Retroscreensavers
3D Flamingos
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 75
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 75
Watch as a flock of elegant 3D flamingos sleep delicately balanced in a turquoise lagoon while other flamingos walk past at varied speeds and in varied directions or scoop up and sieve the lagoons waters in a search of food. Asian string music plays softly to soothe the spirit. Want a restful night time scene? Just set the time of day to night time and a dark shadowy blue hue is cast over lagoon and flamingos. Prefer a dusky sunset scene? The default dusk setting produces a deep reddish hue.
After Dark
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.2/5
Total votes: 74
Average user rating: 2.2/5
Total votes: 74
After Dark™ is the best-selling screen saver that has delighted Macintosh users worldwide since 1989, best known for the famous Flying Toasters. "After Dark X + Fish" adds the popular "Fish", "Mowing Man" and "Mandelbrot" modules to the existing "Space Toasters", "Starry Night" and other user favorites.
More than just a screensaver, "After Dark X + Fish" offers hours of entertainment for all Macintosh users.
Ansel Adams
Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 1.7/5
Total votes: 67
Average user rating: 1.7/5
Total votes: 67
Ansel Adams Photographs: In this screen saver are the photographs reflecting the beauty of America's National Parks, all seen through the lens of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams.
Astral Blossom
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 69
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 69
Your Macintosh display is a thing of beauty, capable of generating millions of subtle shades. Let Astral Blossom™ transform it into a work of art, with uniquely dazzling effects. Never the same twice, Astral Blossom dynamically traverses the vast color space of your display, taking different paths every time as it generates exhilarating geometric paintings of color and light unlike any other screen saver or visualizer.
BSOD
Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 87
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 87
Don't you ever wish that you could get your Mac to crash like a Windows machine? We don't either. On the other hand, we decided that we really wanted a screensaver that made it look like our Mac had crashed while running Windows. Why? We're twisted like that. So we made one.
This screensaver will not crash your Mac. It will not give you Windows. It will not hurt your cat, dog, family member, or other pet. It will, however, display one of over 200 highly realistic BSODs -- complete with real stop codes and messages and dynamically-generated memory addresses. Basically, it will look just like a real, not-so-live Windows crash -- enough so that you could actually look up what the error codes mean in Microsoft's documentation. (But why would you?)
This screensaver will not crash your Mac. It will not give you Windows. It will not hurt your cat, dog, family member, or other pet. It will, however, display one of over 200 highly realistic BSODs -- complete with real stop codes and messages and dynamically-generated memory addresses. Basically, it will look just like a real, not-so-live Windows crash -- enough so that you could actually look up what the error codes mean in Microsoft's documentation. (But why would you?)
Black Screen
Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 2.1/5
Total votes: 63
Average user rating: 2.1/5
Total votes: 63
The most effective screen saver you've ever seen. Guess what: it just makes the screen turn black! Great if you don't want your screen to burn in neither waste precious processor cycles with some fancy animation which distracts you from your work.
Campfirez
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 77
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 77
Bring the relaxing ambience of a crackling fire to your Mac! Campfirez is a realtime fire simulator, complete with authentic sound effects. No need to hunt for firewood, so put away those matches. Start a fire on your screen anytime, without getting burned! Campfirez employs real-time particle animation to create convincing fire simulations. You can set the shape, color, and location in space. The registered version is fully customizable; allowing control of the spread, speed, size, and decay of up to four separate fire emitters. So turn off the lights, pull up a camp chair, and crack open a cold one. Just try not to drop roasted marshmallow goo on your keyboard.
Chemical Burn
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 58
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 58
ChemicalBurn is a screensaver that simulates a transportation network. Packages are generated with a destination, and attempt to find the fastest way there. Frequently used routes get faster, making them more popular. The result is a beautiful self-organizing network colorfully displayed on your screen.
Nodes are randomly generated on the screen. Initially, all connections are equally slow. Packages are generated randomly as the screensaver runs. Each package is generated at a random node, and has another random node set as its destination.
As packages flow through a connection, the connection is strengthened and becomes faster. A disused connection gradually weakens. This is analogous to real-life computer and transportation networks, where the connections with the most traffic get more infrastructure investment and become even faster.
