Relive the glory days of poor quality CRT monitors.
@dot_scr is a Twitter bot created by Greg Kennedy that records and shares videos of Windows 3.1 screensavers. You can view the list of screensavers here.
Author explains the implementation details:
The high level procedure is:
- Choose a screensaver “unit” (driver class) from the collection of available units
- Unpack a fresh Windows 3.1 installation from .zip, as well as the “payload” for the screensaver we wish to run
- Run an edit function for config files in the staging area, setting the screensaver to launch and applying Windows themes
- Launch (headless) a patched DOSBox binary, which is hacked to begin recording at a certain time and then exit after someduration
- Use FFmpeg to compress the output into something suitable for Twitter
- Upload the result video and post it in a tweet
Stefan
