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On The Road Again marks the first anniversary of the release of the award-winning (and infamous) Opus and Bill Screen Saver. This includes 16 fully-animated new modules of politically incorrect humour. It lets loose another batch of loopy animation's to better hijack the computer screen that's expected will cause many hours of relentless entertainment. Where else can you watch Opus play Tarzan, Bill cause pileups on the Information Highway, or relive those special moments of the Winter Olympics? Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat journey the globe - and the binary - blacktop for adventure. Be they at home eating pistachios in their underwear, or attempting to hang-glide, Opus and Bill are never far from disaster. While touring St. Peter's Square, Bill spews a hairball, which grows to monstrous proportions and runs him down. Closer to home, "The Butt Boys" demonstrates a unique method of cleaning the PC monitor. Meanwhile, in "Tax This!", an Internal Revenue Service Emergency Squad foils Opus' attempts to commandeer the sacred American greenback. The original release of Opus 'n Bill achieved worldwide fame with the banned "Death Toasters" Module in which Opus the Penguin blew a flying toaster out of the sky with his hunting rifle. The product was reintroduced in November following the resolution of a court action involving Berkeley Systems. The "Flying Toaster War" controversy was covered in more than 1,500 newspaper articles and featured on national television. On The Road Again also includes usability improvements to Intermission, the screen-saver engine. The user interface has been reorganized and improved, including the addition of "thumbnail" views of each module to assist in set-up. This new version 5.0 retains the standard Intermission features of password protection, synchronisation with network password support, multimedia sound support, and the ability to run modules from other popular screen savers including Delrina's original Opus 'n Bill, The Far Side, and The Flintstones. All 16 modules are fall 256-colour animation for incredibly detailed (up to 800 x 600 resolution) images. |
