Short: 2 useful tiny utilities for DMouse Architecture: m68k-amigaos * * * * * DMouse Tools * * * * * version 1.0 by Rainer Koppler August 30th, 1992 General Information *************************************************************** Disclaimer DMouse tools are Freeware. This means, that you are allowed to spread only the complete archive without charging any fee for any part of it. Furthermore the author takes no response for any damage caused by the usage of any program contained in this archive. Requirements To use DMouse tools you need the program "DMouse" by Matt Dillon (at least v1.25). What are "DMouse tools" ? DMouse tools are useful programs running in combination with DMouse. They make use of the IPC mechanism which DMouse offers. This version of DMouse tools contains 2 utilities: - DBlankNow - DSysMouse *************************************************************** 1. DBlankNow "DBlankNow" activates DMouse's built-in screen immediately when it is run. This tools thus features a "blank-now" facility provided by many good screen blankers (also by own blanker "TwilightZone" ;-) ). Usage from shell: enter "DBlankNow" (after blanking the program terminates). *************************************************************** 2. DSysMouse DMouse's built-in mouse blanker is implemented as a quite dirty hardware hack (turing off sprite DMA, clearing data registers manually etc.) and does more than it should do: it turns off ALL sprites (thus it must be called "sprite blanker") !!! "DSysMouse" replaces the built-in mouse blanker with a system- conformant mouse blanker (SetPointer/ClearPointer) which turns off only one sprite: the mouse pointer. Usage from shell: enter "RUN >NIL: DSysMouse". *************************************************************** If you find any bugs or you have any ideas how to improve this product, then contact me: /// Rainer Koppler /// Stelzhamerstraße 9 \\\ /// A-4623 Gunskirchen \\X// Austria/Europe internet: rainer@soft.uni-linz.ac.at