Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!usceast!wilhite 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? -- -------------------------------- Robert Wilhite UUCP: ..ncrcae!usceast!wilhite CSNET: wilhite@cs.scarolina.edu