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:
“The savage soul of game is up at once—
The pack full-opening various, the shrill horn
Resounded from the hills, the neighing steed
Wild for the chase, and the loud hunter’s shout—
O’er a weak, harmless, flying creature, all
Mixed in mad tumult and discordant joy.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“The windows were then closed and the steam turned on. There was a sign up saying that no one could smoke, but you couldn’t help it. You were lucky if you didn’t burst into flames.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)