• A thread for screensavers
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Very descriptive thread title I have created. I'll just give a quick rundown, from [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screensaver"]Wikipedia[/URL]: [quote]A [B]screensaver[/B] (or [B]screen saver[/B]) is a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program"]computer program[/URL] that blanks the screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use. Initially designed to prevent phosphor [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in"]burn-in[/URL] on [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube"]CRT[/URL] and plasma [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_monitor"]computer monitors[/URL] (hence the name), screensavers are now used primarily for entertainment, security or to display system status information.[/quote] Historically, as the wikipedia link suggests, they were used to prevent burn-in on certain monitors that were susceptable to burn in. So, for example, if I leave some nice gay porn on your CRT for a week, you'd then have an image of a twink taking a massive black phallus burnt into your screen [I]forever[/I] Most people don't use them anymore, most screens just blank and are awoken to a lock screen, however, I stumbled across the xscreensaver package which comes with 200 screensavers that are pretty neat. So I thought I'd make a thread here are some of my favourites: [video=youtube;hVgGfKY91Lg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVgGfKY91Lg[/video] the classic johnny castaway, from the glorious 16 bit era. Sadly that 16 bit means you can't really run it on modern windows. [video=youtube;oRL5durPleI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI[/video] and of course, the maze screensaver. In the xscreensaver package is the unknown pleasure screensaver which I like a lot, it's literally just an animated version of that album cover. I couldn't find a video of it though. For you gnu/linux users xscreensaver usually ships with your version of xorg so you should be able to just type xscreensaver-demo into your favourite terminal to take a look.
[video=youtube;V3aihR_nhug]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3aihR_nhug[/video] I would run this with one game on each of my three screens.
i like 3d pipes
well i use the hal 9000 screensavers from the hal project, but it looks like he recently had a takedown issued against him so they all disappeared from the internet
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