bsod

Simulates Blue Screens of Death from several systems, primarily Micro$oftWindow$. It's made in a way that eases adding new BSODs.

As an executable, has optional flag to sleep before BSODing so you can surprise your friends!

As a library, you can integrate a BSOD on any SDL surface.

Usage

Executable

$ bsod
$ bsod --wait 3.1415       # waits seconds before BSODing
$ bsod --style windowsxp   # explicitly selects BSOD style
$ bsod --list              # show supported systems

For more see bsod --help.

Library

require 'bsod'
# after initializing sdl properly
screen = SDL::Screen.get
bsod = BSOD::WindowsXP.new
bsod.draw(screen, screen.w, screen.h)
BSOD::wait_for_sdl_key # defaults to F8

Install

$ gem install bsod

Credits

Hi, I'm Alexandre Dantas! Thanks for having interest in this project. Please take the time to visit any of the links below.

bsod homepage: http://www.alexdantas.net/projects/bsod
Contact: eu @ alexdantas.net
My homepage: http://www.alexdantas.net

Huge thanks to xscreensaver and it's bsod screensaver. Took inspiration and several BSODs from there, adapting to Ruby/SDL. Originally written by Jamie Zawinski [email protected] in 1998, with contribution from many others. It's also based on the concept by Stephen Martin [email protected].