Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Screensaver. Einstein@Home interactive screensaver. A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence ...
MOPy fish. MOPy fish next to a rock and plant. The MOPy fish is a freeware cyberpet, released in October 1997 for Microsoft Windows by The Global Beach Group on behalf of Hewlett-Packard. [1] It had been downloaded more than 10 million times as of the year 2000. Based on the blood parrot cichlid fish, the MOPy fish has a complex behavior pattern.
While I don't dispute the characterization of the fish-tank-to-3d-television as being a "screensaver" I do dispute the text here that reads "Decades before the first computers utilizing this technology were invented, Robert A. Heinlein postulated that they would be needed in his novel Stranger In A Strange Land (1961).[1][2]" (emphasis added)
October 3, 2007. Genre (s) Puzzle. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Tetris Splash is a puzzle video game, part of the Tetris games, was published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. It is the first game produced by Tetris Online, Inc. The game gets its name from the aquarium background and water-themed music.
After Dark is a series of computer screensaver software introduced by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for the Apple Macintosh, and in 1991 for Microsoft Windows. [3] [4]Following the original, additional editions included More After Dark, Before Dark, and editions themed around licensed properties such as Star Trek, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Marvel, and Disney characters.
Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1992 by Sierra On-Line / Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand as "the world's first story-telling screen saver". The screensaver depicts a man, Johnny Castaway, stranded on a very small island with a single palm tree. It follows a story which is slowly revealed through time.
The user can also procedurally generate background music for their tank using an in-game composer, or choose a separate MIDI music file to be played for each virtual aquarium, and feed the fish. The tank simulator can run as a memory-resident program in MS-DOS, making it a screensaver. Multiple tanks can be displayed via El-Fish's slideshow ...
On Wednesday, Aug. 21, the father of four, 38, shared a new Instagram photo of himself standing outdoors with his daughters and his wife Aree Gearhart. The couple, who wed in 2023, welcomed their ...