XScreenSaver(1)XScreenSaver(1)NAMEbsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator
SYNOPSISbsod [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color]
[-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install]
[-visual visual] [-delay seconds]
DESCRIPTION
The bsod program is the finest in personal computer emula
tion.
bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation
of a different failure mode of an operating system. Sys
tems depicted include Microsoft's Windows 95 and Windows
NT, Commodore-Amiga's AmigaDOS 1.3, SPARC Linux, SCO UNIX,
the Apple Macintosh (both the MacsBug debugger and the
rarer "Sad Mac"), and the Atari ST.
OPTIONSbsod accepts the following options:
-window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the
default.
-root Draw on the root window.
-mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a
monochrome display.
-install
Install a private colormap for the window.
-visual visual
Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the
name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal
or hex) of a specific visual.
-delay delay
The delay between displaying one crash and
another.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides
the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MAN
AGER property.
X RESOURCES
Notable X resources supported include the following, which
control which hacks are displayed and which aren't.
doWindows, doNT, doAmiga, doMac, doMacsBug, doSCO,
doAtari, doBlitDamage, doSparcLinux, and doSSolaris. Each
of these is a Boolean resource, they all default to true,
except for doSparcLinux and doAtari, which are turned off
by default, because they're really not all that interest
ing looking unless you're a fan of those systems. There
aren't command-line options for these, so to change them,
you'll need to add entries to your .Xdefaults file, or use
the -xrm option. For example, to tell bsod not to show
the NT crash:
bsod-xrm '*doNT: false'
BUGS
Unlike the systems that the images are borrowed from, bsod
does not require a reboot after running.
bsod should also emulate more systems, but systems with
interesting crash graphics are not as common as one might
hope.
One I'd really like to see is a Unix system getting a ker
nel panic, rebooting, and running fsck(8).
SEE ALSOX(1), xscreensaver(1), http://www.microsoft.com/,
http://www.apple.com/, and http://www.sco.com/,
http://www.kernel.org/, and http://www.amiga.de/.
TRADEMARKS
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, and Microsoft
Windows NT are all registered trademarks of Microsoft Cor
poration. Apple Macintosh is a registered trademark of
Apple Computer. Amiga is a registered trademark of Amiga
International, Inc. Atari ST is probably a trademark,
too, but it's hard to tell who owns it. Linux is a regis
tered trademark of Linus Torvalds, but it isn't his fault.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1998 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use,
copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without
fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in
all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No
representations are made about the suitability of this
software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without
express or implied warranty. No animals were harmed dur
ing the testing of these simulations. Always mount a
scratch monkey.
AUTHOR
Concept cribbed from Stephen Martin <smartin@mks.com>.
This version is by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>.
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