Description
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CGXBlanker is a small ScreenBlanker for computers equipped with a
CyberGraphics/Picasso96-supporting Gfx-Board.
The blanker currently has the following Blanker-Modules:
- Black : just a black screen... ;)
- Moire : the classic colorful moire-blanker
- Forest : colorful fractal trees
- Spiral : an incredible rotating spiral
- Flower : a very nice blanker which draws several elliptic objects
- Pipe : a interesting blanker which lets you fly trough a 3D pipe
- Random : one of the blankers above is randomly chosen (except Black)
CGXBlanker also supports the DPMS energy-saving methods of modern
monitors. You can enable/disable this option and control the delay
before the blanker switches to the DPMS mode(s).
This blanker is a system-friendly commodity and you also have
keyboard shortcuts for immediate blanking, immediate DPMS and quit.
The blanker settings are easy to adjust with the CGXBlankerPrefs
program - this is much simplier than changing Tooltypes by hand.
Starting with V1.25, there is an ARexx port with allows the full
control of CGXBlanker by external applications (for example: deactivate
it before starting CDBurner-Software...)
Features
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CGXBlanker...
o supports (or better: needs) CyberGraphics or Picasso96
o is small
o has a prefs program with GUI
o is fast (available for 020+ and 040+)
o is a Commodity
o has an ARexx interface
o supports all three types of DPMS
o is fully configurable
o is systemfriendly designed
o is freeware
Requirements
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o AmigaOS 3.x+ (successfully tested with OS 3.1)
o GfxBoard running with CyberGraphX or Picasso96 and a
Workbench/DefaultPublicScreen running in >=256 Colors
Distribution
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CGXBlanker is FREEWARE. I would be happy to get an eMail if you like/use
it or if you have any questions about this tool.
Future
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- More blanker modules
- All of your good ideas
- Modular blanker modules
History
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V1.00: (27.03.1999)
** first public release **
V1.10: (05.04.1999)
- Added a Prefs-program with GUI for a simple configuration of
the large number of blanker parameters. The Prefs-program
now made the Tooltypes useless.
There where also a lot of changes to the blankers:
- Moire:
o Selectable amount of lines
o Full controlable random/fixed sped-settings
- Forest:
o Selectable number of trees to draw until clear-screen
o Changeable colorstep which controls the colors used
for every tree.
- Spiral:
o The spiral of the Spiral-Blanker now can rotate in both directions
(controlable: random, clock wise, counter clock wise)
o Selectable startangle (random or zero)
o Three point styles: pixel, lines and blocks
o Adjustable amoutn of points/elements
o Controlable speed of the gradient
- Added support for all three types of DMPS energy saving methods.
(the old version only supported the OFF-mode)
Thanks to Paul "ExiE" Strejcek for this suggestion!
- Now you can control what blankers the random module can choose.
V1.20: (15.11.1999)
** second public release **
- Added a nice new blanker module "Flower". Many thanks to
Roland Menzel for providing the very nice idea!!
V1.21: (16.11.1999)
- Made a mistake in the V1.20 release: I only included a 040
optimized version. This will surely crash on machines with
older CPUs... sorry... now there are two versions:
One for 68020 and above and one for 68040 and above.
- Added a installer script for easier installation...
V1.22: (17.11.1999)
- Removed a small bug in the installer script in expert mode.
Thanks to Rico Schreckenbach for reporting the problem!
V1.25: (03.03.2000)
** third public release **
- CGXBlanker now blanks immediately again if another screen or
window was brought to front by another application.
Thanks to Ingo Musquinier for reporting this problem!
- Added the ARexx-Interface to allow the control of CGXBlanker
from external applications.
Thanks, Andrew Bruno, for your initial idea (env-variable)!
- Removed a problem with time-measurement. Now everything should
be accurate!
Thanks to Bill Ceaser for reporting this problem!
- Added the "Don't blank if mouse is over titlebar" option.
Thanks to Andrew Bruno for this idea!
- Removed a compatibility problem (color-selection) with P96.
Thanks to Rico Schreckenbach for reporting this!
- The CGXBlankerPrefs program now informs the CGXBlanker
immediately, if there is a new setting to use. You now
also can immediately test the settings for each blanker by
clicking "Test Blanker".
- Added the Blanker "Pipe".
- Added an AmigaGuide documentation.
Author
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Stefan Robl <stefan.robl@tirnet.de>
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Have fun!
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