What is Iconic Face - a NEW After Dark screensaver?

Iconic Face is a NEW After Dark screen saver module. It was written using the After Dark screensaver SDK Version 3.0. Compiled using Symantec (Think) C 7.0 on OS9.0-SheepShaver.   I'm running it using After Dark version 2.0.

It was written last Friday, 8 Nov, 2024 by me.  It is only the second piece of software I've written and released for the Macintosh.  The first was in 1984 - on the ORIGINAL macintosh.  So I must warn you:

THIS SOFTWARE IS AN ALPHA VERSION.  It doesn't even have a version number.  I am teaching myself Original Mac OS programming for a BIG project, of which Iconic Face is an integral part.  I cannot find anything in the compiler to indicate that it compiled for PPC OR 68K. All I know is it runs on my emulated Mac.

That means, apart from running it on my own Mac I have not tested it extensively. I shall start doing that immediately after I post this. But, I got the impression people wanted to see it.  If you try this software please let me know how it goes. I welcome testers and test reports.

All it does is display a face similar to the original Mac Face icon designed by Susan Kare.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Requires After Dark screensaver to be installed. Drop the Iconic Face file in the After Dark Files folder in your System Folder. Open the After Dark control panel and choose Iconic Face.

ICONIC FACE is just the beginning. I have much bigger plans to make a Classic Mac the face of a Home Assistant / HomeKit system (think Amazon Echo but heaps better). Stay tuned.

 

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Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver