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Tuesday 3 November 2009 - Filed under Uncategorized

If your childhood memories include an SGI Indy set up underneath the coat rack downstairs, maybe you’ll get the same time-traveling wonder out of the Electropaint Screensaver. I found a Universal Build of ElectropaintOSX at vonBelow.com, and it’s just how I remembered. There’s a picture there, but you have to see it in motion. It’s like a deck of cards circling a bug-zapper. It’s beautiful.

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2009-11-03  »  mike

Talkback x 2

  1. Buzz Andersen
    3 November 2009 @ 11:05 pm

    My dad worked for NCAR, a big SGI customer back in the day, so you’re not far off. My dad got them to donate an O2 as a web server for my college newspaper when I was the web editor.

  2. Nicholas Riley
    4 November 2009 @ 12:49 pm

    Thanks! We had Indys at my undergrad school (screenshot of one of my sessions from 13 years ago, aiee: http://sabi.net/ex-sites/brandeis-staff/beryl-screenshot.jpg). I vaguely recall an issue where you couldn’t use OpenGL screensavers with the screen locker, so I never got to see as much of Electropaint as I wanted.

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