So back when I first started writing code, I was had this obsession with screen savers. I don’t really know why but I loved screen savers that were not repetitive, ones that changed over time and did something. Like any of the following:
- Johnny Castaway by Sierra Online - best writeup, wikipedia
- the After Dark series by Berkeley Systems - wikipedia
- SETI@home
- World Community Grid
- Various Santa Clause antic’s screen savers
- Various Fish Tank screen savers
…and my personal favorite:
- Space Combat by Philip Williams
but nowadays I don’t download screen savers unless I can compile from source…
anyways, at one time I attempted to create my own in VB (why VB…well that’s a post in itself) based on the Space Combat screen saver, but I didn’t have fancy graphics. So I used basic sprites and freely available images found on various corners of the InterTubes:
If you want to take a look you can download it, or with the VB source