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Fireworks Screensaver for 4th of July
I've always liked screensavers. Flying toasters will always hold a special place in my heart, but I continue to be impressed by Skyrocket, a free screensaver that renders fireworks on your display. Perfect for your 4th of July party, not only is Skyrocket free, it's also a universal binary which runs fantastically on my Intel iMac. Be sure to turn on the smoke option and play around with the zoom level, Moon glow, and sound options.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pirate Bill said 5:40PM on 7-02-2006
Looks really nice, but it seems to make the System Preferences app crash a lot when testing and setting the preferences.
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jason said 6:46PM on 7-02-2006
I have beeen using this for a while now and think it is really cool. Thanks for reminding me to re-enable it for the 4th.
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mike said 1:20PM on 7-03-2006
this one is based on source code from really slick savers - http://reallyslick.com/ they're all OpenGL and quite beautiful. i've run these on both windows and macos x (G# based) for years now, nice to see someone furthering development to the intel macs!
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NewsReader said 6:13PM on 7-03-2006
They say that the sound aspect of this screensaver works on PPC. Can't say that's true on my setup (dual 1.25GHz G4 "Mirror Drive Door" running 10.3.9). A few brief blips, then a click or two, then nothing.
Video aspect is pretty, but definitely strains my G4 ...
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