Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!infopro!david
From: david@infopro.UUCP (David Fiedler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen blanker for Hercules GC
Summary: personal experience
Message-ID: <25@infopro.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 01:43:49 GMT
References: <1976@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <129@mccc.UUCP> <1297@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
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Organization: Where the hell is Rescue, California?
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In article <1297@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, guest@vu-vlsi.UUCP (visitors) writes:
> In article <129@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
> >Not PD, but shareware is BURNOUT by Chris Dunford.  If that's not
> 
> If I recall correctly, in the doc file for BURNOUT it is recommended that
> the program is _NOT_ used with a Hercules card.

A week or two ago, I ran another PD program "SCRNSAVE" 
on my machine (with a Hercules clone card), and after a short amount of
time (15 or 20 minutes) smelled some hot components. I shut down real fast
and never ran it again after I figured out what had happened.
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