Fifth Generation: Pyro! Screen Saver

#1 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 - 20:38

Rescued this mint condition historic screen saver from Weird Stuff fro $5.

One of the first screen savers for the Mac.

Just discovered this, a guy who converted the original Pyro! to OS X.

Edit: Doesn't look like it works with Intel OS X.

#2 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 - 00:37

Nice find... on both counts. I love pyro!

I think that pyrotheque supports Intel (snow leopard doesn't run on g4, does it?)

From the website:

1.2.0 (17-Jan-10):

Snow Leopard support.

Checkbox to disable the startup screen.

#3 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 - 02:03

installed Pyro! this weekend on the 180, from the old floppy... had it on my plus many years ago

#4 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 - 18:35

Maybe it doesn't support current MacBook Pros. The fancy fireworks are messed up on my computer. Looks like a bug in OpenGL.

#5 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 - 01:37

Looks fine on my MBP, with Lion installed.

#6 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 - 02:20

Hmm. 10.8 here as well. What's supposed to be a spark is large square. Oh well.

#7 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 - 18:30

Rescued this mint condition historic screen saver from Weird Stuff fro $5. One of the first screen savers for the Mac.

Nice, I missed that one...do have any pics of the package?