here is the latest screensaver written in PB DeskTopSnow

[scurrier]

ok here it is checkit it out and tell me what you think

this should run on all Windows OS's and any desktop setting.
This is an interactive screensaver, hit ESC to exit and the mouse cursor will do cool things when you press the button, the next version we will add sound and some more graphics


P.S.
This was written completely in PB 3.80
@Fred cant wait for the 3D lib to get better we do a lot in 3D but your Language is far the best for speeed and file size keep up the great work


the link to download the file is:
http://www.vrman3d.com/DeskTopSnow/DeskTopSnow.zip

check out the other great stuff we have.. here:
http://www.vrman3d.com


Again Thanks everyone for all the help they have given us!!!!


Sean

[scurrier]

if this crashes as a screensaver to test it out rename to an exe and run it
my partner has found a bug on his other machine we will work on it and get the update uploaded tonight...


Sean

[J. Baker]

Works on WIN XP home edition. On the snow blower though, when going to the right, the transparency didn't work. Able to see the pink background. Nice job

[scurrier]

it's now added to the main site with a picture to see what it does
so check it out at 177k zipped and 250 unzipped ooooo and Best of all
FREE so checkit out and send it to a friend or 2


http://www.vrman3d.com/vrman3ddownloads.htm

Sean

[Num3]

Nice!

And if you UPX the file the size drops from 250Kb to 180Kb

[scurrier]

with UPX can the exe run or does it need to be uncompressed first
there web site didnt say if the compressed file could run or if you need to uncompress it first



Sean

[Karbon]

hahha! That's awesome!

[Num3]

with UPX can the exe run or does it need to be uncompressed first
there web site didnt say if the compressed file could run or if you need to uncompress it first
Sean

Under windows, UPX works on the fly.
When you run a compressed EXE it extracts itself without any extra memory...

The size of the program in memory is exactly the same has it would be without compression.

UPX reserves a memory block of the size of the uncompressed EXE and unpacks it there, then it's executed from the memory block.

When you run a normal EXE windows does the same thing, reserves memory for the EXE, copies it there and launches it.

So there is no memory loss what so ever

Under linux, you cannot execute a file directly from memory, for what i've figured only the kernel can do that, so UPX has to unpack the EXE into a temp dir and run it from there. Acording to the UPX site, this is as fast as in windows cause most of the times the file is executed even before reaching the hardisk, because of the way linux handles files

[scurrier]

sorry everyone i had a link to an old version
it's now been updated so the link should give you the newest version
or just go to the web site and download it

but here is the link again

[url]http://www.vrman3d.com\DeskTopSnow\DeskTopSnow.zip[/url]

or the site address is
http://www.vrman3d.com/
at the site you can see a screen shot of it in action
well let me know if you find any bugs or just let me know if you like it, and if you can think of anything you would add to it

Sean

[scurrier]

hay we just won an 5 star award from Topshareware.com in 1 day for this screen saver thanks Fred for this awsome compiler

Sean

[dontmailme]

Works here, but I got the pink background on all of your sprites...

I guess they are 3d sprites as I have this problem with them all the time on my laptop.....

And a lot of Laptops have similar problems !

[scurrier]

now we have 3 awards from 3 different shareware sites thanks again to all


Sean