The Matrix Desktop (beta 0.2)

Better than a Screensaver

Let's face it: the official Matrix Screensaver is seriously bad. It looks as if a child made it one afternoon with Disney's Screensaver Studio.

Our alternative, The Matrix Desktop, runs the animated Matrix code on your Windows desktop. It's amazingly cool and can be left running all the time since it uses virtually no processor power.

So, if you are looking for the Matrix Screensaver, Matrix animated wallpaper, Matrix animated background, Screensaver or Animated Matrix Code, download now (at bottom of page) and try it.

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Requirements

If your computer is less than a decade old and running Windows, it'll be okay. But here are the detailed requirements:

• OS: Windows 98 and above (including Vista).
• Computer: 200MHz or above.
• Graphics Card: A 3D Graphics Card which is less than 10 years old with at least 16MB of memory on the card.
• nVidia Cards Tested: TNT, GeForce 2, 3 and 4.
• ATI Cards Tested: Radeon 9000, 9800
• Matrox Cards Tested (G450, G550): These cards do not support features required by Matrix Desktop, therefore Matrix Desktop will not run with either of these cards.
• DirectX: version 7 or above.

Installation

No installation necessary. No files are installed or modified.

Simply download The Matrix Desktop (less than 100k) and run it.

Copy the .exe file or a shortcut to your startup folder if you want it to run each time Windows starts.

Note

• This is 'beta' software.
• Before you run this beta software for the very first time, it would be advisable to have first closed all other programs you are using (as a crash may cause you to lose your work). Once the software has run once without crashing, you should be okay subsequently. If you do experience a crash, let us know.
• As with most software, you use this program at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for any consequence of this software's use - whether direct or indirect.
• This software won't run if you have a video, DVD or TV channel playing. Start The Matrix Desktop first and your video, DVD and TV applications should work normally after that.
• The Matrix Desktop does not change your computer configuration - so, if it is not running, your computer will behave as it did before The Matrix Desktop was ever installed onto your hard drive.
• The software is free to download from this site and use on your computer, but must not be re-distributed without our express permission.
• This software has not been tested on a wide variety of computers, however, it has been extensively tested on a small selection of computers and a number of different graphics cards. If this software does not work with your computer and you have a fairly modern machine, let us know what graphics card you have, which operating system you are using and any error messages you receive - we will do our best to fix any problems.
• With this beta version, you will need to manually change any full-size desktop pictures to smaller images or none at all. If you have a stretched or tiled background, The Matrix Desktop will center the picture for you and restore it to the previous setting when you close The Matrix Desktop.
• Check back every decade for updates. (Link to this page, not the exe file, as the exe file location will change from time to time.)
• Welcome to the Matrix.

Download The Matrix Desktop

Click to download the exe (92 k) (no install - this is the program)

orClick to download the zip (36 k) (same as the exe, but zipped up)