Electropaint OS X for Snow Leopard

My favorite screensaver of all times is Electropaint. It has its origins in the IRIX OS. The word “mesmerize” was always one of the things I connected with this screensaver. Electropaint™ is a US Trademark of Tristram Visual, www.tristram.com. But since IRIX is gone for good, Electropaint was on the same route …

Fortunatly, there is a good clone of Electropaint for Mac OS X. An older release can be found in Lloyd’s Lounge. Some time later a universal binary of the screensaver for Intel Macs was made available by Alexander von Below.

Since the release of Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” all screensavers need to be 64 bit and use Garbage Collection. Apple posted a TN about the requirement and how to adjust the build settings. Otherwise Mac OS X will not allow the use of the older screensaver module.

So I took the source code and adjusted the build settings according to the TN. A few minutes later, a new build of ElectropaintOSX was ready. Another few minutes later the updated DMG file for easy download was assembled. As my contribution to the project was very small, I increased the version to 0.3.1 — indicating that this is the same codebase as in version 0.3 (Minor change: int and float were replaced by NSUInteger and CGFloat).

I do no longer have an 10.4 SDK on my computer, so I built ElectropaintOSX only for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. And I do no longer have any computer with Mac OS X 10.5, so I could not test the build on Leopard. But it should be OK. If not, try the built supplied by Alexander von Below.

So, here is the link to the DMG file that contains the screensaver and the source code. Happy screensaving.

ElectropaintOSX 0.3.1

Requires: Mac OS X 10.5 or better