turn it back on after 10 seconds, and play their games. I think not. I think VERY not. I don't want to have to put up with this. Not at all... The easy way out is to get a blanker that puts something on the screen, so they know it's being used. Which is most of the time... I'm making a collection, and so far, I've got 7 or 8. Still looking for Dmouse, at least the newest version I can find, but I found qmouse, two StarBlankers (two DIFFERENT ones...), two fireworks, and a nifty line-one that I'm using now by Loren Rittle, and btw, it's great. Still looking for more, and I've got a few I haven't named... -- - gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu - | IBM's brain is on overload, and Apple Gregory Block | needs to be potty-trained. C= may not Toaster+Amiga=The One True DTV | be marketing geniuses, but theyre the ________________________________| best engineers I've seen... -Wubba