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Good space flight screensavers?

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Name: bookworm_2
Date: August 19, 2008 at 19:13:56 Pacific
OS: Windows 98SE
CPU/Ram: Pentium MMX 166Mhz 64Mb
Product: IBM ThinkPad 760XD
Comment:

There is a web site where you can download a Star Trek screen saver that's supposed to be similar to MS's Flying Through Space, but you occaisonaly fly past a space ship or planet. But I have never seen so many bugs in one program. (and I use ms windows...) The stars move faster than the planets or space ships, meaning you are moving at speeds ridiculous even for sci-fi; they fly sideways, and in *front* of ships & planets, making the ships idioticaly huge even for space cartoons! Oh well, it was a great idea.

Is there a simiar but more realisticaly done screensaver, with stars, galaxies, nebulas, planets, and maybe or maybe not space ships, real (NASA and foreign) "legendary" (does anyone *really* know what a Reticulan mothership looks like up close? If so, please don't answer...;) or fictional (Star Trek, Star Wars, other, all) or preferably a combiation, but not too many.

It should work at full speed on a 166Mhz Pentium MMX. Many space screensavers I've seen require a Pentium II or III, and 300Mhz!



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Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: August 19, 2008 at 20:00:43 Pacific
Reply:

How to you know the screen saver isn't graphically accurate? Given that the star trek vehicles traveled at warp speed it's possible the view of passing matter is altered from what we would normally expect.


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Response Number 2
Name: jam
Date: August 23, 2008 at 07:04:32 Pacific
Reply:

"Many space screensavers I've seen require a Pentium II or III, and 300Mhz"

And what does that tell you? You're better off not running a screensaver (especially a complex one) on an old system like that...it will only slow it down.


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Response Number 3
Name: bookworm_2
Date: August 23, 2008 at 19:18:40 Pacific
Reply:

Have You ever seen the 3D maze screensaver that comes with MS Windows 98 Plus? It's complex and runs quickly on this computer. I have never had a screensaver or wallpaper changer slow the computer down.


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Response Number 4
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: August 23, 2008 at 21:09:43 Pacific
Reply:

http://www.download5000.com/page954...

or this:

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~dkm...

(starflight.zip--3rd from the bottom) There's other startrek related stuff there.


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Response Number 5
Name: bookworm_2
Date: September 10, 2008 at 17:04:44 Pacific
Reply:

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the links appear to be broken on the star trek page.

Is anyone else having trouble with it?


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Response Number 6
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: September 10, 2008 at 18:14:05 Pacific
Reply:

Highlight the link and then google the file name. Maybe you can find another site. Of course there may be more than one file with that name.

It seems kind of odd he'd leave the homepage and links but remove the files.


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