{"id":168,"date":"2012-10-05T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/?p=168"},"modified":"2020-02-19T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:54:00","slug":"windows-3-animated-backgrounddesktopwallpaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/2012\/10\/05\/windows-3-animated-backgrounddesktopwallpaper\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2610 Windows 3 Animated Background\/Desktop\/Wallpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 1995, I visited some family in Los Angeles. My uncle had a computer with Windows 3 (or some version thereof since Windows 95 had not been released yet).<\/p>\n

In Windows 3, there was no desktop or wallpaper like in later versions; instead you could set it to a simple pattern<\/a> (still possible in later versions before XP) like hounds-tooth or bricks (interestingly, there seems to be next to nothing available on the Internet about this anymore; no screenshots and almost no pages).<\/p>\n

I recall being amused when I found a program (on the still young \u201cworld-wide web\u201d) that would actually let you set an animated background. It was smooth and fluid and was quite an amazing thing at the time. The program was a background program and did not run in a window.<\/p>\n

If I recall correctly, it had several built-in animations including one of a light-orange-pink background over which storks flew towards the top-left, possibly with some light stuff floating in the \u201cbackground\u201d (they were actually animated and flapped their wings, not simply translated coordinates). The storks were somewhat simplified, black-line drawings.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I\u2019ve tried finding it again a few times but never could. Worse, it\u2019s become harder and harder over time as new programs came out and polluted the search results.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping that someone remembers this software and knows some useful information like the author or where to download it.<\/p>\n

(It\u2019s not ScreenPaper<\/a>. That was created in 1997 to let you set a screensaver as the Windows 95\/NT4 background. This was *at least* two years earlier for Windows 3 and I\u2019m almost certain it had these animations built-in\u2014I don\u2019t recall any stork screensavers for Windows 3. It\u2019s also not After Dark which was a screensaver while this was a program.)<\/p>\n

\"Normal<\/a>
Normal Windows 3 desktop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mock-up<\/a>
Mock-up of \u201cFlying Stork\u201d animation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mystery<\/a>
Mystery program running (imagine the\u2014approximately accurately sized\u2014storks flapping their wings and flying towards the top-left)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


<\/p>\n

Unsolved<\/a>, Windows<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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