Windows screensavers are an iconic part of the PC's history, and Microsoft needs to modernize them yesterday. advertisement. ... All-time classics like 3D Pipes, 3D Flower Box, ...

Chen’s latest tale recounts how 3D Pipes, the classic screensaver came to be: Microsoft wanted to show off OpenGL within Windows NT 3.5, but wanted a way to do it that wasn’t an ad.

The winning screensaver would make it into the final Windows NT product. The OpenGL group went into overdrive, churning out 3D animations like 3D Text, 3D Maze, and 3D Flying Objects. But their ...

It takes the assets (they were extracted directly from ssmaze.scr) from Windows 95's iconic 3D Maze screensaver—the one that endlessly wanders a maze of brick walls in first-person perspective ...