psychotherapeutic screensaver
and desktop enhancer
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NEWS
[4 May 2005] - Drempels v1.5 source code is here!
[6 Feb 2005] - Drempels v1.5 is here.
WHAT IS DREMPELS?
Drempels makes colorful, swirling, hallucinogenic patterns that resemble a hurricane or tornado.
It normally runs in your Windows background or "desktop", replacing your old still-image wallpaper
with gently-animating visuals... and meanwhile, you can use your computer just like you normally would.
It uses very little CPU overhead - so little that it even runs smoothly on a 233 MHz system!
Drempels can also be used as a screensaver; in this mode, it goes fullscreen (like a normal screensaver)
instead of rendering to the desktop/background.
Drempels works on Windows 9x, ME, NT, and 2000. It requires DirectX 5.0 or later and an MMX-capable processor.
DOWNLOAD / INSTALLATION
STEP 1 of 2: [ DOWNLOAD Drempels 1.5 here* (529 kb) ]
STEP 2 of 2: [ Read 'drempels.txt' while it downloads ]
ARCHIVE
[ Drempels v1.0 with 4 textures ]
[ Drempels v1.1b with 4 textures ]
[ Drempels v1.1b solo ]
[ Drempels v1.2b with 4 textures ]
[ Drempels v1.2b solo ]
[ Drempels v1.3 with 4 textures ]
[ Drempels v1.3 solo ]
[ Drempels v1.3 self-installing ] (5.7 megs) - includes texture collection #2
[ Drempels v1.4 self-installing ] (529 kb)
[ Drempels v1.5 self-installing ] (529 kb)
[ Texture Collection #2 ] - beautiful images from (dead link) Infinite Fish (140 kb)
[ Texture Collection #3 ] - some textures from the (dead link) propaganda collection (340 kb)
[ Texture Collection #4 ] - some more textures courtesy of P.i.x.l.F.u.x.a. and Martyn Parker (330 kb)
[ also, more cool textures at (dead link) rifetech.com ]
SCREENSHOTS
[ animated .gif screenshot ]
[ still image screenshot ]
OLD NEWS
[5 Apr 2001] - Drempels v1.4 has arrived! Check out the new features:
- Finally runs in the system tray
- Easier to use: Drempels now automatically runs in fullscreen mode when invoked as a screensaver, and in desktop mode when you invoke it yourself
- Drempels can now automatically launch at Windows startup
- Ugly pink color is gone forever
- Added user-customizable overlay filter color (Desktop Mode)
- Jpeg images are now supported
- Images no longer have to be 256x256
- Added 'Suspend' feature for Desktop Mode
- Now uses the NSIS Installer w/only a 40kb footprint!
[30 May 2001] - Some cool textures
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I've received a lot of links to the royalty-free 'propaganda' textures lately, so I picked out some good ones
and bundled them up as Texture Collection 3.
( note that the above link is to a nicely packaged subset of the textures;
the official website for the textures is at http://propaganda.tilez.org/ )
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[14 Mar 2001] - a Drempels skin for Winamp; some cool textures
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Jim has posted a very cool Winamp skin here that lets you see Drempels through Winamp.
Also, Darin posted a link to a very cool texture site you should check out. Don't forget, only 256x256 textures work with Drempels (for now); for non-256x256 textures you'll need a batch converter such as the indespensible Irfanview. (Download a few hundred textures of varying sizes, then use the 'Batch conversion' feature of Irfanview to convert them all to 256x256, 16.7-million color BMP or TGA files with just a few clicks.)
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[19 Feb 2001] - Drempels discussion forums have been created!
[15 Feb 2001] - Tip: Instant access to Drempels or the Config Panel
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Here's a tip: to create a shortcut to Drempels on your desktop, just right-click
some empty place on the desktop, select "create shortcut", and find DREMPELS.SCR
in your windows (or system[32]) directory. Now you can double-click this 'shortcut' icon
whenever you want to manually launch Drempels... or, you can simply right-click on the
shortcut and select 'configure' to go straight to the Drempels config panel. Happy tweaking... =)
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[22 Jan 2001] - Drempels is now self-installing!
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Thanks to the generous efforts of Filip de Vos, Drempels is now self-installing!
All you have to do is download the executable file and follow the instructions - no more unzipping, finding your System folder, installing textures, setting your screensaver, etc... instead, just a few easy clicks.
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[8 Jan 2001] - Drempels v1.3 has arrived. New features:
- Desktop Mode is now 20% faster
- New keys to change animation speed and lock the behavior
- Added key to pause animation, to temporarily conserve CPU
- Vastly improved compatibility for most video cards
- For a complete list of new features, see drempels.txt
[5 Dec 2000] - Drempels v1.2 has arrived. New features:
- New DESKTOP MODE lets you run it as your windows wallpaper!
- New low- and medium-quality rendering modes speed things up dramatically
- Added high-quality texture mode (bilinear texel interpolation)
- Added support for BMP's (now you can use TGA or BMP files).
- Added more keys to control drempels (see help screen or drempels.txt)
- For a complete list of new features, see drempels.txt
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