Invert and Invert Hack

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Basically needless to say, but this hack is not working on a Palm IIIc - for obvious reasons. But I thought I still mention it, though it's not crashing a Palm IIIc, just useless.

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Starting with the Palm IIIx and the Palm V(x), 3Com used a new style of LCD. When backlite, the display looks inverted. Like it or not, with Invert you can try out yourself how you like it better. . A word about power consumption: NO, the LCD won't *suck* your batteries to have all white pixels black. After all it doesn't take too much enegery to twist a little crystal :), but it takes a bit more. I meassured it, and it averages to about 1mA more. That's about 5% more of the consumption in idle mode. Considering Invert is only senseful when the backlight is on, the 1mA becomes totally academical.  . PLEASE NOTE: Invert is a little test utility. I don't intend to develop it any further! While I studied the data sheet of the DragonBall, I 'stumbled' across that bit of the D'Ball's LCD controller (don't run Invert on POSE, obviously the DragonBall is not 100% emulated <g>). . . Download INVERT.ZIP  v0.0001  (1kB) (Freeware) . . . . Well, why no automate it! Invert Hack automatically inverts the screen whenever the backlight is on and returns to normal mode when the backlight goes off again. Of course you need Hackmaster on your Palm to run Invhack. . . Download INVHACK.ZIP  v1.0  (3kB) (Freeware) .

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