Hard-To-Find The Hills Screensaver — Get It Here

Lonnie Lazar ()

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The Hills screensaver is about the coolest screensaver I’ve seen for Mac OS X, but it’s not easy to get.

The screensaver shows beautifully rendered rolling green hills covered in perfectly-manicured grass. You fly over them as though gliding in a silent helicopter. It’s utterly hypnotic — and very relaxing, especially on a big display.

The developer, Chris Kent, was hosting it on a .mac account, but he exceeded bandwidth limits and it’s now gone.

Searching for it in Google brings up a bunch of old links — it’s very frustrating.

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So we’re hosting the file here. Download The Hills version 1.1: hills-1-1.dmg.

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Lonnie Lazar

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  • clicknathan

    Wow! This is almost as cool as that “I’m flying through the stars” screensaver from days of old.

    The only thing that could make it better is if maybe the hills had eyes, or it didn’t exist. :)

  • http://www.we-rate-stuff.com brad8989

    Link doesn’t work.

  • mike ormsby

    When i try to download The Hills, all I get is a page of text full of gobbledygook, like this: xs bb“âQ0C
    any suggestions?
    thank you.
    mike/romania

  • Solo

    Great find, and many thanks for hosting the file! Btw: your mime-types on the server are wrong, the .dmg is registered as a html file.

    Here are some action-style settings for the app that I came up with (faster, higher hills, you often just make it over a hill without crashing into it):
    hills height: 8.88
    speed: 50
    look-ahead distance: 5.39
    camera-height: 1.31
    grid size: 256
    fog density: 0.011
    foc color: rgb 118 209 255

  • Solo

    brad, mike: until Lonnie fixes the mime types, try this to download:
    1. ctrl-click on the link, select “copy link”
    2. open safari downloads window
    3. press cmd-v to paste and start the download
    4. once download is finished, rename the file in finder so that it ends with .dmg
    Cheers!

  • http://www.we-rate-stuff.com brad8989

    Worked perfectly. Thanks!

  • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

    @Solo: Thanks for the heads up about the mime types. I’ve fixed it. There should be no problems downloading the file now.

    And thanks also for the configuration tip. I tried your settings, but the high speed made me a bit nauseous on the big screen I have. I prefer the slower, gentler pace of the defaults..

  • mike ormsby

    Thank you Solo, works great! Thou rockest. Mike

  • mike ormsby

    Leander, yes i agree on the pace. Solo must be a jet pilot in real life. M