The result is a self-organizing network with complex structure, as popular routes are reinforced with even more traffic, and hubs, rings, and other structures form spontaneously from the simple rules.
If enabled, nodes will be created and destroyed at random during the simulation. When a node is destroyed, it is not immediately removed from the network. Instead the node and its connections turns red, packages are forbidden from using that node in their routes and packages with the destroyed node as their destination are re-routed elsewhere. Once all packages are clear of the destroyed node, it is removed from the screen.
Nodes are randomly generated on the screen. Initially, all connections are equally slow. Packages are generated randomly as the screensaver runs. Each package is generated at a random node, and has another random node set as its destination.
As packages flow through a connection, the connection is strengthened and becomes faster. A disused connection gradually weakens. This is analogous to real-life computer and transportation networks, where the connections with the most traffic get more infrastructure investment and become even faster.
The result is a self-organizing network with complex structure, as popular routes are reinforced with even more traffic, and hubs, rings, and other structures form spontaneously from the simple rules.
If enabled, nodes will be created and destroyed at random during the simulation. When a node is destroyed, it is not immediately removed from the network. Instead the node and its connections turns red, packages are forbidden from using that node in their routes and packages with the destroyed node as their destination are re-routed elsewhere. Once all packages are clear of the destroyed node, it is removed from the screen.
Clocksaver
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 133
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 133
ClockSaver is a port of the Screensaver-module "KClock" found in the KDE Desktop Environment to Mac OS X. It shows a simple but elegant analog clock where you can customize the colors for the clock hands, the color for the clock scale, whether a second hand should be visible, and the size of the displayed clock.
Computer Name
Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 60
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 60
Your computer name floats around a metallic apple.
FaceTheCrowd
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 59
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 59
A simple serene screen saver module for OS X. Easy installation. More blue for you.
Flocks
Our rating: 2/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 60
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 60
This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.
Foam
Our rating: 2/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 71
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 71
Originally designed by Christopher Tate, as a classic MacOS application called bubbles. Circles make tangents with smaller circles until every usable space is filled (reminds me of Silicon Valley).
Fracture
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 50
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 50
Fracture is a screensaver for OS X that creates a wide variety of fractal images. It can render the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Self-Squared Dragons, and Attraction Basin fractals generated using Newton's Method, Halley's Method, and two other root-finding algorithms. It can make images using advanced fractal imaging techniques like orbit traps, periodicity analysis, and binary decomposition, and it can use several different parameterizations for even greater image variety.
Harusbitcation
Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 1.6/5
Total votes: 57
Average user rating: 1.6/5
Total votes: 57
Haruspix's humane screen saver with source code. Suitable for vegetarians.
LED Love
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 76
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 76
On the stockmarket of society, watch what love and apathy are trading for.
Loops Aqua
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 73
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 73
You like the look of MacOS X? Then this is a perfect addition. We ask ourselves: Why isn't this part of the system ... Flubber!
Loops Fireplace
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 78
Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 78
Warm and cosy, this excellent screensaver brings you a real fireplace without running out of wood. Crackles and pops like the real thing. A must-have!
MacHouse Quotes
Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 77
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 77
MacHouse Quotes is a screen saver that displays over 50 random, uplifting quotes on your screen. I made the screen saver originally just for me. The screen saver contains some of my most-loved quotes. When I was sitting around with my friends one night brain storming how to raise money for graduate school, they suggested I sell my screen saver. I offer a demo version for free and a full version for only $7. The demo version contains 10 quotes, the full version has FIVE times as many quotes!
Matrix Reloaded GL
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 48
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 48
This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows/Linux OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Alex Zolotov.
Monet's Water Lilies
Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 66
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 66
Relax and enjoy Monet's Water Lilies. In the later years of Monet's life he settled down at Giverny and painted his garden and the pond filled with water lilies. In this screen saver you can enjoy many of his famous paintings.
