1bsod(6x)                      XScreenSaver manual                     bsod(6x)
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NAME

6       bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator
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SYNOPSIS

9       bsod  [-display  host:display.screen]  [-foreground color] [-background
10       color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install]  [-visual  visual]  [-delay
11       seconds] [-fps]
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DESCRIPTION

14       The bsod program is the finest in personal computer emulation.
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16       bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation of a differ‐
17       ent failure mode of an operating system.  Systems depicted include Win‐
18       dows  3.1,  Windows  95,  Windows  NT, MS-DOS, AmigaDOS 1.3, Linux, SCO
19       UNIX, BSD UNIX, HPUX, Solaris, Tru64, VMS, HVX/GCOS6, IBM OS/390, OS/2,
20       MacOS  (MacsBug,  Bomb,  Sad Mac, and OSX), Atari ST, Apple ][+, VMware
21       and NCD X Terminals.
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OPTIONS

24       bsod accepts the following options:
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26       -window Draw on a newly-created window.  This is the default.
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28       -root   Draw on the root window.
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30       -mono   If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
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32       -install
33               Install a private colormap for the window.
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35       -visual visual
36               Specify which visual to use.  Legal values are the  name  of  a
37               visual  class,  or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
38               visual.
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40       -delay delay
41               The duration each crash-mode is displayed before selecting  an‐
42               other.
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44       -only which
45               Tell it to run only one mode, e.g., -only HPUX.
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47       -fps    Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
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ENVIRONMENT

50       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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52       XENVIRONMENT
53               to  get  the  name of a resource file that overrides the global
54               resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
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X RESOURCES

57       Notable X resources supported  include  the  following,  which  control
58       which  hacks are displayed and which aren't.  doWindows, doNT, doWin2K,
59       doWin10,  doRansomware,  doAmiga,  doMac,  doMac1,  doMacsBug,  doMacX,
60       doSCO,  doAtari,  doBSD, doLinux, doSparcLinux, doHPPALinux, doBlitDam‐
61       age, doSolaris, doHPUX, doApple2,  doOS390,  doTru64,  doVMS,  doMSDOS,
62       doOS2,  doHVX,  doVMware,  and  doATM.   Each of these is a Boolean re‐
63       source, they all default to true, except for  doAtari,  doBSD,  doSpar‐
64       cLinux,  and  doHPPALinux,  which  are  turned  off by default, because
65       they're really not all that interesting looking unless you're a fan  of
66       those systems.
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68       There  are  command-line options for all of these: e.g., -bsd, -no-bsd.
69       (Also note the -only option.)
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BUGS

72       Unlike the systems being simulated, bsod does not require a reboot  af‐
73       ter running.
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SEE ALSO

76       X(1),    xscreensaver(1),   http://www.microsoft.com/,   http://www.ap
77       ple.com/,     http://www.sco.com/,     http://www.kernel.org/,      and
78       http://www.amiga.de/.
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TRADEMARKS

81       Microsoft  Windows,  Microsoft Windows 95, and Microsoft Windows NT are
82       all registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.  Apple Macintosh is
83       a registered trademark of Apple Computer.  Amiga is a registered trade‐
84       mark of Amiga International, Inc.  Solaris is a trademark  of  Sun  Mi‐
85       crosystems.   HP-UX  is  a  trademark  of HP Hewlett Packard Group LLC.
86       Nvidia is a tradmark of Nvidia Corporation.  VMS is probably  a  trade‐
87       mark  of  Digital Equipment Corporation.  Atari ST is probably a trade‐
88       mark, too, but it's hard to tell who owns it.  SCO is probably still  a
89       trademark  of  somebody  these  days,  I  guess.  Linux is a registered
90       trademark of Linus Torvalds, but it isn't his fault. OS/2 is  a  regis‐
91       tered  trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. VMware
92       is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc.  Android is  a  trademark  of
93       Google LLC. GladOS is a trademark of Aperture Science Incorporated.
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96       Copyright © 1998-2018 by Jamie Zawinski.  Permission to use, copy, mod‐
97       ify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation  for  any
98       purpose  is  hereby  granted without fee, provided that the above copy‐
99       right notice appear in all copies and that both that  copyright  notice
100       and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.  No rep‐
101       resentations are made about the suitability of this  software  for  any
102       purpose.   It  is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
103       No animals were harmed during the testing of these simulations.  Always
104       mount a scratch monkey.
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AUTHOR

107       Concept cribbed from Stephen Martin <smartin@mks.com>.  This version is
108       by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, with contributions from many others.
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