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Article #29770Re: IDLE - replaces NITE (now Megmatic)
From: Lee Dickey
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1987 13:09
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1987 13:09
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In article <4495@ihlpg.ATT.COM> tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes: ]In article <2478@usceast.UUCP>, wilhite@usceast.UUCP (Robert Wilhite) writes: ]> >Here is IDLE, an alternative to NITE. It should not cause any problems, ]> Wouldn't it be easier just to save the palate values and set them ALL ]> to black (000) ? ] ]> ...or am I forgetting something? ]You are forgetting that with mono it doesn't really use the color pallette ]all it checks is the first pallette color for whether to invert the screen. I think this must be the mistake that Megmatic made. The screen should go black, but in fact it goes to reverse video. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@watmath.UUCP UUCP: ...!uunet!watmath!ljdickey ljdickey%water@waterloo.edu ljdickey@watdcs.BITNET ljdickey%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: IDLE - replaces NITE (now Megmatic) Keywords: IDLE NITE screen saver Message-ID: <1313@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 21 Dec 87 13:09:59 GMT References: <3167@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <2478@usceast.UUCP> <4495@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18