Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Darkness Screen Saver Message-ID: <34518@news.Think.COM> Date: 7 Mar 90 14:22:33 GMT References: Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 26 In article ml10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael A. Libes) writes: >Tired of watching the Moire pattern, fireworks? Don't want to spend $35 >for a screen saver? Pyro! 4.0 is $22 at MacConnection. If you already own Pyro!, you can upgrade to 4.0 for $15 or you can switch to After Dark 1.1 for the same price. See MacWEEK 6 March 1990, page 10, "Berkeley Systems woos Pyro! owners." If you don't get MacWEEK, call Berkeley at 415-540-5535 to ask about switching. >Darkness is a new idea in screen savers. It is a background-only >Multifinder program, not an INIT or CDEV. It is compatible with all >programs which are "Multifinder aware." >Darkness is also extendible. Anyone with a little Mac programming >experience can use the included source code to create whatever pattern >he wishes. My favorite is pitch black, but there are other "Blackouts" >included. Pyro! 4.0 and After Dark are also extensible. Time to revive that old Dali Clock... -- Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142 One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.