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Post by StolenThunder on Feb 25, 2002 15:03:39 GMT -5
...away from your computer. Screensavers. They have no practical use anymore, but here is a beautifully designed one. [You can tell that just from looking at the site]. Very, very professional. System 47If you do download it, get the one with sound. |
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Post by StolenThunder on Feb 25, 2002 15:07:09 GMT -5
Edit : It's back up now.
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Post by Dj on Feb 25, 2002 20:25:19 GMT -5
I'ven't used their screensavers for awhile, but I have before and they are quite neat.
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Post by Christina on Feb 26, 2002 4:46:12 GMT -5
If I download one more thing HE is going to go berserk.
Would you believe he tried to blame PopUp Killer for the PC running slow a couple of days ago. And it wasn't even active. And it's behaving fine now.
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on Feb 26, 2002 5:59:14 GMT -5
^^^ This is why every home should have at least two PC's...and why I'm being allowed to buy a new IMac. ;D
I'm downloading System 47 now...looks like great fun! Some of these screensavers are more fun to watch than anything else on my computer!
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Post by Christina on Feb 26, 2002 6:22:27 GMT -5
*shrugs*
He's talking about networking his lap-top in, so he can get online with it.
What with that, and the hand-held. I think there are quite enough contraptions and boy's toys in this household at the moment.
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on Feb 27, 2002 3:49:43 GMT -5
Okay...here's my review in a nutshell: System47 is a very entertaining screensaver. It has the most realistic LCARS interface I've seen in a long time (almost as good as the one at LCARSCom.net) and a great set of sounds to go with it. The six or so modules that comprise the screensaver come up randomly, so I haven't seen all of them yet, but each one is better than the last. The one that shows a diagnostic display of the Enterprise-E looks very, very similar to the effect that was shown behind the characters in the turbolift scene early in Insurrection. That being said, the program seemed a bit buggy at first. The first three or four times I ran it, it left a program or kernal active after it shut down, with a marker on my taskbar. Annoying. But it seems to have stopped doing that now. Anyway...this one is worth grabbing. It's a lot of fun to watch, and it was definitely a conversation-starter...I had it running in my office during a couple of meetings yesterday, and it was all I could do to keep people focused on each other and not on the screensaver!  I saw an interesting looking one over at LCARSCom.net a few weeks ago...based on the Enterprise (NX-01) computer interface. I'll have a look at that one and let you know what I think. |
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on Feb 27, 2002 7:15:10 GMT -5
Hmm...update here. It's still leaving part of itself active after shutting down about half of the time I use it. I think it may be responsible for some new instability in my system. As pretty as it is, I'm going to junk it. Maybe it will work better on a faster system or more up-to-date OS.
And the one at LCARSCom.net is still under construction. I'll keep an eye open and let you know when it becomes available.
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Post by StolenThunder on Feb 27, 2002 13:59:07 GMT -5
That's a shame...
Still, it worked well on my old Win95 PC, and now works on my WinXP computer.
Perhaps it is something to do with networking...
Ah well.
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on Feb 27, 2002 14:18:12 GMT -5
It's probably just a conflict with one of the fifteen or so programs that run minimized on my machine at any given time... ;D
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Post by StolenThunder on Feb 27, 2002 14:22:29 GMT -5
That could well be the one...   |
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Post by Christina on Feb 27, 2002 16:17:41 GMT -5
That's a shame... works on my WinXP computer.
"Look dear, someone running WinXP. Wanna chat with him?
Dear?
Dear?
WAKE UP WHEN I'M TELLING YOU SOMETHING USEFUL! "
*sigh*
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Post by StolenThunder on Feb 28, 2002 15:08:04 GMT -5
Hmm.
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Post by Dj on Mar 3, 2002 23:17:19 GMT -5
Indeed
(Just seeing how it feels)
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Post by StolenThunder on Mar 4, 2002 13:14:37 GMT -5
Nice, isn't it. |
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