Now we all know the Mac is a really nice computer, but sometimes those not “in the know” criticize it because it doesn’t have true this-or-that or a nifty Turbo switch or a price tag as low as they can find at Kurt’s Klones (some assembly required). It is necessary to communicate with these critics in a language they understand. Enter Das Blinken Lights.
Truly great computers, some reason, aren’t the kind that sit idle on desks, but the kind that crack secret codes on the silver screen or pilot the starship Enterprise. In short, the better the computer, the more blinking lights it has.
Das Blinken Lights is a small application that puts up a window containing, yep, a bunch of blinking lights. You can change the size of the window by clicking in its lower right-hand corner (the grow region) and can move it by clicking and dragging any other part of the window.
Das Blinken Lights is very friendly as a background process and is, I think, unique in the way it uses the Mac’s processor. I have designed Das Blinken Lights so that the amount of processing power it hogs is in proportion to the number of lights in its display (default is 25 X 16). That is, the smaller you make the display, the less processing power it uses; the larger you make the display, the more processing power it uses. This pseudo-priority will most likely be altered in future versions of Das Blinken Lights, but I’d like to see a few “real” programs offer some similar kind of user-controlled priority (like Word, for instance, which can use up 79% of the processor even while it’s hidden in the background).
Doc O’Leary
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Das_Blinken_Lights.sit
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Mini vMac
