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Stefano wrote me directly in reply to my question:

>BackSpace is a screensaver and background image app that accepts  
>`modules' (there's a raft of them on the archives).  BackSpace itself is  
>NOT on the archives because it was developed by a NeXT employee;  
>commercial developers got upset that a NeXT employee was releasing free  
>an app that did the same thing they were trying to charge money for.  So  
>the app was removed from the archives.  I thought it was going to be an  
>example (in NeXTDevelopers/Demos or /Examples) in 3.0, but I'm still  
>using 2.1 so I can't verify that (waiting for my CD-ROM drive).  Anyway,  
>if its not in NeXTDevelopers somewhere, and you'd like a copy, I can  
>NeXTMail it to you.
>--
>-
>Stefano Pagiola
>Food Research Institute, Stanford University
>spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
>spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)

Yep. It's all in NS3.0 /NeXTDevelopers/Examples/AppKit/BackSpace. Big  
README there too. I compiled it and it works great. Lots of examples came  
with it. NeatO! As the author Samuel G. Streeper says "Sometimes it's kind  
of fun to have your computer zoom through space while you work..."

He's right.


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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu