 | Dec 5 2009 |
FUTUREBOY Please please please update for Snow Leopard (10.6). This was my favorite screensaver on the Mac. I loved how the matrix code would switch to outline the current album art from iTunes. I'm on Snow Leopard and can't use it and the URL listed as a potential Snow Leopard (http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/matrixgl.html) is an older version (2.0). Please update for 10.6!!!
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 | Nov 24 2009 |
JAMUS I think the dev has an updated 10.6 compatible version here: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/matrixgl.html
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 | Dec 17 2009 |
KINGRAT uh..wrong screensaver bro
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| Oct 24 2009 |
KINGRAT for 5 years running, been using this screensaver on my powerbook g4...recently upgraded to the MBP with Snow Leopard and my heart broke when I couldn't get this to work...please developers....do something for us Snow Leopard guys, since it was the best EVER screensaver that still leaves all my windows-friends cursing at how cool it is....
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| Oct 24 2009 |
DANIEL BAZURTO Please! Snow Leopard Support! it is the best screen saver, and the only reason I miss Leopard
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| Oct 25 2009 |
PHAKEBRILL I couldn't agree more. This screensaver is THE BEST MATRIX SCREENSAVER AVAILABLE. I still have it at work since we haven't upgraded to snow leopard yet but I'm missing it sorely at home. PLEASE UPDATE IT!
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| Sep 18 2009 |
RADARNAV Couldn't get to load in 10.6. Tried it on an upgrade and on a clean install, and it will not load manually or automatically. However, worked great in 10.5 - it was (and will be again) my favorite screen saver.
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| Sep 10 2009 |
ERIC WOEHLER works excellently under SL. Better graphics and more controls have resulted in an excellent screen saver. Tried it and paid the fee within 5 minutes. Recommend to all to try and buy!!
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| Sep 11 2009 |
HAL0THANE Unfortunately, there are a few things MatrixGL still did better than 3D Matrix Code -- although I don't personally miss support for side-scrolling on network activity, that's something others might have used. MatrixGL also allowed embedding live iSight input in the stream -- not something I used, but was wicked cool. One thing that I personally find lacking though is the support for embedding images in the output. MatrixGL did a simply smashing job of displaying any image you throw at it in a way that it's completely visible when set to the narrowest glyphs and the densest lines. 3D Matrix Code, unfortunately, only hints at the image. MatrixGL allowed for monochrome image rendering, and, so far as I can tell, 3D Matrix Code doesn't. One thing it does have going for it, though, is that it incorporates a "Ken Burns" effect for moving an image through the code, something really awesome to behold. But I still miss MatrixGL.
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| Sep 6 2009 |
BRADMACPRO http://www.uselesscreations.com/mac/matrix/ works with Snow Leopard for the Matrix fan.
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| Sep 6 2009 |
MECHNO Hopefully someone locates the sources and tweaks it for Snow Leopard. I'll keep my fingers crossed
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| May 13 2009 |
JOHNVILLA99 This is probably one of the better Matrix code screen savers out there. It works good on a split monitor system. However, I've got two video cards that provide for four screens. The application crashes every time. I don't know if it's because I've got two cards or because the code didn't account for four screens. Either way, I can confirm it works on two monitors.
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 | Jan 4 2009 |
DNEM41 This is the real deal. You can have the classic 'Matrix' look or you can completely customize everything about it to show iTunes artwork or whatever you want.
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| Nov 13 2008 |
JAMUS Awesome screen saver. The custom tweaking you can do is suh-weeeeet.
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| Oct 30 2008 |
KONSCHI I searched long for a app like this, it's very nice to use it with the app wallsaver
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| Oct 29 2008 |
KINGRAT This has been and still is the best screensaver for the Mac. I have been using it for almost 4 years on my Powerbook G4, and even now, guys with new Macs are clamouring to find out where I got this screen saver. The registered version has a great feature :- Transparent (grey) glyphs that speeds up with background network activity...and the best part it does this in real time, that means the glyphs fly in the foreground no matter what's behind! so you can play a movie and when you mouse to screensaver, it will start! Way cool!
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| Oct 28 2008 |
XYPHER Free now? aces...
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| Oct 28 2008 |
JAZZYGUY Excellent Screensaver!!
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| Oct 28 2008 |
FLINX At last, new universal binaries version seeded by developer on subnova forum, macintel compatible. Works great on my MacBook Pro 2.4GHz. Download link as follow.
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| Oct 28 2008 |
FLINX Apparently posting URL in review is not autorized. Here is the link, add http in front. two.subnova.com/MatrixGL%202.2%20Beta%203.zip
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| Oct 12 2005 |
THEONE Great app. Nicely done. However, can not register to obtain the extra features... Appears the site we are pointed to is down?? Don't you want our money? Will you post any new information regarding where to go? Thanks in advance.
