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| Status | Free for development. |
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| Short description |
| Program to use Windows .scr blanker modules on Amiga |
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| Winblank |
| Full description |
| There are so many blankers available for Windows, It would be nice to see some of them on the Amiga. With PC emulators running on the Amiga, wouldn't it be possible to write an emulation module to handle just screenblanker modules? |
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I have made some [very basic] interactive windows screensavers [.scr] and all they are is Windows executables [.exe] that support certain command line strings [ -p = preview, -c = configure, -s = show; if i remeber correctly] that are renamed to end in .scr, so if you want to do this, just make a windows emu [EVIL]
15/04/2002
tonsofpcs
I think what Elliot has failed to realise is the complexity required to provide an environment under which Windows screensavers could run on an Amiga. Lets consider what you would have to provide to the .SCR file: 1) Some form of 80x86 emulation. 286 should do for the basic screensavers, but screensavers get more complex as PC's do, so the more up to date the processor emulated, the more .SCR files you could use. 2) A large portion of the standard Windows API. You simply cannot tell how much of Windows will be used by a .SCR file. Some use sound, some use graphics, some use OpenGL, they're all going to want to allocate RAM via the Windows API for sure... 3) I/O. The .SCR file is going to need keyboard and mouse input events translated from Intuition messages to Windows events. At this point we have a 80x86 based Windows Kernal. Hmmm.. far too useful to just limit to .SCR files. :-)
26/04/1999
Peter Gordon
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