SporView is a M$ Windoze screensaver module ( use it at your own risk! ). Copy SporView.scr into your screensaver directory ( C:\WINNT\ or C:\WINDOWS\ ) and configure it through the common screensaver configuration dialog. If you would like to run the programm in a 'windowed' mode, double click the SporView.exe file. In that case, SporView will run in a 800*600 window.
SporView is a simulation of three types of spores. Each Spore has the following life cyclus: birth eating reproduction death For reproduction the Spores need energy. To get energy the Spores eat each other. There are two different simulation modes: each Spore kind can eat the other Spore kinds ( r<->g<->b<->r ) each Spore kind can eat only one other kind of Spores ( r->g->b->r ) If a Spore has enough energy, it reproduces itself as often as possible. For the reproduction the Spores consume energy. If a Spore gets out of energy it will die. The intensity of the Spores represents the energy of it. On the bottom of the screen you see a population statistic. You can modify several simulation parameter: start Population: range from 3 to 200 max. Population: range from 200 to 50000 start spread: range from 5 to100 start cloud: range 5 to 100	Click for larger Image
The source may look a little bit confusing because the simulation-code is ported from the ATARI TC-Compiler. Jewe wrote the simulation code back in 1995. I used the M$ Saver example to build SporView. You need M$ Visual C++ 6.0 to compile the source. If you are looking for an example how to code screensaver modules under Windoze, don't use this source ;). Read the articles on CodeGuru about scrennsaver programming . I've coded a NEXTSTEP version of this screensaver module and some kind soul ported it to Mac OS X .
Download SporView binary ( ~17KB )	Download SporView source code ( ~46KB )
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