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3D Pipes Screensaver
- TechBro8615 5y agoYou can get this with XScreenSaver (works on Mac). https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/ https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
- TechBro8615 5y agoJust make sure you paste the link into your URL bar instead of clicking it, lest the HN referrer lead your browser astray. Funny thing is, I knew about that trap when I posted the link, and actually included this warning – but when I tested it, the site loaded fine, so I edited my comment to remove the warning. Some sneaky tricks being played!
- gigatexal 5y agoThis is so, so freakin' cool! Reminds me of the old days when this was my screensaver in old school win95/98 days. Thank you, this made my day!
- _Microft 5y agoLook closely at a few screens, there is at least one easter egg in there. (Edit: removed hint where to find the easter egg.)
- tuckerconnelly 5y agoHint: HTTP 418 :)
- conradludgate 5y agoThe reference predates that, it's a 3d modelling easter egg that's included in a lot of older 3d animated movies
- conradludgate 5y agohttps://youtu.be/TIxt9guMbXo https://youtu.be/TIxt9guMbXo
- conradludgate 5y agoThat Easter egg was in the original Microsoft pipes too
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- dvh 5y agoOh the 3d pipes screensaver. When I was 15, in high school, we had to spent 1 week every year in apprenticeship in some field-related company. Me and two other classmate went to one small telecommunication firm. On the first day boss called us to the conference room and told us to sit down. I sat on the nearest chair, the boss leaned to me and whispered to my ear "that's my chair!". Then he gave us notebook with 10 minute ISDN presentation and left. He said he will be back after 8 hours. We watched it 2-3 times, then out of boredom we were checking new screensavers in brand new windows and we spent good two hours watching the pipes screensaver. We forget to turn it back, when boss returned, the notebook wake up from sleep, shortly flashed pipes screensaver and then showed ISDN presentation. "You changed the screensaver? Get the hell out of here!". And fired us. We spent the rest of the week slacking in the town and then made some bullshit made up report about ISDN afterwards. Good times.
- NackerHughes 5y agolol
- razodactyl 5y agoUm. Where was this? Boss sounds like a nut case haha
- paulpauper 5y agoNothing is more 90s than huge bulky monitors and screensavers
- a-dub 5y agoDEGAUSS
- ivanmontillam 5y ago"It's now safe to turn off your computer."
- King-Aaron 5y ago> Insert disk 2
- nayuki 5y ago"Windows was not properly shut down. One or more of your disk drives may have errors on it. Press any key to run ScanDisk on these drives..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1x6T5eJbxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1x6T5eJbxA
- rastafang 5y agoIt is now safe to unplug your flash thumb drive... (oops, still a problem)
- anotherjesse 5y agoI did a fast port of this to webxr - updated three.js to have xr support - add the vr button to enter xr - change animation callback https://lets.m4ke.org/pipes/ https://lets.m4ke.org/pipes/ https://twitter.com/anotherjesse/status/1439681077640052736 https://twitter.com/anotherjesse/status/1439681077640052736
- willis936 5y agoI tried to leave a BSOD screensaver for my replacement at my old job. I found dozens of candidates but none of them would run in Windows 10. Windows 10 built-in screen savers don't properly work with multiple monitors. I know the demand for screensavers is extremely low, but I was surprised that the OS with the best reputation for legacy support couldn't keep screensaver libraries working.
- jones1618 5y agoThe modern replacement for screensavers is on Steam: Wallpaper Engine https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/ These run on your Windows background, can include 3D and you can edit your own "live" images w/ particle effects, animated layers, warping, waves and more. Of course, the community has created hundreds of wallpapers you can download.
- a-dub 5y agothe best one on windows was made by the sysinternals people. it would identify the exact version of windows and do full version-faithful bootloops (bios, startup, crash, everything) and even had the option to generate fake disk activity for extra believability. i think they had to give it up after they got acquired by the mothership though. (not totally surprising, or unreasonable really)
- stavros 5y agoOh man, that damn screensaver. I tried to use it many times back in the day, but it always had some problem that would crash my OS and I had to reboot it. I was surprised that a screensaver even can crash an OS. Then, one day, I realized what it was supposed to do..
- t8e56vd4ih 5y agoi can still remember the times when something like a screen saver was actually exciting.
- Beermotor 5y agoIf I recall correctly 3D Pipes shipped with NT 3.51 as IIRC 3.5 only shipped with software OpenGL with no support for hardware acceleration. I remember running it on a DEC Alpha box with an AccelGraphics AG500 and being awed by it.
- watersb 5y agoI think that's correct: Windows NT first. It ran just fine on my 486DX2.
- logbiscuitswave 5y agoAt first I thought how neat it was to see this classic screensaver rendered in the browser. Then I realized I could fly through it too! Bravo.
- wyldfire 5y agoI think Dan Flashes took inspiration from some of these screensavers for his shirt designs. The patterns are really quite complex.
- squarefoot 5y agoVery nice, it brought memories, although it wasn't my favorite screensaver back then. I found the Serenescreen aquarium to be relaxing (child memories: my father had multiple real tropical fishes aquariums I loved to stare at), and then there was that spectacular screensaver with changing complex high res graphics (for the time, circa 1999) that I can't recall the name, they weren't fractals though. I love the ability to control the camera on this one though. A couple possible improvements: make pipes multicolored by slowly shifting components, and set up pipes so that after some random time a pipe starts shorting from the end at random speed, sort of a reverse-centipede, so eventually it will disappear allowing space for other pipes without the need to continuously refresh the screen.
- lambdatronics 5y agoWas it just me, or was there an easter-egg in the original where occasionally a sphere would be replaced by a tea kettle?
- EvanAnderson 5y agoNo discussion of the 3D screensavers in NT is completely w/o recalling the Customer who called re: their server being slow. The technician we sent to look at it couldn't find any performance indicators amiss when he ran Perfmon on the server's console. The Customer was shocked at how well the server was running while the technician checked it out. Shortly after he'd left the site the Customer called complaining that the server was "running slow" again. We paged the technician to turn back. He checked it again and still found nothing wrong. It was mysteriously fast again, too. That observation set the wheels in motion for an eventual diagnosis. Apparently this happened enough that there was KB article published on it: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_KB_Archive/121282 https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_KB_Arch...