NOTE: The Perl/CGI/SSI version is supposed to work on all HTTP compliant browsers. It reads 14 individual image files. It is not efficient because the image files are pushed from the server to the client continuously and animated by the Perl script. It doesn't seem to work on any versions of IE (ack-pfft! as Bill the Cat would say).
NOTE: The Java script version is supposed to work on on all Java script compliant browsers. It reads 14 individual image files. It is efficient because the image files are pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the Java script. It works on versions of NS 3.x and IE 4.x and higher.
.gif version
256 color resolution, plain animation, 600x400 (2.1MB file size)
.gif version
64 color resolution, plain animation, 600x400 (1.4MB file size)
NOTE: The .gif version is supposed to work on all browsers. It reads a single file containing all 14 images. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the GIF89a specification. Please wait for the entire file to be read. If you interrupt the read, flush your browser's disk cache, and reload the page. This may be obsolete if Unisys continues to try to suck money out of a public domain compression algorithm.
.gif version
(rotating sphere)
64 color resolution, single image, 303x203 (322KB file size)
NOTE: The .gif version is supposed to work on all browsers. It reads a single file containing an image rendered 15 times. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the GIF89a specification.
.avi version
256 color resolution, plain animation, 600x400 (2.4MB file size)
.avi version
Indeo 3.2 compression, plain animation, 600x400 (762KB file size)
.avi version
Indeo 5.06 compression, plain animation, 600x400 (your viewer may require an updated codex) (1.0MB file size)
.avi version
Indeo 5.11 compression, fancy animation, 160x120 (your viewer may require an updated codex) (14.4MB file size) now with an audio track!
NOTE: The .avi version is supposed to work via a Media Player browser plugin or external viewer. It reads a single file containing all 14 images. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the plugin.
.mpg version
MPEG-1 compression, fancy animation, 320x240 (18.0MB file size) now with an audio track!
.mpg version
MPEG-1 compression, fancy animation, 160x120 (5.4MB file size) now with an audio track!
NOTE: The .mpg version is supposed to work via a Media Player browser plugin or external viewer. It reads a single file containing all 14 images. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the plugin.
.mov version
Video compression, plain animation, 600x400 (1.6MB file size)
.mov version
Video compression, fancy animation, 160x120 (8.0MB file size) now with an audio track! It has been renamed to an .mpg version because it is unreadable by Quicktime, but readable by Media Player.
NOTE: The .mov version is supposed to work via a Quicktime browser plugin or external viewer. It reads a single file containing all 14 images. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the plugin.
.smil version
Internal compression, plain animation, 600x400 now with an audio track!
.smil version
Internal compression, plain animation, 320x240 now with an audio track!
NOTE: The .smil version is supposed to work via a RealPlayer 8 Basic browser plugin or external viewer. It reads 14 individual image files. It is somewhat efficient because the image files are pulled from the server by the client every time and animated by the RealPlayer viewer. The download may be slow because I optimized for image quality versus speed.
.rm version
Internal compression, plain animation, 320x240 (1.4MB file size)
.rm version
Internal compression, plain animation, 320x240 (1.4MB file size)
.rm version
Internal compression, fancy animation, 320x240 (1.4MB file size) now with an audio track!
.rm version
Internal compression, fancy animation, 320x240 (1.4MB file size) now with an audio track! If the browser plugin has problems, then try the external viewer, else play directly from the browser cache file.
NOTE: The .rm version is supposed to work via a RealPlayer 8 Basic browser plugin or external viewer. It reads a single file containing all 14 images. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the RealPlayer viewer. The download may be slow because I optimized for image quality versus speed. The image fidelity could be better if I could disable the compression algorithm, but the file size would probably be too big.
.exe version
256 color resolution, plain animation, 600x400 (2.6MB file size)
.exe version
256 color resolution, fancy animation, 160x120 (8.7MB file size) now with an audio track!
NOTE: The .exe version is supposed to work via its own internal viewer regardless of any browser. It reads a single file containing all 14 images. It is efficient because the image file is pulled from the server by the client once and animated by the internal viewer.
Audio Files Alma Mater MarchFreeware Screensavers Mir 3-D Fotocube for Win9x/NT4 (1.79 mb) Flasher 2.0 for Win9x/NT4 (2 mb) NOTE: I've tested these screensavers and they seem to work pretty good. You can used the 14 parade images (.jpg format) or you can use your own image files.
