Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

I seem to remember, it was either 95 or 98 that had, as an option for a screensaver, swirly screensavers, eg, effects happening to what was on your screen at the time. Eg, if your desktop had been the last thing on screen before the saver took effect, there would be effects happening to it...

Does anyone remember these, and, if so, are there any free savers that have the same sort of effect?

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Oh you mean the ones where for example a part of your desktop would distort/move/turn. Hmm, haven't seen them since, I guess '95/'98.

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Yeah I remember them..

A swirly one that twisted everything, one that stretched everything as if it was a circular glass, and one that sort of pulled everything towards a centre point.

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Yup, they were all for old OS's. You might find a remake on Google for XP, but those days are gone...

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Man..I totally remember those. It had that one that pulled apart your screen...why can't they work on new computers and work perfectly on old ones. Gt with it MS.

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

I still have them cause Linux still uses them :P

But I think you can still find them for Windows if you do a google and download them.

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Windows 98 was the last one that had that. I didn't like it much either.

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

ive seen those and even downloaded them before (to play tricks on my friends sicne theyve never seen them before they thought their computer was melting lol) but in order to find them now you have to go to any search engin ( i use google) and type in " Screen savers / downloads"

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Hmm yeah Linux had them , I used to have linux :( . Had to rebuild my computer considering one of my harddrives died on me, and yes it was very important... :( Makes me cry to this day.

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

Would it work if you transferred the .scr files? Would the be compatible with XP Home SP1?

Re: Whatever Happened To Those Swirly Screensavers?
 

im not sure if it would be compatable.. they can be very tempermental when it comes to those kinds of things.. like the screensaver "Blue screen of death" can NOT be used on computer systems newer then 98 :(