vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen) (02/02/90)
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