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> This is my favorite screen saver in all the world. Normally I hate
> screen savers, I really do. If the point is to save the screen from
> burn-in (which doesn't happen these days), they're silly. If the
> point is to occupy my attention, I have a host of better ideas. If
> the point is to be pretty, they usually fail.
>
>
Except ElectroPaint. Which is something that came with SGI machines,
and I presume it still does. It was strange and hypnotic and I could
stare at it for hours. Once I set it running on twelve machines in the
same room and turned the lights off. That was pretty good.
Unfortunately and dammit, the source code to ElectroPaint has never
been released, and it only runs on SGI machines. This bugged me for
years. So I finally got off my butt and reimplemented it for the
Macintosh.
(Actually, the first thing I did was to reimplement it in sound.
That's [StonerSound][1], but I made it back into a visual toy after
that.)
DL #1 StonerView v1.1 (for Classic Mac OS)
DL #2 StonerView v1.1 & source code
DL #3 StonerView v1.2 (for Classic Mac OS)
DL #4 StonerView v1.2 & source code
DL #5 StonerView v1.5.0 (for Mac OS X)
DL #6 StonerView v1.5.1 (for Mac OS X)
DL #7 StonerView v1.5.0 & source code
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
Classic Mac OS compatibility notes:
StonerView uses QuickDraw 3D for its display system. If you don't have
QD3D, you'll have to download the latest version of QuickTime from
Apple's web site. StonerView should run on any PowerMac with System 7
or later. (QD3D only works on PowerMacs, so I'm afraid a 68K version
of StonerView isn't going to happen.)
If you find that StonerView is running too slowly, reduce the window
size. ( Yes, you can do this even though there's no grow button in the
bottom right corner. Sorry about that.)
[1]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/stonersound
