{"id":452,"date":"2011-03-20T05:26:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T04:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2011\/03\/loadsnake-aka-the-novell-netware-snake-screensaver-clone\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T05:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T04:26:34","slug":"loadsnake-aka-the-novell-netware-snake-screensaver-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2011\/03\/loadsnake-aka-the-novell-netware-snake-screensaver-clone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Loadsnake&#8221; AKA the Novell Netware snake screensaver clone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those that didn&#39;t have the pleasure to see the old <strong>Novell Netware snakes screensaver<\/strong>, I&#39;ll say here that it was the default Netware screensaver, in console\/text mode. It showed one snake for each CPU you had (99.9% of people had just 1 really). The cool thing is that the snakes became longer and longer as your server load increased. They also started going faster.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is one of those little time-wasting projects that usually go nowhere. I started working on a clone of this Netware screensaver in 2007. I remember I wanted to figure out how to write an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/xscreensaver\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">xscreensaver<\/a> &quot;hack&quot;<\/strong>, so I spent a weekend looking at the source code for all the existing hacks, and I picked <code>popsquares.c<\/code> as a base and started tearing it apart, injecting dubious amounts of crappy C code until it did what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 4 years. Yesterday, for some reason, I got back to it, cleaned up the code a bit, and implemented a &quot;fantastic&quot; new feature I&#39;ve always wanted: different snake colors for every different CPU, instead of all snakes being red. So I did, and the result is, well, see it for yourself:<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/cstrep\/blog\/xscreensaver_loadsnake3.png' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source code, but don&#39;t take inspiration from it, please&#8230; :) is up on github at <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/cosimo\/xscreensaver-loadsnake\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/github.com\/cosimo\/xscreensaver-loadsnake<\/a>. 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