Interesting questions

[Patrick C Beard]

In article <401 at creatures.cs.vt.edu> davism at vtopus.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis) writes:
#In article <2259 at sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam at cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
#>>5. Is there good screen saver that works efficiently in either system?
#>
#>All of the normal Macintosh screensavers that I've tried will
#>work correctly under the A/UX 2.0 Macintosh emulation.
#
#At least, they do with the newer beta version.  
#... but After Dark frequently generates an "unimplemented csCode=4" dialog
#from A/UX.  Based on something that happened with the "Dimwit" module from 
#Pyro! 4.0, I'd guess that this is a driver call to set the brightness of the
#screen.

You are correct about that.  Can anyone from Apple comment on whether this
will be supported in the final release of 2.0?  I would assume that you saw
the problem more frequently under After Dark because ANY module can ask After
Dark to dim the screen.



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