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Article #41235Re: All Black Screen Savers
From: Steve Rehrauer
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 15:40
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 15:40
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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. -- >>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com "Flee, lest we be trod upon!" | The Apollo System Division of H.P.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!apollo!rehrauer 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 References: <271*latornell@mech.ubc.ca> <1281@lzsc.ATT.COM> <1990Feb10.153630.29627@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1118@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <1990Feb20.085117.15757@pcsbst.pcs.com> Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Reply-To: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA Lines: 16