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  • Matrix Screen saver released

    From Richard Ashbery@21:1/5 to Coleman on Thu Jun 17 12:47:46 2021
    In article <ap.e9b738593d.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>, Richard
    Coleman <coleman@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
    I came across a YouTube video on writing a Matrix screensaver and
    so have converted it to RISC OS.

    You can download it from http://coleman.orpheusweb.co.uk/downloads/matrix_v100.zip

    It's written in BASIC and makes use of ZapRedraw 0.40.

    I've not been able to find any previous Matrix screensaver on RISC
    OS, so we can now enjoy the Matrix rain whilst we wait for the next
    film to come out.

    Enjoy!

    Excellent - great conversion!

    Richard

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  • From Richard Darby (news)@21:1/5 to Richard Ashbery on Fri Jun 18 11:38:28 2021
    In article <593dfaa880basura@invalid.addr.uk>,
    Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> wrote:
    In article <ap.e9b738593d.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>, Richard
    Coleman <coleman@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
    I came across a YouTube video on writing a Matrix screensaver and
    so have converted it to RISC OS.

    You can download it from http://coleman.orpheusweb.co.uk/downloads/matrix_v100.zip

    It's written in BASIC and makes use of ZapRedraw 0.40.

    I've not been able to find any previous Matrix screensaver on RISC
    OS, so we can now enjoy the Matrix rain whilst we wait for the next
    film to come out.

    Enjoy!

    Excellent - great conversion!


    I'm not a great fan of screen savers, but this works very well.

    I have one suggestion. It needs to be saved in the screen savers
    directory. RC gives this location as (BootResources:Configure.ScrSavers)
    which is not in !Boot.Resources.Configure as a quick reading might
    suggest. You need to open a Task Window and prefix the path variable BootResources: with Filer_OpenDir , this will open the correct directory.

    Or better still, if RC included an Obey file containing the line:
    Filer_OpenDir BootResources:Configure.ScrSavers
    in the zip file, then a quick double click on this file would open the
    required directory making installation dead simple.

    Richard Darby.

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  • From Richard Ashbery@21:1/5 to news@rjdarby.co.uk on Fri Jun 18 16:52:47 2021
    In article <593e782668news@rjdarby.co.uk>, Richard Darby (news) <news@rjdarby.co.uk> wrote:
    In article <593dfaa880basura@invalid.addr.uk>, Richard Ashbery
    <basura@invalid.addr.uk> wrote:
    In article <ap.e9b738593d.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>,
    Richard Coleman <coleman@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:

    [snip]

    I'm not a great fan of screen savers, but this works very well.

    I have one suggestion. It needs to be saved in the screen savers
    directory. RC gives this location as
    (BootResources:Configure.ScrSavers) which is not in
    !Boot.Resources.Configure as a quick reading might suggest. You
    need to open a Task Window and prefix the path variable
    BootResources: with Filer_OpenDir , this will open the correct
    directory.

    Or better still, if RC included an Obey file containing the line: Filer_OpenDir BootResources:Configure.ScrSavers in the zip file,
    then a quick double click on this file would open the required
    directory making installation dead simple.

    Excellent tip.

    One minor point: If in Boot > Configuration > Screen you have Random
    option set then Matrix requires the # character next to it to be
    removed in the Settings... text box. If not it'll never run.

    Richard

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