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In this thead, we shall post screen-savers that are good.
This is because I need one, but also because noone ever talks about screensavers.
Some people don't even use em. Huh.
I remember I recently had a cool flower one that responded to whatever music you were playing. Can't remember what it was called though.
This is because I need one, but also because noone ever talks about screensavers.
Some people don't even use em. Huh.
I remember I recently had a cool flower one that responded to whatever music you were playing. Can't remember what it was called though.
Minecraft & XBL name: TheCJX
Steam: Ashengor
Steam: Ashengor
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ATI also has a couple of pretty cool screensavers
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Video card tech demos like GeoForms from Nvidia and ATI's 3D screensavers are pretty beautiful, but requires some meaner hardware. Plus, it seems pretty wasteful to have your video accelerator running full blast and wasting power for a screensaver.
I've been using that same Matrix screen saver for years.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
As such I don't have a screen saver. Unless having the monitor go black counts.
I remember people talking about that guy on an island screen saver. It's supposed to be legendary.
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Johnny Castaway
Since this is a cult favourite, the Planescape: Torment screensaver:
http://www.wischik.com/lu/senses/pst.html
It's even configurable so you can write your own conversation pieces for it.
::Edit:; Superb, people are still seeing new things happen on the island now!
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
ahhh... memories.
Does the Matrix one work with XP? I was fiddling with it but the screen saver doesn't show up in my list of Screen Savers.
It also doesn't help the readme pre-dates xp.
Yeah, I use it with XP Pro SP2. What you have to do is extract the file, right click on MatrixCode (should be a 452kb file) and scroll down to "Install" and click on that. It'll bring up the screensaver control panel and you should be all set.
XBL : lJesse Custerl | MWO: Jesse Custer | Best vid ever. | 2nd best vid ever.
Anyway, it is a plain white background, and the graphics kind of have that Flash animation look. Basically, there is like a black bar in the center, that the images morph and rotate out of. Like, curvy things with ruffled, kinda fractally looking edges. All almost exactly the same, but a little different. Sometimes they look like things briefly, usually it is pretty abstract. The content repeats after maybe a minute, I guess. It's hard to tell, but it is really hypnotic.
My screensaver on my home computer is the windows slideshow doing all of PA up until about a month ago.
Also, the Rodger Dodger, and Paper, Rock, Scissors screensavers from After Dark were pretty cool. My piano teacher in middle school had them, and she was sick a lot. So on days when she was gone, a lot of times we'd stand around her computer and bet which of the three would win, or collaboratively try to beat Rodger Dodger.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/BlueScreen.mspx
Available from microsoft.com, even! Anyway, it basically perfectly simulates a BSoD on whatever your system config happens to be, and even goes into a reboot loading screen, upon which it hits another BSoD and restarts endlessly. All the info on the BSoD is taken straight from your system, too, like addresses and whatnot.
And you can end the screensaver just by hitting escape or whatever. It's fun. So far, I've frightened at least three people who went to use my laptop and were concerned that it crashed.
Download it here:
EDIT: beated.
That. Is. BRILLIANT!
I should push this screen saver out through AD to all of my users.
Some virus scan progs may catch on it. I had to uncheck "Jokes" in McAfee's Unwanted Programs settings to keep it from moving the file to quarantine.
Basically a screensaver that uses distributed computing to figure out proper arrangements of proteins, which has large implications for future scientific endeavours.
Here's the Youtube video for the Baker lab describing it.
I have it running, and it's pretty awesome.
It's a Windows version of the Mac slideshow...thing. I don't know, I'm not a Mac person. Set it to an image directory, and it'll phase through your photos or what have you with slick zooms, pans, and fades. Best slideshow screensaver out there, IMO. It does seem to have a penchant for slightly inappropriate chest zooms and pans, so watch out.
Zoomquilt 2
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Edit: The flash file is SO much more awesome IMO when it's zoomed backwards instead of forwards, shame the screensaver doesn't have settings for speed/direction. I'd love to have it slowly creep backwards. Still better than the original ZQ saver though.
Ah danke my good man!
Seconded. After a few days, some of the sheep that appear are just gorgeous.
I think he does at one point, actually. I swore I saw him being rescued once.
I couldn't get that blasted thing to react to my music. How do you have it set up?
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He does! But then he misses the island he spent so much time on and parachutes back out there!
The webpage a few pages back has it on. I'm going to set this as my screensaver again.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch