Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:23673 comp.sys.mac.programmer:3419 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!iuvax!viking From: viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: MacsBug screen dimmer: Who wrote it? Message-ID: <15580@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 15:13:55 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Lines: 28 Does anyone have any experience with the MacsBug screen dimmer? This application is only 2,422 bytes long and seems to work well with all 68000 macs (not the Mac II). It installs itself with a message in the "Welcome to Macintosh" dialog at boot-up. MacsBug displays a clockface that appears at random locations every second while the screen is dimmed. It was developed early in the life cycle of the Mac (I believe) and yet it works with Multifinder and all new systems software. I've seen a debugger called MacsBug by Dan Allen (version 5.4) and I'm wondering if the programs had a common origin. (The debugger has no similar functionality...just the same name). Is this screen dimmer a public domain program? Shareware? Does anyone know who developed it? Is it in common use? (Out here, south of the Indiana cornfields, we never seem to get anything new until it's old hat on either coast...) :-) Thanks for any help with this... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon W. Backstrom "Yah sure...we gonna have fun, you bet!" Computer Science Department Indiana University Internet: viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Lindley Hall 101 UUCP: {ames,rutgers,pur-ee,att}!iuvax!viking Bloomington, IN 47405 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------