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24 alternatives to Hal 9000 Screensaver
The best screensaver for 2001 Space Odyssey fans
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hal 9000 Screensaver launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A fictional computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey
2014 · jackylee0424.github.io · its alternatives →
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The world's first voice-activated HAL 9000 replica
2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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So, I was about 11 years old and just got my first Mac, a IIsi, and of course everyone had AfterDark, but there was this other screensaver program called "Dark Side of the Mac". And within it was, I think now, the most beautiful screensaver ever written. It was called Kaos. Kaos would take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to slowly iterate on a single image, starting with a few colored dots and growing into webs within webs of algorithmic beauty. I'm not sure how Tom Dowdy actually wrote the program. What I've done here is to try to reverse engineer how it might have worked, but to animate it…
2025 · thestrikeagency.com · its alternatives →
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Display websites through your screensaver
2015 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Never miss important information again.
2015 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your screen into an inspiring mood board
2015 · getfleck.com · its alternatives →
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"After Dark" by Berkeley Systems was a collection of screensavers for Macintosh and Windows from early 90s; "Flying Toasters" is probably the most famous and loved among them. Using my very limited knowledge of C and X11 programming, I recreated it as a XScreensaver module for Linux. Hope you find it useful or at least amusing!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Mac screensaver for counting down to a date
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle. It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs. Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A hard sci-fi space exploration game
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Astroneer▲98A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration
2015 · astroneer.space · its alternatives →
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Magnitude▲89A screensaver for Mac that delivers inspirational quotes
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PixelSpace▲68A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
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Screensaver with your own videos!
2016 · its alternatives →
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