Downloads

Current release for Windows

Download the newest version of Really Slick Screensavers here. You can choose a Windows installer for easy installation, or a .zip file containing all the savers if you are the do-it-yourself type. These links will take you to a SourceForge download page and the file download will begin. See the instructions for more details. If you think the savers are slick enough, please donate.

Other operating systems

These are versions of my savers that work on platforms other than Windows. If you want to port these savers to another platform, you can get the source code from the SourceForge project.

On occasion, I hear from people who have trouble running a new version of a saver and want to get the old one back. My collection is incomplete since I haven't kept all the old savers for myself, but maybe I'll find all of them eventually. ...Please don't confuse these with the current versions of the savers; you can find those at the very top of this webpage.

Source code

If you're a graphics nerd you might like to try playing around with the source code for Really Slick Screensavers. I wrote my savers as art projects instead of programming projects (no planning ahead whatsoever), so there is a decent amount of magic math in the code. However, after a lot of cleaning up, it is better than it used to be.

Source code for Really Slick Screensavers is available here, or you can visit the SourceForge project page if you want to check out the code through Subversion.

Reflect.zip (for Windows)
This is a real-time sphere map demo. I had planned to use this code in a saver that I still haven't gotten around to writing. Maybe I'll get to it someday.

parallaxmap.tar.gz (for Linux)
This demo requires GLUT, ARB_vertex_program, and ARB_fragment_program. Parallax mapping is a 2D effect that simulates the parallax effects on bumpy surfaces, giving them a more 3D appearance. This is done by shifting texture coordinates on a per-pixel basis.

fbo.tar.gz (for Linux and Windows)
This is a demo of rendering to textures with EXT_framebuffer_object (FBO, for short). It requires GLUT and EXT_framebuffer_object. FBO is soooooo much nicer than pbuffers.