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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:53:45 -0500
From:      Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990821105211.00ac6270@nfs.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990821102623.A20997@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908201930390.46719-100000@freja.webgiro.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908201930390.46719-100000@freja.webgiro.com>

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At 10:26 AM 8/21/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > Both versions are available at:
> >
> >       http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz
> >       http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz
>FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix' implementations out there.
>One is part of xscreensaver, and is quite nice -- it's even better if you
>halve the size of the image it's using first.  This has the advantage that
>the characters actually look like the ones in the film (reversed numbers
>and Japanese katana (sp?) characters).  That one's (obviously) X only.
>
>The other is 'cmatrix'.  A web search should turn it up.  As the name
>implies, this is a console version.

For those of you using Windows or MacOs....

http://www.whatisthematrix.com/cmp/screensaver_index.html

That's the 'official' screen saver. (The Windows version uses some kind of 
runtime ShockWave and eats nearly 100% cpu, but it looks authentic)

Kevin



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