jwz@birch (Jamie Zawinski) (02/19/90)
A while back I posted asking if anyone knew where I could find a "melting clock" program that I saw long ago. Well, I got quite a few responses. The program is called "Dali Clock" and was written by Steve Capps; there is a version of it on sumex-aim in the file info-mac/app/dali-clock.hqx. This version, however, won't run on a Mac Plus. But Ephraim Vishniac (ephraim@think.com) has hacked on it and sent me a version that runs on all Macs. If you want a copy of this, I'd be happy to email it to you. (Now maybe these 20k binhex files will stop showing up in my mailbox! :-)) Thanks for all the replies... -- Jamie
ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) (02/27/90)
In article <22238@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jwz@birch (Jamie Zawinski) writes: >A while back I posted asking if anyone knew where I could find a "melting >clock" program that I saw long ago. Well, I got quite a few responses. The >program is called "Dali Clock" and was written by Steve Capps; there is a >version of it on sumex-aim in the file info-mac/app/dali-clock.hqx. This >version, however, won't run on a Mac Plus. But Ephraim Vishniac >(ephraim@think.com) has hacked on it and sent me a version that runs on all >Macs. It doesn't actually run on *all* Macs, though it did at the time I worked on it, before the Mac II rollout. I believe it works on all Macs in monochrome (1 bit per pixel) mode, though it does weird stuff to your screen under Multifinder. On the bright side, full source code is included, so anybody with a little time on his hands could fix it up. The basic problem is that it writes directly to the screen, a very nasty habit. I'm currently dreaming of building it into a screen-saver, a project made feasible (I hope) by the advent of After Dark. Hang on while I call MacConnection... -- Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142 One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.