FreeFlow

A Screen Saver module

FreeFlow is a screen saver module for Mac OS X which animates patterns with color map manipulation.

FreeFlow does not work with recent Mac configurations!

(May 28, 2001) v12: Faster! But see Release Notes...

(May 14, 2001) v11: Rarely visible (multiple threads clean up).

(April 23, 2001) v9: Added Keftales, corrected more bugs.

(April 18, 2001) v7: Correct a few bugs.

(April 18, 2001) v6: Ported to Mac OS X.

Information on this page includes:

• Credits
• License
• ReleaseNotes
• Download
• Installation
• Help
• Feedback

Credits

• Ph(i)Nk0
• Xila
• Mike Trent (Mac OS X Server 1.2 / FreeSpace multiple monitor support)
• Guy Moreillon (FreeFlow in a view, used to build the animated icon on this page.)
• This screen saver was inspired by FlowFazer from Grokware.

License

Sen:te makes this software available for anyone to use. Source code will be available shortly.

Release Notes

It looks like the v12 optimization do not work with all screens / video cards.

Download

The screen saver module can be downloaded from our FTP site as a disk image (.dmg). The Mac OS X Server/FreeSpace packages are GZIP compressed TAR files that can be decoded with gnutar and gzip.

Mac OS X binary (v11)		FreeFlow.dmg
Mac OS X binary (v12)		FreeFlow.dmg
Mac OS X Server 1.2/ FreeSpace binary		FreeFlow.FreeSpace.MacOSX.tar.gz
Mac OS X Server 1.2/ FreeSpace source code		FreeFlow.Sources.tar.gz

Installation

• On Mac OS X, copy the file FreeFlow.saver in your Library/Screen Savers directory.
• On Mac OS X Server 1.2, you'll need FreeSpace in order to use FreeFlow.

Help

• Add your own color palettes, as ".clr" ColorList files in [...]/Library/FreeFlow
• (v5) Password protection: you cannot see what you type, but it works.

Feedback

For any question, suggestion, or problem report, please send an e-mail to phink@sente.ch.