I have managed to get the Johnny Castaway screen saver to run on Windows XP by creating a small application in Visual Basic that takes control of the screen saver.  There are 2 files, named JohhnyCastawayXP.SCR and JOHNCAST.BAT.  These files should be extracted into C:\WINDOWS and users should then be able to use the screen saver as normal.


Johnny Castaway was originally written for Windows 3.1 users who mainly worked with screen resolutions of 640 x 480, so at that time, the screen saver filled the entire screen.  Today, most people work with screen resolutions of 1024x768 and upwards which means that the screen saver appears in a small window in the centre of the screen.  To overcome this, the program that I have created also takes control of the screen resolution so that Johnny Castaway fills the entire screen.  I hope that it is of use to all of Johnny's fans!



The only assumption made by my application is that the program files are installed into C:\WINDOWS.  This was the default location that the install program placed the files into when I ran it (I downloaded the install from http://store.yahoo.com/screensavers1/johnnycastaway.html).



Regards



Gary Neilson




