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- From: af458@yfn.ysu.edu (Jon K. Salmon)
- Subject: Re: screen saver routines
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:49:53 GMT
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- Sam Shim writes:
- > I'm planning on incorporating a screen saver into my program.
- >From what I gather, I'll need to hook onto 2 interrupts, 0x1C and
- >0x09. My hook to interrupt 0x1C will increment a counter every
- >time it is called and if the counter is greater than a certain
- >amount of time, blank the screen. My hook to interrupt 0x09 will
- >unblank the screen and clear the counter if the screen is already
- >blanked, otherwise it will just clear the counter. Can someone
- >tell me if this will work or have any suggestions/improvements?
-
- Sounds like the right direction to me. There is a PC Magazine
- utility (DIMMER) which might provide some additional information
- about the interrupt handlers if you need it, even though the
- screen blanking routine itself is VGA specific. The source is
- assembly. I can mail the source if you like. Lemme know.
-
- -- Jon
-