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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: All Black Screen Savers
Message-ID: <48d147e8.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 15:40:00 GMT
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In article <1990Feb20.085117.15757@pcsbst.pcs.com> roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau) writes:
>bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White) writes:
>->Out of curiosity, wouldn't it be simpler just to set all the colors to zero?
>
>This does not work in monochrome mode. You can't set both colors to black
>- the systems probably recognizes only 1 bit of the color table ( standard
>vs. inverted ).

Note that, from what has been said here about it, the TT's 640x400
'monochrome' display mode really does pay attention to both color 0
and color 1.  (I believe the mode is actually called 'duochrome' on
the TT, ugg.)  Such a blanker would work on the TT, at least for the
3 ST resolutions.
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