Neko
Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 1.4/5
Total votes: 60
Average user rating: 1.4/5
Total votes: 60
Neko.saver is a screensaver module for MacOS X. It shows the cats playing on the screen while the screensaver is running. It is a MacOS X port and screensaver version of 'xneko' application originally created for the X-Window system, and is based on Michael Trent's Rhapsody port for FreeSpace module.
Osirus
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 1.5/5
Total votes: 66
Average user rating: 1.5/5
Total votes: 66
The first in a series of screen savers brought to you by töshöklabs. Osirus generates hypnotic circular patterns, which randomly forms various disc shaped imagery. Controls are provided for different color schemes, the speed, transparency, refresh rate, line thickness, motion, fade, and full screen options.
Ouroboros
Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 1.2/5
Total votes: 58
Average user rating: 1.2/5
Total votes: 58
This is a Mac OS X screen saver featuring a 360 degree rotating Ouroboros.
Plasma Tunnel
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 4.0/5
Total votes: 76
Average user rating: 4.0/5
Total votes: 76
The effect you are about to see was first meant to be the last part of our upcoming demo, but we decided to pull it apart, since it doesn't match the style of the demo anymore. Beside of this it was the result of a boring, rainy sunday here in germany, and can not be considered as something special... but anyways hopefully more special than this ported savers floating around [something to kick your peecee pals asses].
PongSaver
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 56
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 56
PongSaver is an OS X screensaver/clock which keeps time by using the score of a game of Pong. The left side wins once an hour, and the right side wins once a minute.
Pyrotheque
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 60
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 60
Reminisce with me about being a Mac user in the ’80s. Saving the CRT on your precious Plus or trusty IIcx from dreaded burn-in was serious business. Maybe you opted for the simple blank screen; perhaps animated line art was more your style. For me, it was all about the fireworks. Silent, hypnotic, dependable fireworks. It seemed to be what the Mac did on its days off; tiny pixellated explosions were its hobby.
Rastafied
Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 54
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 54
Another OpenGL based screensaver featuring an effect of the demo Super SIDekick.
Security
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 82
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 82
What is this shape, and why has it been locked away? It sure looks angry. (responds to audio)
Skyrocket
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 4.6/5
Total votes: 101
Average user rating: 4.6/5
Total votes: 101
There's fireworks screen savers, and then there's Skyrocket. Technology has come a long way since the days of the Pyro! screen saver, and Skyrocket shows how far we've come by rendering fireworks in 3D. Oh, and it also has sound effects to go with the fireworks. And unlike some other fireworks screen savers, this one won't change your screen's resolution.
Snowsaver
Our rating: 2/5
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 50
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 50
This is a Cocoa OpenGL screensaver written in Objective C. It's modeled on the pretty falling snowflakes animation that Apple have been running on the iMac in the window of the local Apple store. Tweakable parameters include snowflake size, depth fog, number of snowflakes, depth of scene, and background color. Defaults should make it look similar to the Apple display.
StarWarsScroll
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 47
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 47
From a galaxy far, far away, Killer Robots Games is proud to present StarWarsScroll. StarWarsScroll is a screen saver which accurately recreates the opening titles of each of the six Star Wars movies. Can't find your Star Wars DVDs? Relive the experience through StarWarsScroll.
Stormz
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 60
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 60
April showers, bring May flowers! Ever wanted to control the weather? Wished for a calming spring rain, a cold winter snow, or a spectacular lightning storm? Now you can be your own deity and conjure up your Mac's weather at will! Best of all, you won't get cold, wet, or struck by a stray bolt. These storms are contained safely within your Macintosh screen!
Street Crossing
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 59
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 59
New York City, Times Square, on May 9th 2002. Cars passing, a truck turning right. Red means Stop. Green means Go. It's raining. People are walking around with umbrellas. An image of the American metropolis as can be seen every day at this street corner. This perfectly ordinary image contrasts with the stunning city of NYC as we think we know it. Edited in slow motion, this looping movie opens our eyes to the aesthetics and poetry of banality, taking thus the power of alleviating us.
Superman Returns
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 63
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 63
Watch Superman fly around a real-time 3D city! Images from Superman Returns are displayed on the billboards around the city. You can select from different Superman related theme tunes to play in the background.
XScreenSaver
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 85
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 85
XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System
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