To compile on MacOS X:
- Use the included XCode project. Requires XCode 2.2 and MacOS X 10.4.0
+ Use the included XCode project. Requires XCode 4 and MacOS X 10.5
or newer.
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+Changes since 5.21: * New hacks, `kaleidocycle', `quasicrystal',
+ `unknownpleasures' and `hexadrop'.
+ * Performance improvements for `interference'.
+ * Fixed possible crashes in `apple2', `maze', `pacman',
+ `polyominoes', `fireworkx', `engine'.
+ * Fix for `bumps' in 64 bit.
+ * Fixed preferences crash on old iOS 5 devices.
+ * Fixed "Shake to Randomize"; display name of saver.
+ * Fixed weirdness with "Frame Rate" sliders on iOS.
+ * Fixed rotation problems with `pacman', `decayscreen'.
+ * Better dragging in `fluidballs'.
+ * Ignore rotation in hacks that don't benefit from it.
+ * Ignore DEACTIVATE messages when locked, instead of
+ popping up the password dialog box.
+Changes since 5.20: * Changed default text source from Twitter to Wikipedia,
+ since Twitter now requires a login to get any feeds.
+ * New version of `fireworkx'.
+ * Minor fixes to `distort', `fontglide', `xmatrix'.
+ * New MacOS crash in `bsod'.
+ * New mode in `lcdscrub'.
+Changes since 5.19: * Support for iPhone 5 screen size.
+ * Fixed modifier key handing in Apple2.app and
+ Phosphor.app on MacOS.
+ * Various minor bug fixes.
+Changes since 5.18: * MacOS 10.8.0 compatibility.
+ * iOS performance improvements.
+Changes since 5.17: * iOS responds to shake gestures to randomize.
+ * iOS can load images from your Photo Library.
+ * iOS has clickable Wikipedia links in Settings panels.
+ * Made `pipes' be ridiculously less efficient, but spin.
+ * Added better mouse control to `rubik', `cube21',
+ `crackberg', and `julia'.
+ * Cosmetic improvements to `queens' and `endgame'.
+ * `sonar' can now ping local subnet on DHCP.
+ * Most savers now resize/rotate properly.
+ * Various fixes.
+Changes since 5.16: * More iOS tweaks.
+ * Fixed some compilation problems.
+ * Enlarged the texture image for `lament'.
+Changes since 5.15: * Ported to iPhone and iPad.
+ * XInput devices now also ignore small mouse motions.
+ * Loading images via RSS feeds is much improved.
+ * Various minor fixes.
+Changes since 5.14: * New hacks, `hilbert', `companioncube' and `tronbit'.
+ * Image-manipulating hacks can now load from RSS or Atom
+ feeds: `imageDirectory' may contain a URL.
+ * Updated `webcollage' for recent search engine changes.
+ * `phosphor' and `apple2' can now be run as standalone
+ terminal emulator applications on MacOS.
+ * `photopile' sped up.
+ * New molecule in `molecule'.
+ * "Upgraded" to XCode 4.0, which means that MacOS 10.4
+ PPC builds are impossible, and Intel is now required.
+ * Turned on LC_CTYPE on Linux; maybe Japanese password
+ entry works now?
+Changes since 5.13: * Fixed crash in Blank Only Mode when DPMS disabled.
+ * Added "Quick Power-off in Blank Only Mode" option.
+ * BSOD GLaDOS.
+Changes since 5.12: * Optionally enabled full-scene OpenGL antialiasing.
+ Set the resource `*multiSample' to true if doing so
+ doesn't kill performance with your video hardware.
+ * New version of `glhanoi'.
+ * Image-loading hacks that display the file name now also
+ display the sub-directory (xscreensaver-getimage now
+ returns relative paths under imageDirectory).
+ * Passwords that contain UTF-8 non-Latin1 chars are now
+ typeable.
+ * Numerous minor stability fixes.
+Changes since 5.11: * Big speed improvement on OSX for heavy XCopyArea
+ users (`xmatrix', `moire2', `phosphor', etc.)
+ * Plugged a bad OSX-only Pixmap leak.
