Last Updated : 03.16.2001
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What is New : 03.16.2001

This is the latest build of the screen saver, working towards 1.0 status for the screen saver itself.

New in this version are the addition of some additional screens gleamed from the Clavius ones. One of the things you can pay attention to in the film is that there are screens on the Aries and Orion shuttles as well as on Clavius that are identical to some seen on USS Discovery. Thanks to Dennis Gonzales who continually keeps fereting out screen shots and examples for me to work from.

I'm sorry this is taking so long but it's really rather slow going to try and find the huge blocks of time to finish this thing off. Most of the screen receations take quite some head scratching to figure out how best to reproduce them and it's hard to start working if you know you'll have to stop prematurely on them.

Thanks to the people who correctly guessed the source of the new screens and Kevin Gray who correctly guessed it first. There are actually a few new references to the same film as well as many references hidden throughout the screen saver to other sci-fi or Kubrick films. One day I will go back through and actually count them all, but mainly they are there to fill in text or graphics that I can't quite read from screen shots from the film.

Hope you like this preview and I'll be trying to get it finished just as soon as possible...

What was New : 02.18.2001
First update to latest build of the screen saver, working towards 1.0 status for the screen saver itself. It's been much delayed since I began the update back in December.

If you compare it to the previous build you might only notice a few differences in the screens, but the entire thing has been reworked at the artwork level to streamline the file size in addition to the new screens added. A few are from the Clavius base screens actually (thanks to Dennis Gonzales for the screen shots) and two are "borrowed" from another famous sci-fi movie. Write me if you guess which ones and from what movie! I'm still tinkering with it before I attempt to generate the screen saver files them selves, but I thought you might be interested to see what I've been up to so far and what's coming.
Big thanks to...
Once again, thanks to Dennis Gonzales for help tracking down source images for the HAL screens, to Wally Fields for his rendition of HAL's voice, and Matt Willson for the wireframe source files of the Discovery's AE-35 antenna (scroll down to the second Discovery model to see Matt's work). Thanks also to Mike at bytesequence.com for creating the stand-alone versions of the HAL Flash Screen Saver for Mac and Windows.


Thanks also to anyone who has written in catching errors or making suggestions. I appreciate them all.
Technical Notes :
The screen saver itself only consists of the inner image area minus the CM1 gray border which is presented here for effect only.

I'm always looking for source images, stills or other images of HAL's screens from the film 2001. If you think you have some that is rare, please let me know.. Email at mental@digiscape.com