Buggy SoFTware (aka Brian Hill <bhill@physics.ucla.edu>) releases version 1.1 of the RoachesView BackSpace module.
Substantial changes to make RoachesView use less cpu and animate more smoothly were made several months ago. The only recent change is a quick hack to eliminate a broken feature (search the source for "Hack" if you're curious).
v 1.1 is tri-fat, and has no known bugs. An oft-requested feature, the ability to kill roaches, has not been added, but the source (Copyleft 1994) is also on the archives, and if you want to turn RoachesView into a game, you are welcome to.
The performance of RoachesView has improved due to the suggestions of
Grant Baillie, Darcy Brockbank, Mitch Golden, Paul Griffin, Scott Hess, and others.