Syntrillium Software was a company formed in the early 1990s by former Microsoft employees Robert Ellison and David Johnston. Their most popular product was Cool Edit, a sound editing program. The company was purchased by Adobe in May 2003, and Cool Edit henceforth became known as Adobe Audition.
Sadly, it seems that Adobe has killed off Syntrillium’s other products, which included the popular Snoqualmie screen saver and Wind Chimes, a silly (but much loved) program that imitated wind chimes on your computer. Wind Chimes not only imitated traditional wind chimes, it could also do piano improvisations and imitate several Asian types of wind chimes. You could even “roll your own” chimes by choosing the number of chimes, the base note, the music scale… even the wind speed!
Many people loved Wind Chimes… so much, in fact, that it developed its own little cult following. Since I seem to be the “last hope” for certain software programs, I decided to add Wind Chimes to my collection of ancient downloadable apps:
Wind Chimes (163kb)
The program will run without installation (just unzip and run the chimes.exe file). You cannot register the program any more, and you’ll get an occasional “nag screen” that stops the chimes and reminds you to register (although you can find ways around this if you know where to look… wink-wink!).
If you are the owner of this software and you’d like for me to remove it from this site, please check out the Contact Me page to get in touch with me!
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Oh, thank you for posting. Not many of us remember this and what I thought was backed up on my floppy was corrupt. Thank you for posting this!!
Just out of curiousity do you know where one might find that old kalediscope screen saver and that snoqualmie saver too?
Lisa
Sadly, I don’t not know where to get Kaleidescope or Snoqualmie. I *think* I have Snoqualmie burned to CD-DVD *somewhere* in my archives, but I have no idea where it might be.
I *do* know that I installed it a couple of years ago and looked high and low for my registration code (it was the first piece of software I ever bought online), but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
If I get a chance, I’ll look for them both.
I take that back. You can download Snoqualmie here:
http://www.screensaver.com/download.cfm?id=121
I just scanned it – it’s virus-free!
Jim,
Your snoqualmie link is a dead end. Or is it just me?
Kate
Well, the Snoqualmie link worked fine for me just now, but just in case, I uploaded it to my site:
http://www.jimcofer.com/files/snosetup.exe
Thanks Jim,
Works fine now (probably worked fine on the eleventh but my pc is so protected that I can’t download anything).
Awesome, Jim! Here’s a link for Kaleidoscope 95 at PC World:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/userreviews/fid,5131/userreviews.html
Hi, many thanks for the snoqualmie link. I love this program and was about to hunt through my floppy disk backups from many years ago for this! But, can you give any more hints as to how to get round the “nag screen” ?
This post deleted… keep reading!
Hi Jim,
Found your site whilst looking for Snoqualmie. The version you’ve uploaded doesn’t have a virus, but it does contain Adware (picked up by Avast! virus scanner), so you should probably remove it.
Sarah
No, it doesn’t.
At least, not according to Kaspersky 6.0.3.837.
Honestly, I tried using the free version of Avast! and gave up on it due to the incredible number of false positives it generated.
I had been using Active Virus Shield (an AOL-branded version of Kaspersky) and the license expired. Since AOL didn’t renew its contract with Kaspersky, I needed a new AV program. I tried Avast! but decided that it was better to pay $35.99 for a standalone version of Kaspersky than Avast!, which was constantly reporting OUTLOOK.EXE and IEXPRESS.EXE as viruses on my system.
Well, OK. Although I should add that it doesn’t show up in Avast! when you scan the .exe but is picked up during actual installation by the resident portion of the virus checker.
More importantly, the file size of your version is 624kb, whilst all the others on the web seem to be 503kb, including the one which I just installed: I bought a licence years ago so don’t have any (sno)qualms about that. (Also, your version also seems to have a very non-standard icon for the installer.)
I’m not trying to be argumentative, I assure you. I would have been more questioning of Avast! myself had it not been for the file size issue.
(Avast! seems to be working well for me so far. I changed to it because I read that it ‘plays well’ with Comodo firewall.)