+ * Kludged around the OSX pty bug that caused text to
+ be truncated in phosphor, starwars, apple2, etc.
+ * New molecule in `molecule'.
+ * `glhanoi' now supports an arbitrary number of poles.
+ * Turned on "New Login" button by default.
+ * Added support for XInput-style alternate input devices.
+Changes since 5.10: * New versions of `photopile', `strange'.
+ * Worked around MacOS 10.6 garbage collector bug that
+ caused the screen saver process to become enormous.
+ * Fixed flicker in `pipes', `cubestorm', and `noof'.
+ * Fixed EXIF rotation on MacOS 10.6.
+ * Fixed desktop-grabbing when screen locked on MacOS.
+ * Minor fixes to `circuit', `polyhedra', `tangram',
+ `gears', `pinion', `substrate', `xanalogtv'.
+ * Fixed some leaks in `xanalogtv' and `apple2'.
+ * Better seeding of the RNG.
+Changes since 5.09: * Fixed some crashes and color problems on MacOS 10.6.
+ * Retired `hypercube' and `hyperball', which are
+ redundant with `polytopes'.
+Changes since 5.08: * Ported to MacOS 10.6, including various 64-bit fixes.
+ * New hack, `rubikblocks'.
+ * Fixed another potential RANDR crash.
+ * Use correct proxy server on MacOS.
+ * `molecule' now correctly displays PDB 3.2 files.
+ * Updates to `mirrorblob', `glhanoi', and `sonar'.
+ * Rewritten version of `klein' hack.
+ * New hack, `surfaces', incorporating objects from old
+ `klein' hack, plus new ones.
+ * Merged `juggle' and `juggler3d' hacks.
+ * Fixed compilation under gcc 4.4.0 (strict aliasing).
+ * Fixed intermittent failure in `xscreensaver-command'.
+Changes since 5.07: * New hack, `photopile'.
+ * Rewrote `sonar' and `jigsaw' as OpenGL programs.
+ * Minor tweaks to `maze', `m6502', `hypnowheel', and
+ `timetunnel'.
+ * Savers that load images now obey EXIF rotation tags.
+ * Arrgh, more RANDR noise! Fixes this time for rotated
+ screens, and for systems where RANDR lies and says the
+ screen size is 0x0.
+ * When the password dialog has timed out or been
+ cancelled, don't pop it right back up a second time.
+ * Password timeouts/cancels don't count as
+ "failed logins".
+ * Retired some of the older, less interesting savers:
+ say goodbye to `bubbles', `critical', `flag', `forest',
+ `glforestfire', `lmorph', `laser', `lightning', `lisa',
+ `lissie', `rotor', `sphere', `spiral', `t3d', `vines',
+ `whirlygig', and `worm'.
+ * Merged `munch' and `mismunch'.
+ * Updated `webcollage' to use twitpic.com as well.
+Changes since 5.06: * Xinerama/RANDR tweaks for old-style multi-screen.
+ * Added bumpy skin and cel shading to `skytentacles'.
+ * `flipflop' can load images onto the tiles.
+ * Fixed the bouncing ball in `stairs'.
+ * Added the missing Utah Teapotahedron to `polyhedra'.
+ * `blitspin' works with color images on MacOS now.
+ * Added transparency to `stonerview'.
+ * Improved layout of the preferences dialogs: they
+ should all now be usable even on ridiculously tiny
+ laptop screens.
+ * MacOS preferences text fields now prevent you from
+ entering numbers that are out of range.
+ * Added "Reset to Defaults" button on X11.
+ * Added relevant Wikipedia links to many of the screen
+ saver descriptions.
+ * All hacks support the `-fps' option, not just GL ones.
+ * The `-fps' option now shows CPU load.
+Changes since 5.05: * Xinerama/RANDR fixes: this time for sure. It should
+ now work to add/remove monitors or resize screens at
+ any time.
+ * New hack, `skytentacles'.
+ * New version of `gleidescope'.
+ * Added the `-log' option to the xscreensaver daemon,
+ since a truly shocking number of Linux users seem to
+ have no idea how to redirect output to a file.
