AfterDark for Windows 7 64bit

Standard Windoze screensavers be boring and meh.

The ones from the AfterDark era (Windows 3.1 to Windows 98) was more fun and had lots of modules...
 
The_Librarian said:
Standard Windoze screensavers be boring and meh.

The ones from the AfterDark era (Windows 3.1 to Windows 98) was more fun and had lots of modules...
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I tried it a while back, but came to the sad realization that I had glorified them in my mind. Not worth it.
 
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Apparently it is able to.

You will have to use Win 3.11 inside DOSBox, and use screenlaunch to launch the DOSBox session, which will then trigger a fullscreen Windows 3.11 session, running the screensaver.

Still a bit fiddly, trying to get AD running by win c:\afterdrk\ad.exe toaster.ad brings up the AD control panel instead of the screensaver you want.

I have got the Johnny Castaway screensaver running this way under Windows 11 64bit, and prodded and poked in the guts of the DOSBox session, and managed to get AD to run - but unfortunately getting it to run on windows startup is a bit of a buggery problem.

Anybody having any ideas of getting AD screensavers to run by using a command-line argument?
 
If you want to run old obscure screensavers that no longer work on newer systems an option to consider is using video screen saver software (I think there's free and commercial versions), it simply lets you use videos as a screensaver. So you just find a video of the old screensaver you'd like and use that, simple.

There used to be loads of short videos people made just use as screensavers like this, loads of really nice ones.


Something I miss is screensavers that added things to the desktop, like bugs crawling over the windows and things.

Another cool thing used to be this program that could turn part of the desktop into water. You'd mark an area of the screen and it would be turned into water that would even reflect and let you choose how wavy the water was, looked great with a wallpaper that had a pond or lake in it.
 
Hmmmm, I did not consider a video to be used as a screensaver...

Guess what I'm going to do?

Yup - Knight Lore (the 48k Speccy version)... :cool:


The video player need to be set to loop the video continuously, right?
 
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The_Librarian said:
Hmmmm, I did not consider a video to be used as a screensaver...

Guess what I'm going to do?

Yup - Knight Lore (the 48k Speccy version)... :cool:


The video player need to be set to loop the video continuously, right?
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sourceforge.net

Video Screensaver

Download Video Screensaver for free. A Windows screensaver that plays videos, with or without sound. A basic video player screensaver for Windows, written in C#. Requires .NET 4.5 runtimes.
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Realtime Soft VideoSaver

VideoSaver, the multi-monitor video screen saver from Realtime Soft
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Used to be sites that had videos for this, like those old wallpapaer sites, unfortunately going through my old bookmarks quick the ones I had are now parked domains. Still just searching video sites for screensaver or video saver should get a bunch of results.

This reminded me of www.dreamscene.org let you put videos on your desktop suck as www.youtube.com.com/watch?v=pDpsaKqPeMY
Looks like DreamScene is still going and hosting videos, just keep in mind a bunch of them might not be suited to work as actual screensavers due to static parts in the image/video.

Could also get a little creative, searching for videos that may work well, suck as "fractal loop" videos etc...
 
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