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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Screen blankers
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.111052.26720@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Apr 91 11:10:52 GMT
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In article <10822@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>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?

Nope, just suggesting that you buy Elan Performer if you want something
like After Dark, a bloated CPU/memory-hog that taxes the Mac's capacity 
to animate.  Personally, I use Mackie or Klide.  Simple, small, and
impressive as all get-out.

>	Gregory Block		|  needs to be potty-trained.  C= may not

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