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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
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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...

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Jon W. Backstrom             "Yah sure...we gonna have fun, you bet!"
Computer Science Department
Indiana University           Internet: viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
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