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From: dean@violet.berkeley.edu (Dean Pentcheff;4059 LSB;;39048;KG97)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen blanker for Hercules GC
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Date: 19 Jan 88 00:56:01 GMT
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Summary: BURNOUT (in one mode) is fine for Hercules boards.

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.

In fact, BURNOUT has two modes of action (switch selectable): it can
blank a screen by twiddling with the controller hardware (this lunches
Hercules cards), or it can blank a screen by simply writing blanks to
the video memory (restoring what was there originally after a
keypress).  The second mode is safe and effective.  Of course, it would
be nice if it automatically detected the herc board and used the
appropriate mode, but...

Anyway, BURNOUT is available from simtel20.arpa.

-Dean
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Dean Pentcheff	(dean@violet.berkeley.edu)
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