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From: jimmy@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Screen blankers
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Date: 12 Apr 91 01:39:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.184454.26223@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>   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.
>                              -MB-    

After Dark is a nifty program but then you haven't mentioned the nifty
price of ~$49 that you will have to pay for it.  I would rather use 
a free screen blanker like ClockDJ and buy a game for that price.

There is also the factor that if After Dark pops up and your Mac is
hooked up to a Server then the program will slow down the network.  
A friend of mine that does programming on the Mac noticed this effect
when he was doing some database programming on the Mac with After Dark
running.  Many or all of the Amiga screen blankers will not affect 
CPU performance or network performance (I think..8-)).