( The original download is at Message 994346:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59278&nowrap=true#994346

http://mail.dir.bg/~bil/SETI@home__Classic_SETI_for_fun__--BilBg--.rar
)


I forgot to include the "real" ScreenSaver file (SETIhome.scr) (which (usually) resides in Windows directory):

http://mail.dir.bg/~bil/SETIhome_Scr.rar
or
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-1b8bb304.html


Save the .rar
Extract to any directory (good place is SETI@home directory)
Run SETI@home.exe
(You can now Minimize SETI@home.exe to systray (click [X]))
Run SETIhome.scr


(Note:
If you have AutoCAD installed it "steals" (associates) .scr extension
(AutoCAD Script files have the same .scr extension as any ScreenSaver)

In this case (similar applies for any ScreenSaver you want to run manually):

Make Copy of SETIhome.scr
Rename the copy to SETIhome.scr.exe
Make Shortcut to SETIhome.scr.exe
Edit Shortcut Properties
- Add /s at the end of the command line:

  "C:\.......\SETI@home\SETIhome.scr.exe" /s 

- Change icon to greendis.ico
Run the Shortcut (while SETI@home.exe is in memory)
)


The display of the SETIhome.scr is the same as of SETI@home.exe (non-scalable graphic in the center of black screen):
(the original screen-shot was 1600x1200 - I crop it to 1024x768)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

It wasn't really a good screensaver (to save a CRT monitor), but that image brings me back a bit.

I got it to run also on a Win7/64 machine... Wow what a view, been a long long time.

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Eric

Team LambChop and Roelof Englebrecht of course gathered a lot of benchmark times for running a particular 0.417 AR WU. I've put a copy of that WU at http://users.westelcom.com/jsegur/SAHenh/TLCwork_unit.zip for anyone who wants to see what Moore's Law has done in the last 8 years or so.

The benchmark results of course are no longer available live, but the Wayback Machine has copies of some of the pages. Paste http://www.teamlambchop.com/bench/index.htm into the address field there to get started.

                                                                Joe

If you want to try another work_unit.sah (e.g. TLCwork_unit.zip from the post above by Josef W. Segur)
but preserve the progress of the current unit:

A) First solution:

1) Move the following files to a new empty directory:

work_unit.sah
result_header.sah
outfile.sah
key.sah
state.sah

2) Copy the new work_unit.sah to the SETI@home directory

3) Start SETI@home.exe


B) Second solution (better):

1) Make a Copy of the entire SETI@home directory

2) Copy the new work_unit.sah to the (copy of) SETI@home directory replacing/overwriting the previous work_unit.sah

3) Start SETI@home.exe

This way you can easy run either of the workunits and keep the progress of both.


(I also did try to run both workunits simultaneously but the second SETI@home.exe do not want to start (while another SETI@home.exe is in memory) on my single-core processor.

If you have multi-core CPU try to run both at the same time and see what happens.

Maybe some other tweak is needed for simultaneous run of two SETI@home.exe clients.
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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

If you want to play some more with Classic SETI
I collected 43 Classic SETI@home WorkUnits for you to try.

(two links - the same file (11.44 MB))

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-25e91f4b.html

http://mail.dir.bg/~bil/SETI@home__Classic__work_unit.sah.rar


( The original link where I found these 43 Classic SETI@home work_unit.sah files:
http://www.oldurn.com/seti@home/
)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

Thanks for the memories BilBg.

I remember at least two co-workers who signed up for S@H back in the day after noticing the screensaver on my lap top and asking "what the heck is that?".

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Anybody kept/has come across that doctored picture, that showed a smiley on the landscape?

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

Anybody kept/has come across that doctored picture, that showed a smiley on the landscape?

It's here.

It came from this page.

Martin

Thanks! :)

Close to 11 years. time flies...

