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From: vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Fancy Screen Savers
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.181736.26556@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 18:17:36 GMT
References: <8471@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen)
Organization: The University of Dayton Computer Science Department, Dayton, Ohio
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In article <8471@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) writes:
>On the subject of fancy screen savers...
>
>There is a very nice one on Genie called STARSTRK.ARC (file #13445) that
>displays random starbust pattern. Stars are in color on a color monitor
>It's very nice on a mono monitor because you don't just get the black/white
>reversal but a real screen saver. The downsides: 1) it's a ACC rather than 
>a autofolder item(i.e. it takes one of the six precious spots) 2) the idle
>timeout length is hardwired to 3 minutes. All in all it's the best(and
>certainly the most entertaining) screen saver around.
>
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>*  Bob Luneski  :-}                              bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM  *
>*                                                                          *
>*  The opinions expressed herein are my own and in no way reflect the      *
>*  opinions of Tektronix, Inc.                                             *
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My personal opinion about this screen saver are mixed.  I like the concept, but
it has this strange problem of messing up screen draws (even the GEM Desktop).
I have found another program, which instead of having starbursts, has the 
Atari fuji symbol.  I'll post it to comp.binaries.atari.st and see what
everyone thinks...

Jim                                              vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu