Snow saver for new graphic display

[Nick Walker]

Hi all

Does anyone know if there is a version of the snow saver that will work on
the new graphics display?

Thanks ... nick

[kdf]

Quoting Nick Walker <nickwalker911 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>:

> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know if there is a version of the snow saver that will work on
> the new graphics display?
>
>
none yet. I had figured I'd try, but I have had zero time to tackle it.
-kdf

[Rickarddahlstrand]

Quoting Nick Walker <nickwalker911 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>:

> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know if there is a version of the snow saver that will work on
> the new graphics display?
>
>
none yet. I had figured I'd try, but I have had zero time to tackle it.
-kdf

I would kill for this plugin on my new SB2!! Any news on this?

[kdf]

On 12-Sep-05, at 2:05 PM, Rickarddahlstrand wrote:
>>
>
> I would kill for this plugin on my new SB2!! Any news on this?
>
I think the status is pretty much exactly the same.
I believe it has been removed from the builds and I know of no third
party that is currently working on converting it
-k

[max.spicer]

What's the snow saver?

Max

Hi all

Does anyone know if there is a version of the snow saver that will work on
the new graphics display?

Thanks ... nick

[kdf]

Quoting "max.spicer" <max.spicer.1vaozz (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com>:

>
> What's the snow saver?

When screensavers were first added to the slimserver featureset (before
SqueezeBoxG was released), Felix posted a Snow screensaver that used custom
characters to show falling 'snowflakes' on the display. It was fantastic, and
eventually included in the server builds in order to demo the screensaver
feature. When the display went graphic, the server no longer supported the
custom characters in the same way. The snow screensaver was rendered useless
for all new devices and is no longer included in the builds. It needs a fairly
extensive rewrite, and while the server is closer to supporting custom symbols,
it probably does need more work to get there. As you can imagine, rendering
falling snow on the screen tends to get lost in all the other work.

-k

[max.spicer]

Really? I'd have thought that SlimDevices would make it their top priority! ;-)

Max

As you can imagine, rendering
falling snow on the screen tends to get lost in all the other work.

[kdf]

On 14-Sep-05, at 4:53 AM, max.spicer wrote:

>
> Really? I'd have thought that SlimDevices would make it their top
> priority! ;-)
>
but getting the snowflakes to display in cyrillic is a bugger
-k

[fcm4711]

Hi all

Well, Phil Barrett was the creator of the Snow saver.
I did quite some screensavers (TinyLittlePacMan, WorldClock, LineX, and BinaryClock, but Snow is not my Baby.
And yes, it was fantastic - I remember having it running all winter long.

Felix

[Craig, James (IT)]

Is there any documentation on how to manipulate the SB2 display
anywhere?
The only plugin that seems to do anything with it is SlimTris and I
can't quite work out what's going on.


James
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