Unofficial Aggie 1999 Bonfire Screen Saver
Current Version: 1.1
Screen saver version can be found on the about dialog just off the configuration dialog
General
This is my attempt to create a tasteful tribute to the 12 Texas A&M students who were killed when the Texas A&M bonfire stack collapsed at 2:42 A.M. on Nov 18, 1999. It is a Microsoft Windows-based screen saver that shows a series of background images and overlays images of the fallen students with their names. Most, if not all of the images were taken from the memorial edition of the Texas Aggie Association of Former Students magazine.
How much does it cost?
This screen saver is free for anyone who wants it. I only ask that you don't modify it or charge anything other than a reasonable media fee for it. Please contact me if there's anything special that you'd like to do with it. We can probably work something out.
If you really want to make a donation please consider making it to the Bonfire Relief Fund or the Bonfire Memorial Endowed Fund or to one of the individual funds. Please do not send me any money.
System Requirements
- A Pentium-class processor
- 32 Megs of RAM*
- 1 Meg of hard drive space
- A graphics card capable of displaying high or true color (32000 colors or more)
- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4.0, or 2000
*It will work with 16 Megs but it may page heavily (access your hard disk frequently)
Download
You can get the screen saver from the download page.
Installation
Download version
- Double click on the archive (Bonfire99_v11.exe).
- Follow the instructions
Diskette version
If you receive a diskette version follow these instructions. If you would like to make a diskette version from a downloaded version, follow the steps in FAQ #6.
Method 1.
- Stick the diskette in your diskette drive
- Click on start menu/Settings/Control Panel
- Double click on "Add/Remove Programs"
- Single click on "Add New Programs" and follow the instructions
Method 2.
- Stick the diskette in your diskette drive
- Double click on "My Computer"
- Double click on your diskette drive
- Double click on Setup.exe and follow the instructions
Feedback
If you have any questions, comments, bugs, pictures you'd like to see in future versions, etc... please email me at bonfire@cyberbrinedreams.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
- The screen saver screen colors are really messed up (like this)
- My "Colors" field does not have a high or true color option
- I run other software that requires me to not use high or true color modes on my computer
- How do I change the screen saver to the bonfire one?
- The colors on the preview screen look funny under Windows 2000
- How do I make a diskette version from the download version?
Related Links
Version Information
- Version 1.0 - November 27 2000 - Initial version
- Version 1.1 - November 30 2000 - Incorporate feedback, minor bug fixes, installer now installs screen saver, primitive multimonitor support, and thanks dialog
