Awesome Screensaver Found on a 90s Lockheed Martin PC
LGR Blerbs
Jan 31, 2022 14:00
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This excellent 3D aircraft aerobatics screen saver (flyby2.scr) was found on a crusty old Windows 95 computer originally belonging to Lockheed Martin. And I don't know much more than that! Does it have anything to do with Blue Impulse as the icon suggests? UPDATE: It is related to the YSFlight simulator from the late 90s! Here's a comment from its creator, Soji Yamakawa. "Wow! That's a pleasant surprise! My friend sent me a link to this video. Yes, I wrote it. That was one of my first screensavers. I believe this one was based on 3D Graphics Library called Blue Impulse (obviously named after the Japanese Aerobatic Team) that I developed for my master's research project. I should still have source code somewhere in my backup. And, some of the airplane models in this screensaver are in YSFLIGHT, too."
Download the original screensaver here: https://archive.org/details/flyby2
Here's a speed-fixed version for faster CPUs: https://archive.org/details/flyby2_202201
Here's the speed-fixed version with widescreen/high res support: https://archive.org/details/flyby2_4k
And here are the original screensaver source files: https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2
Music at the end is 'Rich in the 80s' by DivKid
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