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Date:      29 Jan 1998 02:52:07 +0100
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Graphical screen saver
Message-ID:  <xzpzpkghws8.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:39:37 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <199801290039.RAA24901@usr08.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > > If we're going to do start doing graphical screensavers, then I
> > > suggest making the mechanism more general, rather than requiring a
> It seems to me that the format to use today for a "general shell"
> would be "whatever Windows 95 uses".

Nope, that's not it. What I meant was a kind of template for graphical
screensaver lkms, so that you only need to write the code to update
the screen (logo_update in my logo saver). The rest never changes
anyway.

FWIW, "whatever Windows 95 uses" is rather sub-optimal. Each
screensaver is simply a normal executable which is renamed to *.scr or
something. In Windows 95 they simply added switches for the demo mode
in the display settings menu.

It doesn't even have to be a Windows program; "way back when" ISTR
that somebody took one of Tran's demos (an early one) and hacked it to
quit on mouse or keyboard activity (originally it only stopped when
you pressed ESC), and released it as a Windows 3.1 screensaver.

(I have a dream about moving to the US, getting a job at Microsoft,
finding out where they keep the Windows source code, pinch it, slap a
GPL on it and spread it around on WaReZ sites... then hack their web
server and slip a fake press release onto it announcing their decision
to release Windows 9x under GPL. A guy can dream, can't he?)

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