Porting a screensaver....how to?

Hi everyone. I have what is probably a futile question....... I had an absolutely beautiful screensaver a few years back...obviously as you've probably guessed by the subject line the screensaver in question has been not functional since Tiger. I am wondering if it is possible to port it to Leopard. I have zero experience in this field so any help would would be appreciated. On the surface i would think it would be a relatively simple process to someone who knows what they are doing, but i alas do not. I've tried contact the developer repeatedly to no avail. The saver is titled 'Blurry screen', or 'Screenie' i think. here is the link: http://mac.rbytes.net/cat/mac/screensavers/blurryscreen/# It's possible it was a PPC only saver...... any help would be appreciated. thanks!

Hi,
Frank Caggiano wrote:
A good find. I'm usually hesitant to recommend things like this because editing system files can cause a lot of problems if you're not aware of what you are doing but if you can find the instructions then you can try them
I'm sure you're aware that any updates or upgrades to the OS will likely require you to redo the edits. Also when editing system files it is always a very good idea to have a recent working backup. Doing a clone of the root drive before making any changes would be the best way to go. This way if something does go wrong you can boot off the clone, clone back and be up again.
regards
to edit property list files normally is a common procedure. Either you do this in the GUI in a preferences pane if available or you can do this with the defaults command in a terminal or you can do this with the property list editor. Normally there is no problem to edit such a file and most of them you can trash if something unexpected happens and the system will create a new one with default settings. The only thing to keep in mind is the location where this plist file is stored. If you are working in /System/Library you should use both eyes and both brain hemispheres to avoid a fatal mistake, that's correct... ;-)
Bye Tom

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