Making a Mac Version?
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Bob Ewell
Aug 20, 2013, 3:25:36 PM8/20/13
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Hello. I have been interested for a while in a real, "genuine," matrix screensaver that looks like what the movies had, not some hyped up, half-attempted one like most. I can't believe more people haven't made more screesavers of the matrix. Anyway, even though I'm on a mac, I previewed your screensaver on my bootcamp Win7 partition and I am simply amazed at the quality. Being so amazed, I am disheartened a version doesn't exist for OS X.
Could you, the maker, release a fully-working version for the mac? I don't imagine it would be so hard, as I believe macs can run screensavers from flash files, and converting your screesaver to flash shouldn't be hard. I tried but couldn't convert your exe to flash myself with a few programs. Maybe flash isn't necessarily the way here, but it seems the best for me. Very eagerly expecting a positive reply.
Could you, the maker, release a fully-working version for the mac? I don't imagine it would be so hard, as I believe macs can run screensavers from flash files, and converting your screesaver to flash shouldn't be hard. I tried but couldn't convert your exe to flash myself with a few programs. Maybe flash isn't necessarily the way here, but it seems the best for me. Very eagerly expecting a positive reply.
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Aug 20, 2013, 3:44:23 PM8/20/13
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Subject: Making a Mac Version?
Hello. I have been interested for a while in a real, "genuine," matrix screensaver that looks like what the movies had, not some hyped up, half-attempted one like most. I can't believe more people haven't made more screesavers of the matrix. Anyway, even though I'm on a mac, I previewed your screensaver on my bootcamp Win7 partition and I am simply amazed at the quality. Being so amazed, I am disheartened a version doesn't exist for OS X.
Could you, the maker, release a fully-working version for the mac? I don't imagine it would be so hard, as I believe macs can run screensavers from flash files, and converting your screesaver to flash shouldn't be hard. I tried but couldn't convert your exe to flash myself with a few programs. Maybe flash isn't necessarily the way here, but it seems the best for me. Very eagerly expecting a positive reply.
Could you, the maker, release a fully-working version for the mac? I don't imagine it would be so hard, as I believe macs can run screensavers from flash files, and converting your screesaver to flash shouldn't be hard. I tried but couldn't convert your exe to flash myself with a few programs. Maybe flash isn't necessarily the way here, but it seems the best for me. Very eagerly expecting a positive reply.
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kshipp
Aug 20, 2013, 3:44:36 PM8/20/13
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Sorry, no short term plan to do a mac version. Mac is the opposite of *everything* and only limited to a few, cryptic programming languages that everyone hates. Don't get me started on programming languages. :( Maybe someday, when I have too much money and too much free time, I'll consider it.....
Bob Ewell
Sep 22, 2013, 3:57:21 PM9/22/13
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Hello, I don't know why you didn't approve my two extra messages I made a good month ago. I will reiterate and say now what I tried to then.
You say you don't want to code anything new in a language that is foreign to you, and that's fine. I perfectly understand that. In fact, I wouldn't have asked you if I wasn't sure you wouldn't have to code anything new. Both macs and windows can play screensavers from flash files, and most likely you constructed your screensaver in a flash format. Can you release the flash files that make up your screensaver? From there it would be easy to construct a working mac version. Again, I did my best to try to extract the flash files myself, but failed with the programs I found. Maybe you didn't it in flash, or did and haven't responded for some reason. Can you respond to this?
You say you don't want to code anything new in a language that is foreign to you, and that's fine. I perfectly understand that. In fact, I wouldn't have asked you if I wasn't sure you wouldn't have to code anything new. Both macs and windows can play screensavers from flash files, and most likely you constructed your screensaver in a flash format. Can you release the flash files that make up your screensaver? From there it would be easy to construct a working mac version. Again, I did my best to try to extract the flash files myself, but failed with the programs I found. Maybe you didn't it in flash, or did and haven't responded for some reason. Can you respond to this?
kshipp
Sep 23, 2013, 12:33:43 AM9/23/13
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Bob,
No, the screensaver is not flash-based, nor based on flash.
Someday, I may create something on the Mac, but not anytime soon. 1)..I need to work on projects that earn me $$$$$ for now. 2)..Mac doesn't support *real* programming languages. Don't get me started on that one....
ks
Marcel Englmaier
Sep 23, 2013, 1:15:22 AM9/23/13
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Ks,
Can you realease the source on something like github? I have some experience with mac and unix programming and making a port would be good practice for me.
Thanks,
-Marcel
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kshipp
Sep 23, 2013, 9:33:37 AM9/23/13
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