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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Does anyone have cscreen.dmg?
The original website is now offline.
If someone has the dmg and could post it somewhere, I'd appreciate it. TjL |
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Site Admin
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Montreal
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Standard warning
It is an extremely bad idea to install software from strangers! (And people that you know only by their nickname on a forum such as this count as strangers) You have no idea what it really does and you are really inviting someone to send you a "trojan horse" or other such malware.
This is especially true of software that asks for your admin password.
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Prospect
Join Date: Dec 2005
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How would this be any different than any other software that I download from a website? I don't know them either.
This program is just a commandline tool and should not need either root or administrative rights. Maybe robg has a copy? The program was referred to in http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...60808051946975 |
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League Commissioner
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Old Europe
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I have a copy, dated October 29th 2004, but it still works, here's the md5 hash so you can compare with other versions you may get:
$ md5 cscreen MD5 (cscreen) = dc3620e75bf55c302322be13982f2222 |
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Prospect
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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no, seriously, where can cscreen be downloaded from?
Anybody know?
I've been looking for it all day for use with sofa control. Original dl site is down, nowhere to be found. Anybody care to share? |
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League Commissioner
Join Date: Sep 2003
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haynes objection is certainly valid, it's your call.
Anyway, cscreen is a handy tool and it's a pity that it somehow fell off the web, so here you go: |
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Prospect
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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I know it's not a good idea to take candy from strangers, but that's what backups are for.
Also, I think it's not so bad to have faith in your fellow humans as not always being out to screw you...paranoia is no way to live life. Thanks again. |
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Thanks.... and the md5 matches that which was posted before: $ md5 cscreen MD5 (cscreen) = dc3620e75bf55c302322be13982f2222 |
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Normally you get software from web sites that have established a reputation for trustworthiness. And such sites are usually used by many thousands of users, so any problems with a piece of software will likely be noticed before you get there. None of this is true if you download something from http://randomjoe.net or http://123.64.46.123
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That does happen sometimes, but there are also a whole lot of websites out there (including the one which the original cscreen was from) which I had never heard of before. |
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Unsurprisingly so, it was calculated over the very same cscreen I then zipped and posted. Trusting me not to spread nastyware and feedback from others in this thread confirming that it is indeed cscreen without any ill effects are about the only ways to assess the risk. But there still is some risk that everybody has to evaluate for himself and hayne is absolutely right to point that out. |
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HA! I hadn't noticed it was the same person. Silly me :-)
Absolutely true. |
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Triple-A Player
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Kent, United Kingdom
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Anyone have a copy of csscreen?
Hi,
I've recently set up my Mac Mini as a media centre box. However, it refuses to boot into the low-resolution that my traditional CRT widescreen TV looks best with, instead defaulting to 800x600 each reboot. A quick google suggests that there once was a unix utility called csscreen which provided command-line switching of resolutions. However, it seems to have disappeared off the face of the internet, with the original author leaving nothing on their site other than "I'm not interested, go away!" (paraphrased). Does anyone have a copy of this utility they could send me (assuming the licence allows) Thanks!
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Location: Montreal
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displaced:
I merged your thread into the existing thread about the same topic. See above for a copy of 'cscreen' and standard warnings.
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Triple-A Player
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Kent, United Kingdom
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excellent, thank you very much hayne! Apologies for not searching first (I thought I'd fire off a quick missive before heading up to bed... my fault!
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Here's code that does much the same thing...
I was also sorry to hear that cscreen had dropped off the Internet. In the hopes that future folks won't have to scrounge for bootleg copies, I've attached some sample code that does much the same as cscreen. This Macoshints page is the top Google hit on cscreen, so I thought it would be as good a place as any.
This code only sets resolution. Adding bit depth would be trivial for someone with interest. The command line parsing code is atrocious -- I'm not a programmer by day, so don't have the energy to spruce it up. I compiled this code in XCode 3. I assume it will work in earlier versions. The APIs I used date back to OS 10.2, so if appropriately compiled it should be backward compatible at least that far. If you're going to compile this yourself, make sure to include the ApplicationServices framework in the project file. Sample usage is: newscreen -h 1440 -v 900 Hope this helps someone. /* * main.c * newscreen * * Created by Jeffrey Osterman on 10/30/07. * Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Osterman. All rights reserved. * PROVIDED AS IS AND WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER */ #include <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h> void MyDisplaySwitchToMode (CGDirectDisplayID display, CFDictionaryRef mode); int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { int h; //horizontal resolution int v; //vertical resolution CFDictionaryRef switchMode; //mode to swich to CGDirectDisplayID mainDisplay; //ID of main display if (argc != 5) { printf("Expected 4 inputs, but only received %i\n", argc-1); return 0; } if (!strcmp(argv[1],"-h")) h=strtol(argv[2], NULL, 0); else if (!strcmp(argv[1],"-v")) v=strtol(argv[2], NULL, 0); else { printf("Error! Expected first argument to be -h or -v\n"); return 0; } if (!strcmp(argv[3],"-h")) h=strtol(argv[4], NULL, 0); else if (!strcmp(argv[3],"-v")) v=strtol(argv[4], NULL, 0); else { printf("Error! Expected third argument to be -h or -v"); return 0; } mainDisplay = CGMainDisplayID(); switchMode = CGDisplayBestModeForParameters(mainDisplay, 32, h, v, NULL); MyDisplaySwitchToMode (mainDisplay, switchMode); return 0; } void MyDisplaySwitchToMode (CGDirectDisplayID display, CFDictionaryRef mode) { CGDisplayConfigRef config; // 1 CGBeginDisplayConfiguration (&config); // 2 CGConfigureDisplayMode (config, display, mode); // 3 CGCompleteDisplayConfiguration (config, kCGConfigureForSession ); // 5 } |
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
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cscreen, 15Khz arcade monitor and mame for macintosh (any)
Has anyone tried this utility in conjunction with the following:
Mac with J-PAC card from Ultimarc using JAMMA harness Arcade monitor 15KHz The plan: Use an old Mac G4 with and ATI video card to run MAME and output to the arcade hardware. If I can get this to work I will document it on my Arcade site: www.priglmeier.com/game thanks for your input. greg |
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Prospect
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 5
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cscreen for Intel now available
Hi all,
I don't like to necro threads, but this seemed a relevant place to post this. I'm the original developer of cscreen. I've just released a copy of cscreen for Intel. You can grab a copy here: http://www.pyehouse.com/cscreen/ Unfortunately, I don't have a Retina display so I don't know how well it does or doesn't work on such devices, but it does seem to work alright on my machine. If you have any feedback, please let me know. Regards, Lynn Pye |
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randomjoe.net appears to be legit, and specializes in Android and iOS software. However, Joe doesn't appear to be active and the domain expires on Saturday. somedude.com will be happy to design your trojan-embedded illicit software site for you, someguy.com was SOCMOB and got taken out by somedude's homies. |
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League Commissioner
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Halifax, Canada
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I assume the OP knows that cscreen (the original) only runs on PowerMacs (i.e., it runs on my G5, but not my iMac).
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