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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screen Savers
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Date: 13 Apr 89 16:15:54 GMT
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In article <757@iex.UUCP> iex!cramer (Bill Cramer) writes:
>We recently bought some big screen monitors for a few of our Macintoshes.
>I've looked at a few screen saver programs (Pyro, Dimmer) and found that
>they work fine on the dinky screens of the SE and Plus, but behave
>*unusually* on the big screens.  Are newer versions of these products
>available that will work on bigger monitors?

The latest version of the Moire cdev screensaver works well with all
large monitors I've seen to date.  It will sometimes interact oddly
with other INITs and cdevs, which require that it be renamed to
!moire or zmoire to alter the installation order.  I like it for
its ability to be customized somewhat (speed, number of moire lines,
geometrical shapes) and for how fast it runs even on large monitors.
Oh, yes, it will sometimes cause programs that don't redraw the
screen properly to require a user act to force a redraw after it
engages and clears, but I don't think that's Moire's fault.

Moire should be available by ftp from several sites; if not,
it can be obtained from your local user group.

John Heckendorn
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