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Article #40359Re: Fancy Screen Savers
From: James Van Leeuwen
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 18:17
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 18:17
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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.
>
>****************************************************************************
>* Bob Luneski :-} bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM *
>* *
>* The opinions expressed herein are my own and in no way reflect the *
>* opinions of Tektronix, Inc. *
>****************************************************************************
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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!udecc!udcps3!vanleeuw 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 Lines: 25