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| May 19 2005 |
VELOCITY90 To whom it may concern, These are freaking sceen savers not expensive, task oriented software that is supposed to make working on our computers better. If someone is upset because on The Red Pill screen saver they can make out a "blond, red head, brunette" while can't see anything in the MatrixGL, they might consider seeing a shrink..or get a life! Both of these screensavers had been running on Tiger for me. The Red Pill is great. And until recently, MatrixGL has been just as interesting. That being said, I am curious as to why MatrixGL stopped working the other day. It doesn't operate at all now. And that is a bit disappointing. And your page for buying a code won't load. | |
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| Aug 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS check to see if
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| Mar 25 2005 |
RADD Sadly, many people here seem to be reviewing the "unregistered version"... and comparing this to Red Pill. Red Pill is a free saver that does what the unregistered version of MatrixGL does very well, if not better for some people... no argument there. But the full version of MatrixGL must be seen to be believed. Honestly, I can hardly believe it is the same product... there are so many cool options in the full version that it makes my brain hurt... video, audio, picture rotation, transparent to desktop, log files as streams, options, options, options. While the unregistered version doesn't seem to stand out very much... The registered version is EASILY one of the best screensavers out there. In a word: Unbelievable.
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| Jan 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS one word: AMAZING
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| Jul 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS for those of you wondering if paying the $5 is worth it: YES, it is. it opens up a whole bunch of new options. while red pill has an interesting effect, MatrixGL has so many cool options you will wonder why you wasted your time. i feel bad that i waited so long to pay for it.
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| Jul 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This is one of the coolest screensavers I Know. by the way, you can see screenshots at http://fbtvc.dyndns.org/science/MatrixGL/Register/
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| Jul 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS If you want a free version of this try Red Pill look almost exactly the same
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| Jul 13 2004 |
PIXELLAUREATE Anyone have any screen captures of some of the registered features in use? I know it's only $5, but I would at least like to "see" what I'm paying for before I do... Thanks!
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| May 18 2004 |
ANONYMOUS There is no spoon! only the MatrixGL is real!!! This is an awsome screensaver that goes beyond the boring 'lets just show pictures' scroll effect. The best $5 I spent for my PB Ti! Great Job!!!
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| May 4 2004 |
APPLE CLERIC This is one of the best screen savers I've ever owned. I am very impressed at what it can do. I've tried "Red-pill", yeah it's free..However, green just get's OLD real fast. I was staring at my screen one day and was thinking, "Wouldn't it be awesome if I could change the colors?" Well, MatrixGL made my thoughts a reality. Thank you very much to the creators on developing this product and making it affordable! Unlike your normal shareware fee of $10, this product is only $5 dollars. I didn't even know all I was getting when I bought it. This saver offers much, much more features. I am really impressed! Excellent work.
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| Apr 23 2004 |
ZERODARK:30 5$? Sure!! Why? Time/expertise/ability - I really appreciate your effort to create an awesome mod that I can demo to my Clients, so many of whom would love to "trick out" their new Macs, but are busy with their businesses and encounter intimidation from "techs." Five bucks is a very cheap price for advertising the Mac platform and a feel-good for Mac owners in the small business environment. I'm glad to add 5$ to help the developer know his/her/their efforts are appreciated. Thanks!:-)
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| Apr 23 2004 |
ANONYMOUS cool screen saver! thanks!!!!
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| Apr 22 2004 |
JOE W. This program is better than Red Pill because it has more options, but it's a shame you have to pay for some of them. Really, the $5 isn't worth the extra options. Save your money.
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| Apr 20 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Nice, but I don't think a screen saver is even worth 5 bucks. Almost every screen saver on this site is free.
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| Apr 17 2004 |
ANONYMOUS An excellent improvement on an already good product. They added stream length control! Rock on guys.
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| Apr 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Cute but... 5 bucks???!!! Paying for some sFx made in Hollywood, no thanks. This must be free. Do you sell a background with a Picasso pic too? LOL
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| Apr 13 2004 |
JUSTME im my opinion this screensaver is way better looking then RedPill. i think red pill looks too chessy. To me MatrixGL has a more movie-authentic look compared to RedPill. I love this screensaver! its what ive been looking for! Sorry guys but RedPill just doesnt do it for me.
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| Apr 14 2004 |
OSCILLIK i'm sorry, but if you look at artwork posters for The Matrix (all three films) you will clearly see that Red Pill is more authentic to the code used in the film for a start, the numbers that are used in this screensaver seem to be a Sans font, whereas the numbers in the actual code aren't a Sans font
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| Apr 13 2004 |
STEVE FORTIN Awesome!!!
