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Download Screen Savers for Windows.

These are savers and utilities that have been written with the help of Scrplus or other resources on this site. If you'd like me to include one of your savers here, please email me.

Polymorf3D - shiny colourful 3d shape that morphs and transforms itself over the screen. By Adam Dawes. Download it from his web page.


Hamster Dance Saver (1.6Mb) - Legions of dancing hamsters will drive you mad with their inane de-do-de-do he-he-he! By Lucian Wischik.


Circles3 (200k) - A fractal of continuous coloured concentric circles. By Lucian Wischik. (Note: if you have a version of Windows older than XP, you'll have to download Microsoft's GDI+)


Stick Figure Procession (760k) - a procession of stick figures dance in time to the music. By Lucian Wischik.


Esse Lunga (2.2Mb) - a slideshow of food pun pictures in Italian, from a recent advertising campaign. By Lucian Wischik.


TwinkeGL - sends a shower of twinkling stars across the screen in a variety of attractive patterns. By Adam Dawes. Download it from his web page.


ABs (741k) - Abdominal exercise. Hardest workout to date: 34,231 reps. Witness the awesome destructive power of my ABs. By Lucian Wischik.


Circles (1.2Mb) - Fractal circles spin about each other, inside each other. This saver is currently undergoing testing. Please download it and email me to say whether or not it worked on your system. Thanks!

Impressionist screen saver - What did Monet see when he dreamt? Find out with screen saver! Colourfully globs up your desktop. By Brian Rogers. Download it from his web site.


Dragon Cutlets (192k) - a 3d OpenGL hanging dragon mobile gently twists and turns. Why is he called Cutlets? Run it and see! By Lucian Wischik.


Not An Elephant (605k) - Images of not-an-elephant inspired by Saint-Exupery's book The Little Prince. By Lucian Wischik.


Ghostly Images (162k) - Through a screen of static, faint ghostly images appear just at the edge of perception. Use your own images! Or use these ghostly faces (145k). By Lucian Wischik.


Pie Gates (1.1Mb) - Watch a video clip of Bill Gets getting a cream pie in his face, in Belgium Feb 1998. By Lucian Wischik.


Worms (445k) - A can of gloriously coloured worms erupts from the center of your screen. By Lucian Wischik.


3D Kaleidoscope (100k) - Pleasing colours, textures and shapes move and rotate symmetrically in this 3d accelerated saver. By Hannes Kaufmann.


Phantastic (335k) - a wide configurable selection--rain drops, bouncing bitmaps, wipe-out, colour blend. By Inner-Smile.com. Has very good reviews. Download it from its home page.


Cannabinatic (550k) - Shows "interesting views and facts about a Miracle Drug known as 'Hemp'". By Inner-Smile.com. Has very good reviews. Download it from its home page.


Advertising (770k) - you configure backgrounds, text, pictures, animations to advertise your business or product. By Inner-Smile.com. Has very good reviews. Download it from its home page.


Rotating Galaxies (348k) - An astrophysical simulation of the galaxy, with some flashy 3d visuals. The spiral galaxy rotates; stars form out of the dust, grow old, and explode into supernovae, perhaps triggering star formation in adjacent sectors of the galaxy. By Lucian Wischik.


Aepryus Graph - mathematical animated 3d graph shapes, with lots of configurability. By Aepryus Software. Download the saver from their web page. You can also download lots of additional configuration files for the saver that people have sent in.


Dodecahedrons (241k) - 3d dodecahedral stars rotate about each other, or morph into their various forms. By Doug Neill.


Interactive massage tile puzzle (856k) - with various massage-related images. Once you've solved a puzzle you can set it as your wallpaper. Solve all the puzzles, and you can use your own images! Also in the same series: Fantasy picture puzzle (fan4.zip, 836k) and Pharmaceuticals picture puzzle (pharm4.zip, 1.3Mb). By Lucian Wischik.


Proofs in the Symmetric Action Calculus (303k) - a fun little graphical animation of some of the author's Ph.D. research. By Lucian Wischik.


Marquee Plus - like the windows one, but way better: has networking, millenium countdown, text going at angles and more. By Chris Long. Download it from his web site.


ZoneRings (1.3Mb) - psychadelic pattern and polygon generator. Absolutely amazing! Highly recommended. By Johnny Biddiscombe.


Mountain Terrain - generates random 3d landscapes in a variety of planetary styles, and plays music while it does it! Highly recommended. By Alexander Barentyne. Download it from his web site.


Slides (485k) - create your own slideshow of JPEG or BMP images. By Lucian Wischik.


Flame (134k) - flames come up from the bottom of your screen. By Lucian Wischik.


Static (55k) - a DirectDraw screen full of static. By Lucian Wischik.


Custom Password Verification (234k) - using the 'honor' password verification technology... By Lucian Wischik.


Other screen saver download sites.

Most of the screen savers floating around on the internet are useless slide-shows or similar. You will have to search hard to find the gems. Here are some places to look:




www.zanox.com

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