Originally, I had envisioned a version 2.0 of what is currently available now... something with better backgrounds (the option to do gradient backgrounds, static images, a "transparent option" which would allow the desktop to show through and allow a "translucent" option to make it look like you could see the desktop through water).
The original version of the screen saver was started in Visual Basic 3.0 way back in the day, and as time went by, it was upgraded to Visual Basic 5.0 and "32 bit compatibility". Heh.
Today, we have Windows XP with Vista on the way, Visual Studio 2005, and the ability to make something work in 64 bits.
I'm not saying it has to be created in a Microsoft environment, but I always have envisioned the screen saver to be a learning tool of the programming language (as it was for me back in the day). Today I earn a living writing code, and I do credit a part of that to my curiousity in making a big, green, bucktoothed fish burp on the screen.
I really want to leave it up to the future successors of the program. It would be completely awesome if someone made a Dopefish Screen Saver look like something in the
Serene Screen Marine Aquarium... maybe even just make a 3D model of the Dopefish to fit into the program as a 3rd party hack.
There are no real limits and the ideas I have are endless, however the time I have to code it all is not. I'd hate to think that other people are not stepping up in creating something just because I already have made something.
I can use some of my web space to keep an open source repository available.
Anyway... just attempting to open up some dialog about the subject.
- Andre