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Red Baron screensaver for those with strong stomachs
If you're the sort who rides roller coasters for fun, who takes cruises through the North Atlantic in wintertime and laughs at the green pallor of your fellow passengers -- maybe the Red Baron screensaver is for you. Join the OpenGL party as the Baron sails through a simulated sky and over the (presumably French, definitely pixelated) countryside. The Baron himself looks more like a Fisher-Price person or a Weeble than a WW I flying ace, but who's complaining? (Actually, if they had an Easter egg to put Snoopy in the cockpit, that would be awesome.)The screensaver is a promotional item for the upcoming Red Baron movie from Warner Bros., which opens in Germany soon. With any luck the audiences will be over their dizzy spells by then.
Update: Developer Chris Kent is over his bandwidth limit, so you can get the saver via our alternate download here.
[via Macenstein]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Miranda Kali said 4:36PM on 3-19-2008
...but, but, Snoopy flew the Sopwith Camel! (against the Red Baron)
(okay...I'll shut up now)
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Codey H. said 4:56PM on 3-19-2008
Don't feel bad. When I saw Red Baron on the RSS I thought it would be Snoopy related too...
TMM said 5:01PM on 3-19-2008
I feel bad, because my country has to produce really, really bad movies like this all the time.
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Chris Kent said 5:03PM on 3-19-2008
OK, I know my Red Baron looks like a Weeble :-) but this was my second attempt at creating a 3D model in Cheetah3D. You don't want to know what the first attempt looked like!
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Michael Rose said 5:21PM on 3-19-2008
Chris, no slight intended -- he's a fine Red Baron. Now, about that Snoopy mode...
Illini87 said 5:21PM on 3-19-2008
I guess I must be the only one who saw the words "Red Baron" and "stomach" on RSS and assumed this had something to do with pizza.
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John C said 6:26PM on 3-19-2008
For those that installed and wondered, as I did, what the "FSAA" option does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing#Full-scene_anti-aliasing
Can you tell that I've been using a Mac long enough to have lost my gaming roots? *le sigh*
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Michael Rose said 6:29PM on 3-19-2008
I assumed it was German. "Feuer Sicherlich Achtung Alles" (fire safety, look out everyone!) or something like that.
:-)
Michael Rose said 6:29PM on 3-19-2008
Dagnabit. "Sicherheit."
macfan777 said 7:41PM on 3-19-2008
Dangit, the website has exceeded its bandwidth limit. Anyone know another link to this?
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Tony Jensen said 8:02PM on 3-19-2008
Yes. Does anyone have this mirrored?
Chris Kent, are you the author and reading this? May I mirror it FOR you?
jensen tony at gmail dot com
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Nate said 9:30PM on 3-19-2008
You call this hard on the stomach? You need to ride some more roller coasters.
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Greg Norman said 1:04PM on 3-20-2008
exe file only... yuk!
http://www.redbaron-themovie.com/index_en.html
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Chris Kent said 9:20PM on 3-20-2008
On the main movie website yes. But to their credit, how many movie companies do you know that have payed an independent Apple Mac developer to create a Mac only screensaver for them.
Chris Kent said 6:55AM on 3-26-2008
Even though my bandwidth quota has been increased, it will probably run out again in the next day or two. I've search the Apple website for a contact who I can write to and ask them to change the download URL. If Apple is listening why don't they make this easier! The screensaver can also be downloaded from:
http://www.billion7.com/downloads/RedBaron.zip
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