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Could anyone recommend some good free or cheap software for designing your own screen savers? I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction towards ones that would be wortwhile to try. At the moment, what i'm attempting to do is get a screen saver built that will(from a predesigned list)select in random from a number of vintage arcade games and play them on screen as the screen saver. I'm not wanting or needing the games themselves to be playable, just having their "demo" modes as the screen saver, complete with their original sounds. i.e. like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Galaga, Galaxian, etc. Any advice on where to look on how to get started with this would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This,Link in my personal opinion is one of the better apps out there..
Sorry I dont have more to offer.

Take Care,
Zero.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
well, when you get hat screensaver program, I look forward to you making the screensaver on 80's arcade games.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Now that you mentioned this ive seen a few screen savers built like this...... For one .... the original Atari Arcade Hits Vol 1 and 2 disc featured screensavers that you could feature the oriignal demo modes on them.

may want to contact digital eclipse and atari on how they turned it into screen savers.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wouldn't it be great if DX had the option to create Screensavers. Screensavers are normal programs except it has to handle the extra messages sent to and from the system.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Since I have all the time in the world , Ill do something for you , ill research on the internet later after lunch on some screensaver software that could meet your needs , and ill post back the results.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Samurize has the ability to use it's configs as screensavers. Really handy to see some of your system stats while it's running.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Try to shot video movies from screen or by the camera. Then set them as screensaver and wallpaper. Can be done with ExterPassive Video Wallpaper software:

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