Sarah
THANK YOU !! I loved this lil prog I wish I could register to it . Iam so glad you still have this. Booo To Adobe for trashing Snoqualmie and kaleid95
Hey, for those of you who liked my earlier programs, I have just finished a revamped version of ‘Snoqualmie’, which I’m now calling ‘Zen Light’, which you can get at http://zendogsoftware.com . I also have been working on updating Wind Chimes as well, but it’s not quite ready yet (but when it is, I’ll make it available at the same web site).
When Adobe purchased my company, they purchased all the products we had, but I have since gotten the rights back to all the non-Cool-Edit code. Since Zen Light has so many kaleidoscopic effects, it didn’t make much sense to re-do Kaleidoscope 95. Zen Light does not respond to music (yet), but I’m hoping to put that into the next major version if I get a good response from this release.
If anyone has any questions, comments, or program suggestions for me, you can reach me through the web site.
-David.
Wow! Thanks for letting us know about that, David!
In light of the “non-abandonware” status of the software, I’ve deleted “that post” above!
Windchimes download:
http://www.capslock.ws/2008/06/29/syntrillium-wind-chimes-1.01.html
Hey Jim I have Kaleid95 from Syntrillium (unregistered copy ) the cool screen saver that compliments windchimes if you want it I’ll pass it on to you just let me know!! Thanks for WindChimes you are my Hero !!!
Ohh I just read Davids post..heading over to see what he has goin on I’m so excited !! :)
Hi Jim,
If you still need them I have Kaleidoscope and Snoqualmie.
Thanks for postin WindChimes.
Cheers
I had wind chimes a long time ago and I just installed it after finding it on your site.
I can’t hear it, and can’t figure out what the problem is. I’m running XP and tried compatibility mode for Win 95 and that didn’t help.
I wonder if others experienced this and if there is a solution.
Thanks for having kept up with David’s work, and thanks to David for chimes and his new work at Zendog. I have always dug fractals.
Please give this Suzi Kaleidoscope95 for windows 7,i need it and thanks ahead of time for all…..
I submitted a reply asking for kelaidoscop95 that will work with windows 7-the download i found wont work with it…..
what happened to my reply does anyone know?
Thanks ahead to all of you
Suzi
@Suzi: There isn’t a “Windows 7 version” of Kaleidoscope95. As the name suggests, it was written back in the Windows 95 era. The company that made the software also made a program called “CoolEdit”, which Adobe wanted. So Adobe bought the company. Since they were only interested in CoolEdit, they abandoned the other products, like Kaleidoscope95 and Snoqualmie.
One of the guys who owned the original company has started a new software company called ZenDog software:
http://www.zendogsoftware.com
All of their Windows products are, AFAIK, compatible with Windows 7. And pretty darn cool, too!
Jim
Thanks so much for your kindness there still are great people out there… I have bought Kens it is just great i love it. But i just love it…I just did love al the Kaleidoscope and changes of fruits and heats it used i wish someone would remake it for windows 7 … I can use Snoqualmie they are both great Kaleidoscope95 and kens and i would love to have both can’t one of you guys do it??????????
You are great jim as always suzi
I found out Kaleidoscope95 is 32bit and my computer is 64bit awwww..Can ayone help?
Guess i csnt use it..
As Always Suzi
32-bit vs. 64-bit doesn’t matter (well, you can use 32-bit apps on a 64-bit computer, but not the other way around). Try what it says on this page and see if it helps:
http://www.starmessage.info/1/post/2009/09/the-32-bit-screensaver-does-not-work-on-vista-64-bit.html
Thank you so much for Snoqualmie! The tiny problem I have is that it won’t
accept my registration letters. They worked when I bought it, probably just after it came out. Are they all caps with a space in between each?
I don’t remember for sure, but I think it was all caps with NO spaces.
Well, I tried the sequence of letters I have with all caps, no spaces and every variation of Martha Sue Ramsey, Martha S Ramsey Martha Ramsey I could think of. I never used my nickname then (or now actually) because I use my banking name to buy stuff online. If I sent you the code I have, is there any record of me buying it? I do love Zen Light and I would love to go back to Snoqualmie, too.
Try this: google the phrase “Snoqualmie serial”. Click the first result and follow the instructions there. Does that work?
Oh yes, thank you so much. I do love Zen Light and I play with it to chill. But Sno was first and it still makes me feel calm and helps me change my focus. Your stuff is great for what ails ya! Thanks again and thanks for being on the planet right now. Marti