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From: barad@othello.usc.edu (Herb Barad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screen saver for a Mac II
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Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 13:28:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  3 13:28:30 1987
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Summary: Try Pyro

In article <16292@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> dplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dave Platt) writes:
>While installing PD/shareware stuff on a friend's new Mac II last
>night (see my previous posting for information about games that run on
>the II) I tried most of my collection of screen-savers to see which,
>if any, would work.  Most don't;  one does.

Autoblack will not work on a Mac II.  I don't have a Mac II, but I
know someone who has tried it.  I just bought Suitcase yesterday and a
freebee came with it called "Pyro" - it is a screensaver that (at
least as advertised) works with any Mac (with system 3.2 or greater)
and any screen.  In fact, it should work in color on a color monitor.
Pyro puts on a little fileworks display when the machine has been idle
for a specified period of time.  Kinda nice.  Pyro can even be
adjusted as it shows up in the Control Panel.

One drawback, Pyro DOES suspend the current program.  Background tasks
keep going (print spoolers, Appletalk, etc.), but foreground tasks are
suspended.  This is not quite as nice as Autoblack, but both are
invoked automatically.  I still prefer Autoblack, but Pyro is would
win where Autoblack doesn't work.


Herb Barad	[USC - Signal and Image Processing Institute]
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