"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
>
> Some people have indicated they'd like a version of the program with
> a pretty screen-saver interface. Fair enough, provided we can keep
> the "classic" version without the extra overhead.
>
The screen-saver idea is important for another reason.
I asked several coworkers and secretaries to let Prime95 (NTprime,
actually) run on their PCs and they agreed, but they were less than
happy when I asked them to change the pretty 3-d screen savers for
something that lets NTprime have more cpu power. With the selection
Microsoft offers right now, that means "Blank Screen" or "Marquee" -
neither is extremely exciting to watch. Before long, most of them went
back to the old screen savers and NTprime slowed down to a halt.
A pretty screen saver that uses very little cpu time would free up a lot
of resources for background computing. It doesnt have to come in the
Prime95 package (tough a screen saver that displays progress might be
nice), just a separate program would do so we can offer something for
those pc users that dont really care what the computer is doing as long
as it looks nice (theres a lot of them).
> Probably the easiest improvement to make is to have the documentation
> translated into some other languages;
I have no idea how good I am at translating technical documentation - I
never tried before, but if theres demand, I can give it a try for a
german version of "Primzahl95" *g*
> Regards
> Brian Beesley
Ciao,
Alex.
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