slomacuser,
if you like really early After Dark screensavers you can already run them in OSX and run them as a full screen screen saver, stopping it by eventually moving mouse or using keyboard), and selecting your own inactivity start timer too.
"Really?" you ask? Yes. I tried it an hour ago. I downloaded a copy of "DarkSide of the Mac 5.0.6" which has a ton of algorithmic screen savers.
I installed it by running its installer, on a machine with Mac OS 9.2.2 on it running in OSX 10.4.11 on a set of PowerPC chips. Then on the hard drive i double clicked on Darkside. worked fine.
Then i ran its settings menu option and played with all the little screensavers on a 1680 pixel wide screen
nearly all ran!
Then I gave permission in Darkside to change screen depth (i have it at 32 bits, not 256 normally).
Then all of them ran except 2 or 3 that gave a error that said I needed QuickDraw GX installed. ( I thought i had it installed, but oh well).
I did not try any official After Dark modules. some early ones should work.
I then set time to 15 seconds and "random" after jacking up every setting to most complex and most objects in each screen saver.
Interestingly they all used most of my screen properly.
Darkside comes with about 49 screen server plugins and source code to two examples for people to start writing their own.
Its not a full solution, but a few of them were very mesmerizing when made to do a lot of work.
Some of them required 256 color mode, but the screen saver under osx swapped resolutions back and forth without any effort, though had a few seconds of delay.
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The proper full solution is to get Basilisk 2 compiled and hacked and customized to run AfterDark 4 engine or something similar, so that all the other modules can get running from the 10 or so other collection sets.
Then OSX can run every module as a screen saver, not just these oldest ones, and not just on PowerPC machines in 10.4 or 10.3
if you like really early After Dark screensavers you can already run them in OSX and run them as a full screen screen saver, stopping it by eventually moving mouse or using keyboard), and selecting your own inactivity start timer too.
"Really?" you ask? Yes. I tried it an hour ago. I downloaded a copy of "DarkSide of the Mac 5.0.6" which has a ton of algorithmic screen savers.
I installed it by running its installer, on a machine with Mac OS 9.2.2 on it running in OSX 10.4.11 on a set of PowerPC chips. Then on the hard drive i double clicked on Darkside. worked fine.
Then i ran its settings menu option and played with all the little screensavers on a 1680 pixel wide screen
nearly all ran!
Then I gave permission in Darkside to change screen depth (i have it at 32 bits, not 256 normally).
Then all of them ran except 2 or 3 that gave a error that said I needed QuickDraw GX installed. ( I thought i had it installed, but oh well).
I did not try any official After Dark modules. some early ones should work.
I then set time to 15 seconds and "random" after jacking up every setting to most complex and most objects in each screen saver.
Interestingly they all used most of my screen properly.
Darkside comes with about 49 screen server plugins and source code to two examples for people to start writing their own.
Its not a full solution, but a few of them were very mesmerizing when made to do a lot of work.
Some of them required 256 color mode, but the screen saver under osx swapped resolutions back and forth without any effort, though had a few seconds of delay.
-------
The proper full solution is to get Basilisk 2 compiled and hacked and customized to run AfterDark 4 engine or something similar, so that all the other modules can get running from the 10 or so other collection sets.
Then OSX can run every module as a screen saver, not just these oldest ones, and not just on PowerPC machines in 10.4 or 10.3