Screensavers...

[Khephren]

So I looked at some of the screensaver packages for AGA classic, & they are quite nice, but without the wow factor I was after.

Then I started watching old scene demos productions from CD coverdisks. I noticed a lot of the smaller ones run fine with low chip ram, and go back to workbench on a right click, a lot have also been WHDloaded.

Would it be possible to write a program/arexx script to randomly run one (or a list) after a set amount of time with out the mouse/keyboard/joystick being touched? then all you would have to do is right click to get back to WB.

Apologies if this has been done, I searched aminet first.

[Franko]

You could write a small program in 68k Assembler to do such a task, but I don't think you'd be wanting to do it via a script, unless you intend to only run the script once at startup.

Also you might have problems launching various ScreenBlanker progs at the same time, as the way they work they tend to set up interrupts which may then clash.

Best idea would be to create a small script or program to launch each time you boot/re-boot to randomly select which screen blanker to run, if that's what you really want to do...

[Khephren]

Cool, cheers franko, BTW, i'm going through my old cover disk collection as we speak, i'll ADF any not on your site and pass them to you. unfortunately the ones from my mums loft seem to (mainly) be a lost cause...

[Franko]

No problem, and cheers mate for the coverdisks offer, that would be cool...