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Date: Sun 02-Oct-1991 01:21:26 From: sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) Subject: A fun screensaver I recently submitted my screen saver application to the purdue archive, /pub/next/2.0-release/source/BackSpace.tar.Z on nova.cc.purdue.edu The application is called BackSpace, and I hope you like it. It comes with about 10 screen saver modules that give you different interesting effects and demonstrate quite a few different techniques of animation. In addition, it's easily user extensible; you can write your own modules, and incorporate them without recompiling BackSpace. It does a few other things; If you have a color system, it can set your background color without requiring a memory consuming window, and it can function as a basic screen lock. It gets its name from one of the modules, a starfield that simulates space flight and can be used as a screen background. BackSpace makes a pretty good test-bench for animation code because you can just write the animation display and let BackSpace worry about support code. BackSpace works on all NeXT systems. It compiles and runs under NeXTstep 2.0 and greater, but it requires 2.1 for complete functionality. (On a 2.0 system, the screen darkens so much that you can hardly see the screen saver animations). You should not use BackSpace at a site that is running the Zilla supercomputing application; BackSpace can steal much or most of the idle processing time from Zilla. This program comes with no warrantee of fitness for any particular purpose. Though I am employed by NeXT Computer, BackSpace is not supported not endorsed by NeXT in any way. enjoy, -sam ps I see that bill bumgarner has already submitted the first additional module to purdue. You might grab that one too - its quite nice.
Date: Sun 02-Oct-1991 13:04:06 From: dschuetz@anywhere.umd.edu (David Schuetz) Subject: Re: A fun screensaver Sam Streeper writes > I recently submitted my screen saver application to the purdue archive, > /pub/next/2.0-release/source/BackSpace.tar.Z I just picked it up yesterday. Kinda neat... But I have one question: Is it possible for me to make that the *standard* system screen-saver? I've been running something called "dozer" for a while that blacks the screen out (after the Preferences dim-time). Is there any way I can make BackSpace run all the time, especially between login sessions? david.
Date: Sun 04-Oct-1991 14:41:31 From: rich@vaxkiller.agi.org (Richard E. Showalter) Subject: Re: A fun screensaver In article <9829@umd5.umd.edu> dschuetz@anywhere.umd.edu (David Schuetz) > Sam Streeper writes > > I recently submitted my screen saver application to the purdue archive, > > > /pub/next/2.0-release/source/BackSpace.tar.Z > > I just picked it up yesterday. Kinda neat... But I have one question: > > Is it possible for me to make that the *standard* system screen-saver? I've [stuff deleted] > david. I would like to do this also.
Date: Sun 08-Oct-1991 01:46:31 From: sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) Subject: Re: A fun screensaver In article <9829@umd5.umd.edu> dschuetz@anywhere.umd.edu (David Schuetz) > Is it possible for me to make (BackSpace) the standard system screen-saver? (meaning the one activated when no one is logged in) This is somewhere between difficult and impossible at this time. I'd kind of like it too... -sam
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