I have been fascinated with screen savers. Currently i have the Windows 7 ribbons one accross three monitors which is rather cool. I did before have a screen saver called Electric Sheep. That was awesome but it was taking up huge amounts of resouces. So it had to go. By the way it is still in Beta.
What are your screen savers and ones that you would recommend?
Nvidia has some cool ones
[url]http://www.nvidia.com/object/cool_stuff.html#/screensavers[/url]
I like the railway and village one.
The classic screensavers years ago were the best ones. I loved the maze screensaver that Windows used to have. There was also a screensaver I had of a cartoon man on an island, who would always do something different, and there was the one rare case in which he could be rescued I think.
black screen
that or turn off monitor
The really slick screensavers are incredible.
[url]http://www.reallyslick.com/screensavers.html[/url]
[url]http://9031.com/goodies/#fliqlo[/url]
Perhaps my favourite screensaver of all time.
I like the pixel city one:
[url]http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=3237[/url]
[video=youtube;oRL5durPleI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI[/video]This one was my favorite back in the windows 95/98 days.
If you like Ribbons, you should really take a look around and see if you can find the Windows Energy(AKA Branded) screensaver. I'm pretty sure it came on Vista, and to be honest it looks somewhat lower quality on high resolution monitors, but it's nice.
Holy crap this topic is 4 weeks old? Well if you read this anyway then... :v:
I just use an animated wallpaper so don't really see a need for a screensaver.
dropclock is a cool one:
[url]http://scr.sc/products/dropclock/[/url]
in theory you have to pay for it after your trial is up, but it continues to work (like winrar)
also, multiple monitor matrix goodness:
[url]http://download.cnet.com/The-Matrix-Screen-Saver/3000-2257_4-10067722.html[/url]
the one i currently use, it's the best one I've found
[QUOTE=robotman5;33935091][video=youtube;oRL5durPleI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI[/video]This one was my favorite back in the windows 95/98 days.[/QUOTE]
I still have the .scr file for the maze, I took it off of an old Win95 PC I got about a month ago. It still runs decent for 95 PC.
I personally like my screensavers to do something useful, since LCDs don't really need "saving".
[b]Disk Defrag: [url]http://auslogics-disk-defrag-screensaver.en.softonic.com/[/url]
Antivirus Scanner: [url]http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=deepsight-screensaver[/url][/b]
[video=youtube;22NyKD0M4rc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22NyKD0M4rc[/video]
I don't think there's a way to use this on Vista or 7 :i'dputasadsmileyherebuttherearen'tanyleft:
[QUOTE=Tamschi;34281404][video=youtube;22NyKD0M4rc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22NyKD0M4rc[/video]
I don't think there's a way to use this on Vista or 7 :i'dputasadsmileyherebuttherearen'tanyleft:[/QUOTE]
I remember the toasters, although this is the one I remember.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBq3WoQyinY[/media]
I still have Afterdark 3.0 for MacOS on floppies, even though that Mac is long gone.
[QUOTE=Demache;34281572]I remember the toasters, although this is the one I remember.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBq3WoQyinY[/media]
I still have Afterdark 3.0 for MacOS on floppies, even though that Mac is long gone.[/QUOTE]
This was the best screensaver (and version of said screensaver) ever made. :3 There were so many clones and copycats trying to steal and mimic Berkley's software. :v:
-snip, dead link-
Can links to abandonware be posted? Thats what this is being listed as.
[QUOTE=Brock Obama;34283277]This was the best screensaver (and version of said screensaver) ever made. :3 There were so many clones and copycats trying to steal and mimic Berkley's software. :v:[/QUOTE]
I wish I could find a version that worked on Windows 7. Shit would be so cash.
Although my other favorite screen saver in the suite, was one that would essentially generate random terrain using dots and "fly through it". Reminds me of an early version voxels.
I wish I knew a way to get a 16 bit screensaver to work with WIN7
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;34533207]I wish I knew a way to get a 16 bit screensaver to work with WIN7[/QUOTE]
I managed to get After Dark 3.0 running on Windows 7 32 bit (for 64 bit, its probably not going to happen, ever). Its INCREDIBLY unstable though, even running it in Win95 mode. Screen saver works fine once. Then it just locks the screen and takes a dump.
[QUOTE=Demache;34537346]I managed to get After Dark 3.0 running on Windows 7 32 bit (for 64 bit, its probably not going to happen, ever). Its INCREDIBLY unstable though, even running it in Win95 mode. Screen saver works fine once. Then it just locks the screen and takes a dump.[/QUOTE]
I wonder if it is possible to program a application that would run a process in the background that would do the same thing as the regular screensaver, But also lowering the resolution for 16 bits, as you worked with small resolutions back in the 16 bit day.
I'm sure it would be possible, just display the file after say 5 minutes.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;34537722]I wonder if it is possible to program a application that would run a process in the background that would do the same thing as the regular screensaver, But also lowering the resolution for 16 bits, as you worked with small resolutions back in the 16 bit day.
I'm sure it would be possible, just display the file after say 5 minutes.[/QUOTE]No, its not a screen size problem. Its the way the actual application works. Its a 16 bit program that runs in the background, and runs the screen saver, independent of the Windows screen saver system. It think it has a lot to do with the fact it relied a LOT on some stuff from DOS that really isn't in Windows 7 (plus the fact it just hates Aero, but that's an entirely different beast itself). You had to modify system.ini and all that fun stuff.
[editline]3rd February 2012[/editline]
Maybe I'll see if it could work in XP. But that's probably even a stretch. Only way I could imagine it working 100%, is porting it to 32 bit.
[QUOTE=Demache;34538066]No, its not a screen size problem. Its the way the actual application works. Its a 16 bit program that runs in the background, and runs the screen saver, independent of the Windows screen saver system. It think it has a lot to do with the fact it relied a LOT on some stuff from DOS that really isn't in Windows 7 (plus the fact it just hates Aero, but that's an entirely different beast itself). You had to modify system.ini and all that fun stuff.
[editline]3rd February 2012[/editline]
Maybe I'll see if it could work in XP. But that's probably even a stretch. Only way I could imagine it working 100%, is porting it to 32 bit.[/QUOTE]
So I shall be without johnny castaway.
I still cling to the idea it may be possible with some visual basic, At least to display. But not as in a screensaver.
It would be cool to make a new version of johnny.
Johnny is that guy on the island btw.
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