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## BlitzBlank

VERSION

2.60

AUTHOR

Thomas Boerkel

E-Mail: thomas@amiga_inside2.schiele-ct.de

DESCRIPTION

BlitzBlank is a modular screen blanker package with the following features:

- stable
- fast
- low cpu-time usage by the blanker task
- comfortable
- highly configurable
- many interesting, fancy, nice modules
- compatible with most graphics cards
- build-in mouseblanker
- nice GUI
- ARexx interface
- joyport monitoring
- AmigaGuide docs with context-sensitive help
- Installer script for easy and automatic installing
- flexible random option
- no burn-in if the blanker halts (because another task needs the CPU)
- no crash or hang, if a nasty program opens its window on the blanker screen
- adjustable mouse sensitivity
- reblanking
- UnInstaller for riskless testing
- 39 modules: AmigaSign, ASwarm, Butterfly, Clock, Crumble, Dissolve, Electric, Execute, Fade, Flash, FlyingToaster, Fountain, Fractal, Goats, Gravity, Guru, Life, Lines, Mandel, Maze, Melt, Mosaic, Noise, PatternCycling, Plasma, Pyro, Radar, Skyline, Slideshow, Snow, Splines, Spot, StarField, Text, TicTacToe, Tiles, Tunnel, Worms, Worms2.

NEW FEATURES

- 10 new modules: ASwarm, FlyingToaster, Fractal, Goats, Gravity, Maze, Plasma, Skyline, StarField, TicTacToe
- reblanking
- BlitzBlank rewritten in C -> significantly shorter (39 KB -> 16 KB)
- many bugfixes and enhancements (see history in the guide)

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

- AmigaOS 2.0 or better
- MUI 2.3

AVAILABILITY

FTP/Internet: AmiNet and mirrors

ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/util/blank/BlitzBlank260.lha (656459 bytes)

PRICE

GIFT/CARD-ware (if the user WANTS to give something)

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Freely distributable.
Copyright 1993-1995 by Thomas Boerkel.
Copyright of some modules by their respective authors.