Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IDLE - replaces NITE (now Megmatic)
Keywords: IDLE NITE screen saver
Message-ID: <1313@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 87 13:09:59 GMT
References: <3167@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <2478@usceast.UUCP> <4495@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <4495@ihlpg.ATT.COM> tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes:
]In article <2478@usceast.UUCP>, wilhite@usceast.UUCP (Robert Wilhite) writes:
]> >Here is IDLE, an alternative to NITE.  It should not cause any problems,
]> Wouldn't it be easier just to save the palate values and set them ALL
]> to black (000) ?
]
]> ...or am I forgetting something?
]You are forgetting that with mono it doesn't really use the color pallette
]all it checks is the first pallette color for whether to invert the screen.

I think this must be the mistake that Megmatic made. 
The screen should go black, but in fact it goes to reverse video.

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