Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:53:45 -0500 From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2 Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990821105211.00ac6270@nfs.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <19990821102623.A20997@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908201930390.46719-100000@freja.webgiro.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908201930390.46719-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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At 10:26 AM 8/21/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: >On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > Both versions are available at: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz > > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz >FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix' implementations out there. >One is part of xscreensaver, and is quite nice -- it's even better if you >halve the size of the image it's using first. This has the advantage that >the characters actually look like the ones in the film (reversed numbers >and Japanese katana (sp?) characters). That one's (obviously) X only. > >The other is 'cmatrix'. A web search should turn it up. As the name >implies, this is a console version. For those of you using Windows or MacOs.... http://www.whatisthematrix.com/cmp/screensaver_index.html That's the 'official' screen saver. (The Windows version uses some kind of runtime ShockWave and eats nearly 100% cpu, but it looks authentic) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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