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\n\tIn Aquatic Realm, your screen becomes an underwater porthole as fish and other sea creatures swim back and forth across the seabed.
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\n\tIn Can of Worms, worms squirm and twist all over the screen while munching away at the desktop.
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\n\tIn Clocks, different types of clocks float across the screen displaying the time. This composite image shows all three of the main clocks.
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\n\tIn Fade Away, your desktop just fades away.
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\n\tIn Flying Toasters, the screen goes black and then the now infamous flying toasters glide across the screen interspersed with pieces of toast. You even get to choose how you like your toast.
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\n\tIn GeoBounce, a geometric shape of your choice spins and bounces across the screen.
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\n\tIn GraphStat, random scientific looking graphs appear on the screen.
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\n\tIn Hard Rain, rain drops hit the screen and create colorful circular splats all over the screen.
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\n\tIn Lasers, you get a front row seat as a laser light show creates bright patterns on the screen.
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\n\tIn Magic, constantly shifting patterns appear on the screen and dazzle you with their intricacy.
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\n\tIn Mondrian, the screen turns into a piece of Mondrian style art.
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\n\tIn Mountains, 3-D mountains from a planet of your choosing appear on the screen.
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\n\tIn Nocturnes, the screen goes black and then the eyes of various nocturnal creatures appear on the screen and watch you.
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\n\tIn Punch Out, the desktop is attacked by a hole puncher—the annoying clicking sound is optional.
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\n\tIn Rain Storm, a storm appears on the screen complete with wind and lightning.
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\n\tIn Satori, colorful tie-dye-like patterns slowly emerge and swirl on the desktop.
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\n\tIn Shapes, solid color geometric shapes simply fill the screen. Kind of boring now, but hey this was from 1991.
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\n\tIn Slide Show, you see a simple slide show of images of your choice. Here, you see some dinosaurs… get it?
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\n\tIn Spheres, a host of colorful spheres are rendered on the screen creating the illusion of dimensionality. Back then, this one was one of my favorites.
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\n\tIn Spiral Gyro, interesting patterns are drawn on the screen just like those created with the old Spyrograph toy.
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\n\tIn Stained Glass, random patterns appear on the screen. They actually look more like quilts or a kaleidoscope than stained glass, but very neat, nonetheless.
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\n\tIn Starry Night, a city skyline appears under a star filled sky with occasional flashes of lightning. The lights in the buildings go on and off and red beacon lights flash at the tops of some of the tallest buildings.
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\n\tIn String Theory, complex Moire\u00ad-like patterns swirl across the screen.
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\n\tIn Vertigo, colorful spirals and squares gradually grow on the screen and provide the dizzying optical illusion of depth as they move.
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\n\tIn Warp, you see a Star Trek effect, where colorful stars suddenly swirl past as the warp drive engages.
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\n\tIn Wrap Around, you see another set of Moire patterns swirl across the screen.
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\n\tIn Zot, bolts of lightning appear on the screen.
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My first computer was a Kaypro 16 \"luggable\" running MS-DOS 2.11 which I obtained while studying computer science in 1986. After two years, I discovered that I had a knack for writing documentation and shifted my focus over to technical writing.
