25) Where can I find the Dancin' Bear Screen Saver? (Grateful Dead)
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This article is from the Grateful Dead FAQ, by John J. Wood, Eric Nay and Ihor Slabicky tcgdd@hotmail.com with numerous contributions by others.
25) Where can I find the Dancin' Bear Screen Saver? (Grateful Dead)
The first readily available screen saver with any sort of a dancin'
bear was a violation of GDP/GDM's intellectual rights (according
to them :-). This screen saver was for PC's and clones, working in
the Windows environment. To get it runnin' ya need two files, dbear.zip
and vbrun200.zip. Once you get them, you need to unzip both , then put
the dbear files and vbrun200.dll into your Windows directory. If you
then open Windows and click on the desktop icon in the Control Panel
folder in the Main Folder of Windows, Dancin' Bear should be one of the
screen saver options. Now, to get the files, ya gotta grab 'em off a
ftp site. Remember that they are both binary, so set your file type to
binary before transferring them. Past locations of these files have been
as follows:
site dir file
nic.funet.fi /pub/msdos/windows/desktop dbear.zip
gatekeeper.dec.com /.f/micro/msdos/win3/desktop dbear.zip
winftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/desktop dbear.zip
wuarchive.wustl.edu /systems/ibmpc/win3/util vbrun200.zip
or vbrun300.exe
or
gatekeeper.dec.com /.f/micro/msdos/win3/util (same vbrun files)
Among other places, no doubt...
Good luck and enjoy. For Mac-users, there used to be no screen
saver available. If you have a copy of the After Dark
program containing the module Globe, and you also possess a Mac startup
screen that was either posted to the net or formerly available at the
ftp site then you could conceivably paste the bears from that startup
screen into Globe and make yourself one.
GDM has the official "Digital Dead Screen Saver"
(http://grateful.dead.net/merchandising/special/index.html) for
PCs and clones (80386 or greater) and Macintosh (Macintosh LCII or
greater). This screen saver features Grateful Dead Animation
including the random action of the Dancing Bears.
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