![]() Remember, the Matrix is a system and that system is our enemy, and that system may or may not run on Windows Millennium. The 1999 smash hit, The Matrix, inspired this cryptic “digital rain” screensaver. Splice in a couple of galaxies, some nebular remnants, add a dollop of two-dimensional goodness to taste and, my friend, you’ve got yourself a regular desktop hit. This gem stands as a true testament to the seemingly boundless joy human beings once experienced at the mere sight of just about anything glinting off of their monitors. With this digital aquarium, you can experience the same ephemeral, emotional benefits of a pet fish without the cleanup or a constant, electric drone echoing through your lonely apartment. Ocean floorĪs it turns out, this screensaver, much like the vast majority of the ocean floor, is relatively void of life. Behold MOPy fish, a blood parrot cichlid that individuals could feed and cherish - or not. With our lanyards and keychains already loaded with digital pets in varying degrees of neglect and malnourishment, we needed yet another for our desktop machines. MOPy Fish was the result of both screensaver fever and the short-lived digital pet craze of the late-’90s. ![]() We get to watch ol’ JC fish, exercise, build sand castles, and enjoy an oddly-formal dinner with a merbae, but is he ever rescued? You’ll just have to buy one of the original, 3.5-inch floppy disks (or download the screensaver) to find out. The screensaver illustrates a day in the life of Johnny Castaway, who is marooned on a deserted island with only a palm tree to hear his woes. Johnny Castaway was a staple in many repurposed “computer rooms” of the mid-’90s. Flying toastersĪfter Dark is a series of screensavers released by Berkely Systems, and the early packages included the popular Flying Toasters screensaver. Later variants even came loaded with all sorts of special features, like, you know, bagels. Note: If you watch long enough you will eventually collide with a portion of a debris field in a galaxy far, far away. You can watch 10 hours of Starfield here, if you’re so inclined. This spacefarer screensaver was ubiquitous at the turn of the Willenium, because nothing says “warp speed ahead” quite like a dial-up connection. You can alter speed and even add some shoddy graphics to go full-on bad batch at Bonnaroo, or even upload images from your media library and have a regular “this is your life” walkabout through a phantasmagoria of low-res images. Who needs virtual reality when you can plop down in front of an HP Pavilion and behold this? The 3D Maze originally came with Windows 95 and 98, and the Doom-esque first-person thriller gave millions of individuals a real hoot. It would be preposterous to have a roundup of the best screensavers and not mention perhaps the most recognizable program of them all. I haven't figured out how to do a fade from one image to the next. (this is NOT in the file) # sleep for a few seconds to give the USB drive a change to mount before running the slideshow sleep 5 feh -Y -x -q -D 5 -B black -F -Z /media/pi/0D18-4F37/ (this is NOT in the file) I then edit the "autostart" file in /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi by adding this line at the end to execute the above script: startup.sh This does the trick. ![]() For auto-starting I create a shell script on the desktop called startup.sh. In the ScreenSaver preferences GUI under the "Mode" drop-down menu I simply select "Disable Screen Saver". The screen blanking problem was the easiest. I'd like it to do a dissolve/fade from one image to the next. I wanted it to auto-start with no need for keyboard and mouse. ![]() Great instructable - thanks! There were three changes I really wanted to make, and I've sorted two of them out so far. ![]()
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