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- From: taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: One solution to your blanker needs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.101349.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:13:49 GMT
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
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- To the folks concerned with Twilight Zone...
-
- I too would like to see a modular blanker on the Amiga that performs
- similar to AfterDark on the Mac. I have, however, found something
- that I appreciate more in some ways. I like blankers like Spliner,
- FracBlanker, StarBlanker, ASwarm, FlyingToasters (new one!) and would
- like them to be available in such an application. Well, friends, I have
- what I consider to be the best of both worlds. The above blankers all
- sit in one drawer on my system (with nothing else in the drawer). A
- program called RXBlanker occupies a line in my UserStartup. RXBlanker
- calls a program from my blanker drawer randomly at each bootup and
- copies it to the WBStartup drawer with the generic name of BLANKER (thus
- it is overwriting the 'blanker' from the previous session. The result
- is:
-
- 1) I have a randomly selected blanker at each bootup (I like that!)
- 2) I can add to the system simply by dropping new blankers in the
- blankers drawer whenever they come along. It took every bit of
- 10 seconds to unarchive Flying Toasters and drop it in a few weeks ago.
- 3) any time I want one blanker exclusively I can simply move the others
- to a holding drawer leaving the desired blanker alone in the main
- blanker directory. I occasionally do this when doing long text sessions
- for days at a time when I prefer the pointer blanking available from
- FracBlanker.
-
- NOTE: if you are interested in RXBlanker it has been available at physik
- and its mirrors for some time now. BEWARE, however, there is a program
- with a similar name that has been confused with this. RXBlanker is what
- you want if you are interested in what I have just described.
- RoxBlanker is the similarly named program, Rox VS RX. RoxBlanker is
- another 'modular' blanker that uses blanking modules of its own format.
- I confess to knowing very little about RoxBlanker except that I did
- download it and was not impressed by the quality of the modules it
- came with. (personal opinion only)...
-
-
- $.02
-
- Terry taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
-