Galaxy is probably the smallest (1.7KB !!) program for Mac from 1985.  All it does is display moving white dots almost identical to the 1992 Windows 3.1 screensaver called "Starfield".  There is absolutely nothing else to it, no...

Remember Jurassic Park? Remember the, "Ah Ah Ah! You didn't say the magic word!" animation that plays when Samuel L. Jackson tries to undo Newman's hacking? It's that. It's just a small little program that plays that...

Psychedelia lets you choose a pattern and lets you move the mouse across the screen.  The pattern animates in B&W around your cursor's position. Psychedelia 1.4 comes with 13 animated patterns.  

Star Flight Graphics in TML Pascal By Mike Morton, InfoCom, Cambridge, MA Mike Morton wins $50 for the outstanding program of the month with this feature article. Congratulations Mike! Star Flight: Real-time, 3-D animation on the Mac In...

The ATIOpenGLDemos.pbproj Project Builder project includes a set of ATI SDK demos ported from the Rage 128, Radeon, and Radeon 8500 PC OpenGL demo suites. Apple’s Project Builder developmentenvironment is required to build these...

Aimless is an experiment made by Kevin Altis back in 1986 which gave birth to this demoscene-like toy.  Aimless is not a screen saver, because you have to manually launch the demo. It features 2 demo modes, one is lines and the other one is...

Brooke looks like a simple demo where a scanned female face blinks her eyes.  There doesn't seem to be anything else to it, no about screen, version info or anything at all.  

Что-то типа screen saver'а. Претупейшая программа. Something like a screen saver. Dumb program.  Command - increases the number of blades. Option - Decreases the number of blades. Arrows - northern...

An algorithmic stand-alone music application, it plays lush music and cycles mystic pictures of Circe's island, Aeaea (Malta), where Odysseus' sailors were enchanted. Can be used as an artistic-mystic background while you chill out.

An Amiga style demo. Contains rapid flashing colors.

Bouncing Black Square is an extremely simple 1.2KB app that only displays a big square that bounces on the edges of the screen.  Not sure if it was meant to be used as a screensaver or as a demo.  There is nothing else, no menu, no about...

A Game of Life simulator

Vanlandingham is the Macintosh's answer to the Amiga's "boing!" demo.  When you launch the app, it will take 20 to 40 seconds for the animation to start, depending on your hardware, since the program draws at high resolution...

Animates a pattern in a window.  You click anywhere and it closes.  That's it.  

Draw inverting rectangles on the screen, no way to quit but to reboot.   I found this on a random mac, named "Mondrian" dated 1986 with no resources to tell you more about it

Happy New Year is a 8.7KB window that displays a xmas greetings card with animated falling snow and a snowman.  You can read: "To the staff of MacNET and my fellow sysops at Mac Symposium & Health Areas, my wishes for the best new year...

Random Dots is a small public domain night sky simulation app.  All it does is light up random pixels and color cycling them.  It cannot be used as a screensaver either, that's why I put it under the demoscene.  

Rae animates smiley icons falling down and piling up at the bottom of your screen.  Could be used as a screensaver almost.  Click to exit Rae.