carson@darwin.ntu.edu.au (04/05/91)
Screen Blankers for the Amiga, have you ever seen the MACKIE screen blanker
it gives the best screen show of splines I have ever seen even the ones on the
MAC's don't compare. I use it with JRCOMM when downloading and there is no
slowing up of the downloading at all as I think it takes a lower priority
in the system and it stops everytime the computer needs more processing
power. It is not quite as elaborate as After Dark but the next bes thing
also the latest version of Dmouse has DLineart which give an animated screen
perforamance as well.--
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________________________________________________________________________yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) (04/05/91)
earson@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: >Screen Blankers for the Amiga, have you ever seen the MACKIE screen blanker >it gives the best screen show of splines I have ever seen even the ones on the >MAC's don't compare. I use it with JRCOMM when downloading and there is no >slowing up of the downloading at all as I think it takes a lower priority >in the system and it stops everytime the computer needs more processing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >power. It is not quite as elaborate as After Dark but the next bes thing ^^^^^^^ Interesting, Wonder HOW it knows when ya need more Power? >also the latest version of Dmouse has DLineart which give an animated screen >perforamance as well.-- Well due to a lot of MAC people flaming me about me Flaming AfterDark i wish to re-state that: On an Amiga you DO NOT want your screen blanker to take up CPU time. (OR take very little) How much time does a Blanker take up? Well you could use Xoper to measure CPU useage, run xoper, let the blanker kick in. Wait a little, move ya mouse ands see what Xoper says. -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu aka Willis F York aka Squid on IRC The only thing that Apple invented is the idea to borrow Xerox-invented ideas. (Hope THIS sig don't insult anyone!) :^)
mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) (04/06/91)
In article <yorkw.670853746@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >Screen Blankers for the Amiga, have you ever seen the MACKIE screen blanker >it gives the best screen show of splines I have ever seen even the ones on the >MAC's don't compare. I use it with JRCOMM when downloading and there is no >slowing up of the downloading at all as I think it takes a lower priority >in the system and it stops everytime the computer needs more processing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >power. It is not quite as elaborate as After Dark but the next bes thing ^^^^^^^ Interesting, Wonder HOW it knows when ya need more Power? Because everyone _always_ needs more processing power :-). Well due to a lot of MAC people flaming me about me Flaming AfterDark i wish to re-state that: On an Amiga you DO NOT want your screen blanker to take up CPU time. (OR take very little) Actually, the quoted segment above is right. Your blanker should run at very low priority. Then, no matter how much CPU it needs, when a higher-priority task needs the CPU, the blanker won't interfere with it. Even if your blanker isn't smart enough to set it's priority low, you can set it for the blanker. The scheduler makes it all happen without any more work on your part - that's what the scheduler is for. <mke -- Il brilgue: les toves lubricilleux Mike Meyer Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave, mwm@pa.dec.com Enmimes sont les gougebosqueux, decwrl!mwm Et le momerade horsgrave.
spectre@OAK.CIRCA.UFL.EDU (04/06/91)
I use a program called PopCLI (gives instant cli window at the touch of 2 keys) which also is a screen blanker. This is a small program worth getting. I have it installed in my startup-sequence.