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

I made a "New" ;) package based on SETI@home 3.08 (April 2003)

Contains:
SETI@home.exe
SETIhome.scr
2 work_unit.sah (in .zip) (find 43 more in Message 1015740 I "Reply" to)
(I also included again WU2WAV Version 0.5.7W by Jan Knutar)


SETI@home_3.08__BilBg.rar (1.3 MB, two links for the same file):

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-0529ddea.html

http://mail.dir.bg/~bil/SETI@home_3.08__BilBg.rar

(Just extract files and run SETI@home.exe - no install needed)



It appears that SETI@home 3.08 is about 40% faster than version 3.03 (December 2000)

Comparing % done for 2 hour CPU time (using same work_unit) on AMD K6-2+ @ 524 MHz, Win98









The same 8.78% progress took 20 minutes on AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2415 MHz, Vista
(120/20 = 6 times faster than on K6-2+)






Shortcuts on the Desktop:






( Notes:

The installer setiathome_win_3_08.exe can be found here:
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/setiathome_win_3_08.exe.791552.0.0.html
(5 links - some work, some no)

The command line client setiathome-3.08.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe can be found here:
http://www.oldurn.com/seti@home/
http://www.oldurn.com/seti@home/setiathome-3.08.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe
. ( Some AntiVirus programs "think" it is a malware (wrong)
. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=60922&nowrap=true#1023570
. )

The work_unit.sah used by default (and shown on the pictures above)
is TLCwork_unit.zip from Message 999172 by Josef W. Segur
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59278&nowrap=true#999172

The Wallpaper (from Scott Linder) used for the Desktop is from this page:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/wallpaper.php
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/user_images/swp2.jpg

)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

It appears that SETI@home 3.08 is about 40% faster than version 3.03 (December 2000)

I found v3.06 from March 2002 on an old HD. Let me know if you're interested in comparing these two versions to one in the middle to see how efficiency progressed.

Brent

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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;the point is to discover them."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

It appears that SETI@home 3.08 is about 40% faster than version 3.03 (December 2000)

I found v3.06 from March 2002 on an old HD. Let me know if you're interested in comparing these two versions to one in the middle to see how efficiency progressed.

Brent

OK :)

First move user_info.sah out of SETI@home directory (it can contain your email address)
Then compress SETI@home directory (.rar, .zip, .7z - the file will be less than 1 MB)
Use e.g. http://www.datafilehost.com/ to upload the file
Post the download link here or in Private message to me (as you prefer)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

Why can't they just bring back the original screen saver? Maybe as an option?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrSpWhEAahI[/url]

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Why can't they just bring back the original screen saver? Maybe as an option?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrSpWhEAahI[/url]

There is a wish list [ex profeso] in this forum---->Questions & Answers

You could get a better and more efficient attention over there.

I think they should restore it as well but with the latest updates of course.
It is like flying today a double decker from the WWI, like a Fokker-DR through a controlled airspace like Dallas-Fort Worth or Madrid-Barajas in Spain today at 12 noon in VFR (Visual Meteorological Conditions).There would be a lot of stress, not only for the single pilot, but for the controllers and the big guys/airliners who have very limited slots and schedules to comply with.
The same with SETI@home and BOINC.
Efficiency, costs, security and performances have to move at the same rythm along the same path, otherwise those with Quads, CUDA´s and optimized app. would whine all the time!LOL

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Why can't they just bring back the original screen saver? Maybe as an option?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrSpWhEAahI[/url]

I second this, I looked for the wish list thingy, but found nothing....

I have been told I am a little slow sometimes though..... :D

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Yeah, the goof old days, i will never forget the long nights looking at this screen and waiting for the magic signal :)


А, ние сме от един отбор, а :)

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Dell XPS L702x
smokin' weed and searching for aliens .... ;]
TRUSTNO1

I'm still trying to finish a Classic work unit from 2002 on my old Power Mac.

No, Just kidding, but I do remember they took like 100 hours or something. Honestly, I like the old one better. The new one lacks character.

The Classic one is just cool. I felt like I was at Arecibo or the VLA when I ran it.

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It appears that SETI@home 3.08 is about 40% faster than version 3.03 (December 2000)

I found v3.06 from March 2002 on an old HD. Let me know if you're interested in comparing these two versions to one in the middle to see how efficiency progressed.

Brent

OK :)

<snip>

Sorry, but no go. The files were corrupted when I went to work with them. :(
I'll look around some more and post again if I find another old copy which works.

Brent

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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;the point is to discover them."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

That's how I started with SETI@Home, I so much liked this screen saver, that ii was always turned on, not so good for time to complete a Work Unit.
Unfortunatly 'lost' my old hardware, while moving to another place.
BTW, you've done a nice job BilBG, by reviving this. ;-)

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