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| Apr 13 2004 |
JUNPEI This may not be as "realistic" an imitation of Matrix code, but I like it much better than the other Matrix screensavers out there, and doesn't use much CPU (with something like RedPill, the fan on my PB comes on after a while; I don't want the fan coming on from a screensaver!). Just the free version is great, I've been using it for a while. 2.0 has some good improvements (though I really don't care much, I just like the basics).
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| Apr 12 2004 |
PLBOGART Well, I suppose it's an improvement over the previous version but I've seen better. Unfortunately it's on a Windoze machine. http://www.uselesscreations.com/matrix/ is much better and has some very cool features. The screenshots don't do it justice but it would be great if someone could get permission to port the code to OS X as it also moves the viewpoint through the "code" as well as rotating it and changing perspective. If that's not enough, it also fades in and out images from all three movies using "code" to render the pics of Neo, Morpheus and quite a few more from the all the casts. There's more but you get the idea.
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| Apr 12 2004 |
DENIS DEFREYNE As said before, Red Pill is still quite a bit better than this one. And it's cheaper (although this screensaver is far from expensive too). It's not bad, could do better though.
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| Apr 12 2004 |
TOM DE SPIEGELAERE it's a good screensaver with lots of features no doubt..... BUT, it doesn't feel like the matrix, for me "red pill" is still the number one matrix screensaver.
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| Apr 12 2004 |
MANAO Works great on G5 ! This is a topmust screensaver. It woulb be great if you could had a textarea to display more personalized text and the frame rate info is quite obscure. But the display is outstading ! Good job !
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| Feb 19 2004 |
ANONYMOUS this screensaver is jerky on my system iBook 900MHz G3 640MB RAM even with FruitMenu and APE turned off it's jerky it's a decent enough looking screensaver though - no doubt about it but i find that the glyphs are all too familiar...they don't look like the glyphs used in the film. the only screensaver i've come across to have realistic glyphs is Red Pill i use that religiously
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| Feb 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS The most awesome screensaver. Ever. I have been looking for months and months for a good OS X screensaver. And it is the COOLEST THING EVER when I set it to be my desktop picture with Backlight. Never crashed.
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| Dec 5 2003 |
ANONYMOUS When I saw this, I said, "Pay for a screen saver? You must be joking!" Then I tried it, and a few minutes later I was paying for it. This really is quite cool. My only complaints are really more like wishes. When the option is enabled to include log file messages, the messages look a little different from the other text streams - sharper, and not changing color or text in any way. This is fine, but what I would really like is a way to send the screensaver arbitrary text to make into a stream - with a way to send multiple strings, so one could flash-and-change into the next. The idea of actually being able to see information in a display like this is just too cool to contemplate.
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| Dec 5 2003 |
DAGAZ Nice screensaver that looks great on the new iMac. Highly configurable. Recommended.
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| Dec 4 2003 |
ANONYMOUS MatrixGL is a great Matrix screensaver. The standard functionality is great - fast, reliable and looks gorgeous. The registered features are great fun too, the changing colours add a bit more depth to it, and its really fun to see your Apache log scroll up the screen :) As for complaints that the glyphs all go at one speed, this is only true (at least for me) on the slowest possible setting - at all other settings the speeds seem completely randomised.
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| Dec 4 2003 |
CAPSUL This screensaver has a few nice features, but the Matrix styling is missed here - all text strings fall at the same speed, kind of like watching the road go by in a hole on the floor of your rusted out car. And the font - sorry. The Japanese glyphs are rounded and the Roman characters are serifed. Feels, well, wrong. Changing colors is cool, but to me it seems even the slowest speed is a bit fast. Great update, but needs some art direction attention..
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| Dec 4 2003 |
JUNPEI Very good Matrix Screensaver... at least as good as RedPill. HOWEVER, it NEEDS an option to display on primary monitory only.
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| Jan 14 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Why not just get xBack? It'll do that for you.
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| Dec 4 2003 |
ANONYMOUS I thought I was sick of Matrix screensavers before I saw this one... This rocks!
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| Dec 4 2003 |
AGENT ORANJE The best Matrix-style screensaver got better with v1.1. My review of v1.0 had a few minor suggestions for improvements, which have all appeared in this version! The display is still smooth, beautifully rendered, and very true to the effect it is based off of. Excellent screensaver, and by far the best of the Matrix-style genre.
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| Dec 4 2003 |
MORPHEUS AWESOME!!! Better the red pill, better then any OS 9 Matrix screensaver ever was. Download it now!!! Install it, love it!
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| Dec 4 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Impressive...
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| Dec 2 2003 |
REVS Was about to say that this wasnt as good as red pill, then i turned it on - so smooth, very slick! DOWNLOAD IT!!!
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