32-bit versions (i.e. all except Windows 3.1) are network-aware: if you have two or more computers on a network, you can get them to pass the film between them. No kidding. As far as we know, no other screen-saver in the world does this. It even works if one machine is a PC and the other is an Acorn. The networking features of the screen-saver require a TCP/IP Winsock implementation.  

The Acorn version is in BBC Basic and is provided so you can see how to use animations.   

Click here to download a Zip archive (122K) containing the PC version, for Windows 3.1 or 3.11, and Windows 95 or NT.  The traditional film to use is this (40K) tumbling hourglass, but for for some others see our Download Animations.

 The HUM.TCA and T-POT.TCA example films in the PlayBack archive were done by Don Slaven, who has kindly said we can give them away with this software. 

 If you make a copy of either PlayBack or !ScreenSav, please copy the entire relevant archive, without modifying any of it. Of course, you're free to distribute films you've made yourself as well! 

 !ScreenSav is also intended as a working example of how to use animations in your own Acorn programs, and thus you can copy or adapt any sections of the program which you feel you need. In fact, it's not really intended as an example of how to write a screen-saver. A "genuine" screen-saver should in theory have a much smaller memory footprint -- by not being in BBC Basic for a start, and by not holding the film in memory all the time.