+ * Added `-duration' arg to most image-loading hacks,
+ so that they pick a new image every few minutes.
+ * Added an ATM crash to `bsod'.
+Changes since 5.04: * New hacks, `cubicgrid', `hypnowheel', and
+ `lcdscrub' (which isn't really a screen saver).
+ * Updates to `m6502' and `gears'.
+ * Fixed double-buffering problems in `cubestorm' and
+ `noof'.
+ * Better handling of horizontal scroll wheels.
+ * Attempt to work around latest Xinerama braindamage:
+ if the server reports overlapping screens, use the
+ largest non-overlapping rectangles available.
+ * Don't warning about receipt of bogus ClientMessages,
+ since Gnome's just never going to stop sending those.
+ * Worked around MacOS 10.5 perl bug that caused the
+ text-displaying hacks to fail on some systems.
+ * Hopefully fixed font-related System Preferences crashes
+ in MacOS savers.
+ * The recent PAM changes broke the "Caps Lock" warning
+ in the password dialog, the failed login warnings, and
+ syslogging. Fixed all that.
+Changes since 5.03: * Fixed a possible crash in the unlock dialog (more
+ fallout from the recent PAM changes...)
+ * New hacks, `moebiusgears', `abstractile', and
+ `lockward'.
+ * Rewrote `gears' to use better (involute) gear models,
+ and to be more random.
+ * Minor updates to `cwaves', `voronoi', `deco',
+ `glcells', `rd-bomb', `fireworkx' and `webcollage'.
+ * `pong' can now display the current time as the score.
+ * `xmatrix -mode pipe' works better.
+ * Minor tweaks for compilation on MacOS 10.5.0.
+Changes since 5.02: * New hacks, `cwaves', `glcells', `m6502', and `voronoi'.
+ * Minor fixes to `bsod'.
+ * Fixed possible crash with PAM USB-dongle auth.
+ * Updated `webcollage' to track recent Google Images
+ and Flickr changes.
+Changes since 5.01: * Reworked PAM code to support fingerprint readers, etc.
+ * Ported 'webcollage' to MacOS.
+ * Added MacOS 10.2 and 10.3 kernel panics to `bsod'.
+ * Fixed a Xinerama crash when changing the screen count.
+ * New blobbier `mirrorblob'.
+ * Minor updates to `lisa', `bsod', `ifs', `hypertorus',
+ `polytopes', `circuit', `endgame', `crackberg',
+ `flipflop', `flipscreen3d', `fliptext', and `carousel'.
+ * Enabled multi-threaded OpenGL on MacOS.
+Changes since 5.00: * Backed out recent locale-related changes, since they
+ broke far more things than they fixed.
+ * Fail gracefully with ridiculously small window sizes.
+ * `xflame' and `flag' ignore bitmap option on MacOS.
+ * `speedmine' prefs work on MacOS.
+ * Better explosions in `boxed'.
+ * More dynamic motion in `sproingies'.
+ * More options in `flipflop'.
+ * Minor updates to `topblock'.
+ * Various other minor fixes.
Changes since 4.24: * Ported to MacOS X! (10.4.0 or newer)
* API change: instead of providing a single screenhack()
function that does not return, screen savers using the
* Changes to the defaults and command-line options of
many hacks to make the .xml files more consistent.
* Reap zombies in `glslideshow' and `carousel'.
- * `sonar' works without setuid on OSX (dgram icmp).
+ * `sonar' works without setuid on MacOS (dgram icmp).
* `xmatrix -mode pipe' displays the text of a subprocess.
* `endgame' has higher resolution chess-piece models.
* `webcollage' takes a -directory option to get images
wimpier video cards now.
* Various portability tweaks.
Changes since 4.09: * New hacks, `cloudlife' and `klein'.
- * Added Apple ][+, HPUX, and OS/390 sessions to BSOD.
+ * Added Apple ][+, HPUX, and OS/390 sessions to `bsod'.
* Added some Matrix Reloaded text to `xmatrix'.
* Updates to `webcollage', `eruption', `jigglypuff',
`metaballs', and `endgame'.
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