Flying Windows is a screensaver included with the 3.1x and 9x versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The screensaver is similar to Starfield, in which the users computer has the view out of the cockpit of a spaceship travelling through deep space at high speed. The Flying Windows screensaver gives the effect of a spaceship hurtling through a field of multi-coloured Windows logos at a speed the user can set.
The Flying Windows screensaver makes use of the standard PC 16 colours because of when it was introduced. Flying Windows is available on Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and Me only. It can be installed on other versions of Windows only by copying it over manually from a Windows 9x/Me PC.
Both Starfield and Flying Windows use nearly identical code. The only difference is that Starfield draws white squares while Flying Windows draws the Windows logo from the Wingdings font.
Famous quotes containing the words flying and/or windows:
“We saw by the flitting clouds, by the first russet tinge on the hills, by the rushing river, the cottages on shore, and the shore itself, so coolly fresh and shining with dew, and later in the day, by the hue of the grape-vine, the goldfinch on the willow, the flickers flying in flocks, and when we passed near enough to the shore, as we fancied, by the faces of men, that the fall had commenced.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but they read the word of God by it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)