

If you have some recommends to make this tutorial easy'er don't be afraid to comment and help this to get a better tutorial!Įxtract "ScreenLauncher.scr" manually to C:\Windows\System32Īfter this you goto Windows 11 settings, and type screensaver into the searchbox, click "Change screensaver", and now you should see the Screen Saver Settings. Now goto your screensaver settings and choose "Screen Launcher"Ĭlick on "Browse" and select: "C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74\dosbox.exe"Ĭlick on Preview, check if it works, if it works, you have done exactly everything right, and you should see the screensaver in like 5 seconds. I assumed you extraced dosbox.zip to your C drive, if it is somewhere else just change the directory. Goto: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\DOSBox and open: "dosbox-0.74.conf" with Notepad or any other text editor you use.Īt the bottom of this file (after ) put: Start DOSBox for 1 time and in the "Command Prompt": type: "exit". One problem is that it doesn't run on 64 bit systems, except if you do the following!ĭownload dosbox.zip and extract it to C:\ (you will get C:\dosbox) It thus distinguished itself from the similarly popular 1989 After Dark series of screensavers, which featured flying toasters and starry nights, among others, and notably had a modular system that allowed third parties to add new themes and animations to the series.

I made this one for Windows XP/Vista/7/8(.1). When it was first released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, Johnny Castaway was the first screensaver to tell a story. This toturial works for Windows and Linux (wine). johnny castaway is a screensaver released in 1992 by sierra on line dynamix, and marketed under the screen antics brand as this amazing survival story of real. Okay, for some of the people this might be nostalgia, for people like me. It's a 16 bit screensaver, which is really awesome. Johnny Castaway is a screensaver which is brought by Sierra in like 1992/1993.
