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Date: Sun 24-Nov-1991 23:20:44 From: nweaver@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas Weaver) Subject: Backspace modules I'd like to see... We all seem to know and love BackSpace, as it is the greatest screensaver since one could throw wonder bread and have it stick to the screen. Especialy since people are writing modules for it (unlike After Dark ect on the mac on which the only modules come with the thing or cost extra.) but there are still a few great screensavers that I would like to see... 1. A fishtank. Every screensaver has to have one. 2. A flying generic animated bitmap (using icon to make them...) 3. LUNATIC FRINGE!!!! (Or the equivelent....) Thanks. Nicholas C. Weaver ps. If people send me their requests for most wanted screensavers, I will post those in a week or two.... p.p.s Does Steve Jobs know about Backspace?? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Nicholas C. Weaver>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu |Disclaimer: I don't represent anyone but 193weave@qal.berkeley.edu |myself. Not UC. Not the OCF. And definately Non NeXT mail only please. |not Elvis
Date: Sun 25-Nov-1991 00:06:31 From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Subject: Re: Backspace modules I'd like to see... Excerpts From Captions of netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 24-Nov-91 Backspace modules I'd like .. Nicholas Weaver@hailstor (977) >3. LUNATIC FRINGE!!!! (Or the equivelent....) > No can do-- if I remember that paticular 'saver on the mac, it uses Color-LookUpTable animation. Can't do that on a NeXT-- it doesn't have CLUT's (bummer). If you could get at the RAMDAC directly and modify it's conversion table; it would be a different matter-- but I don't even know if that is possible (and is guaranteed to be difficult). Anyway, back to the realm of possibility, you CAN do some really cool color flows and moving colors-- some of the FooFaraw stuff will do that w/the mouse in the right spot. And MovingPolygons is cool (BTW: Yes, I did receive, no I haven't posted, yes, it will be soon... nice sentence, huh?). b.bum b.bumgarner | Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu | I officially don't represent anyone unless I NeXT Campus Consultant | explicity say I am doing so. So there. <Thpppt!> "I ride tandem with the random/Things don't run the way I planned them.."
Date: Sun 25-Nov-1991 00:26:41 From: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) Subject: Re: Backspace modules I'd like to see... In article <43728@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> nweaver@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas Weaver) writes: ... > p.p.s Does Steve Jobs know about Backspace?? .. He better ... and give that Sam Streeper guy a raise! Joe
Date: Sun 25-Nov-1991 17:08:20 From: blanford@spf.trw.com (Ronald P. Blanford) Subject: Re: Backspace modules I'd like to see... In article <43728@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> nweaver@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas Weaver) writes: > > 2. A flying generic animated bitmap (using icon to make them...) GlobeSaver will let you display any .anim file generated by Icon. You select the animation file using a dwrite described in the documentation.
Date: Sun 26-Nov-1991 18:52:39 From: me@cub.math.oxy.edu. (Demo Account) Subject: Re: Backspace modules I'd like to see... In article <43728@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> nweaver@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas Weaver) writes: > > We all seem to know and love BackSpace, as it is the greatest > screensaver since one could throw wonder bread and have it stick to the > screen. Especialy since people are writing modules for it (unlike > After Dark ect on the mac on which the only modules come with the thing > or cost extra.) but there are still a few great screensavers that I would > like to see... These are nice, too, but it also needs to be able to mix and match screen savers. There are some which do this, you know, where you can edit together two of your favorite savers on the screen at once. (For instance, have a fish tank swimming over a field of stars. Can someone add this to BackSpace itself? Just wondering.
Date: Sun 26-Nov-1991 18:31:42 From: kevin@pages.com, (Kevin Sven Berg) Subject: Re: Backspace modules I'd like to see... In article <43728@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> nweaver@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas Weaver) writes: > [...] > or cost extra.) but there are still a few great screensavers that I would > like to see... > > 1. A fishtank. Every screensaver has to have one. WIP. It requires decent artwork. > 2. A flying generic animated bitmap (using icon to make them...) Dude, check out Toasters and GlobeSaver. Its in there! - ksBerg;
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