Barry,
>      The delays had no effect here. That's why I removed them :)
Sorry to hear that. It really is quite an impressive fade and, since 
it was published in PC Mag as a general purpose thing, I guess you 
must have an unusual video card. I seem to recall that you said
MODE CON LINES=43
didn't work either. Weird!
> MB> I liked your idea of hitting a key to get the fadeup. The two together
> MB> with the keyhit between make a fun CLS.
>
>     Hmmm... more like a screen saver. I use the fade as one of a few cls
>     routines called randomly. After the fadeout mode 3 is called and the
>     cursor is placed upper left.
If you want a (blank) screen saver try turning to VDU off. Saves 
electricity (;=))> [bald, big nose, big grin, beard].
Try this as a software way of doing it (so long as you aren't using
video page 1). Again can't guarantee that it'll work on your machine
but it should.
;---------------------------------------------------
;I call this V.8 and it assembles with A86 to make V.COM.
;Just type V+[Enter key] to hide screen. Hit any key to get it back.
; 
;Generally I use an old PD screensaver TSR called BLANKER. Hit the
;hot key -> black screen. Hit the space bar and get the screen back. 
;Some programs (eg PROTEXT) don't like it so I then use V instead and 
;hit the spacebar just the same.
mov ax,501h
int 10h          ;get video page 1
mov ax,0100h
mov cx,2020h
int 10h          ;cursor off
mov ax,1001h
mov bh,0
int 10h          ;border black
mov ah,0
int 16h          ;wait any key
mov ax,500h
int 10h          ;get page 0
mov ax,0100h
mov cx,0607h
int 10h          ;cursor on
int 20h          ;exit
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