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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Screen blankers
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.154345.25024@truevision.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 15:43:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.143420.24871@milton.u.washington.edu> <107@hdwr1.medar.com>
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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.
>
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You should check out Mach II (or III).  It has all the screen blank, mouse
blank/accelerate, function keys, clock stuff that I have seen in these type
of programs.  It also has a nice screen for online editing of parameters.  
If that isn't enough for us customization junkies, the kicker is that all
these parameters can be configured on a per window basis.  You can specify
different parameters to be loaded when you click in a particular window.
System tweaking OverDose!  Oh, god, here comes the rush again...
-- 
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