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From: wilhite@usceast.UUCP (Robert Wilhite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IDLE - replaces NITE
Message-ID: <2478@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 06:10:08 GMT
References: <3167@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: wilhite@usceast.UUCP (Robert Wilhite)
Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
Lines: 15
Keywords: IDLE NITE screen saver
Summary: Isn't there an easier way...?

>Here is IDLE, an alternative to NITE.  It should not cause any problems,
>since all it does is shift the video RAM pointer 32K below the normal
>location. . . .

Wouldn't it be easier just to save the palate values and set them ALL
to black (000) ?   Then a keypress could cause the old values to be
restored.  This (it seems to me) would always work.  Color or Mono.
No moving the video RAM pointer.  No need to check 32K for zeros.

...or am I forgetting something?
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Robert Wilhite
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