yoon@aludra.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon) (12/09/90)
Hi fellow netters !! I'v been using windows 3.0 in since it's been official released. Up to now I'v tried a couple of the screen savers for windows, and couldn't satisfied with any of these. Here is what I'd experienced with various screen savers. o magic : My system went stuck as soon as screen saver started to operate *while DOS window(windowed) was active*. o egautil (for windows) : While I was out of windows, egautil recognized only mouse not a keyboard. I was playing game at that time. There was another problem but I can't recall it now. o Screen Peace (v1.2+) : In most cases it worked fine. But I noticed problems with "emtex" and "freemacs".(Of course both of them are DOS APPS) When I intensionally break the execution of emtex or if the execurion of "emtex" stops due to some errors, I type "x" which is an exit command, and immediately system halts. If I exit from "freemacs", there appears windows error message saying "violation of system integrity", and the DOS shell dies. BTW, I'v set option disabling screen saver while DOS app is active. o MS (monitor saver) : I didn't try many times, as I had to click mouse button on "registeration dialog" while loading the program. This really bothers me especially for the applications which should be automatically loaded during windows boot-up. All the problems were related to only DOS apps. Could someone add any comments on my experiences with screen savers ? Could someone recommend any other screen savers (PD or shareware) ? BTW, I am running windows on: 386sx clone 4M memory (2M on mother board 2M on expansion board) ATI Vgawonder 512K with mouse. SONY 1304 Multi SCan monitor. 78M HD (ST 251-1 + Perstor PS180FN controller) Running 4DOS as my primary shell. Thanks... -- ----------------------------------------------- Dae-kyun Yoon dkyoon@usc.edu, ..!uunet!usc!dkyoon