WARP STARFIELD

🌌 The flight — what you see

The dive runs on a cycle of about 48 seconds, and it never stops cycling:

• The dive — the painting slowly grows around you, a long calm zoom aimed at the nebula's glowing heart, between the planets. Earth, Mars, and Jupiter sweep outward past you as you fall in.
• The streaks — 340 stars stream radially outward from the same heart, each drawn as a short line of light, brightening and thickening as it nears you. Their speed breathes on a slow pulse, so the flight feels alive instead of mechanical.
• The punch-through — near the end of each cycle the heart's light swells, a sheet of bright core-light washes over the scene, and in that flash you cross the core: the wide painting is back and the dive begins again. Measured, the loop lands exactly where it started — no seam, no pause.
• The saucer — every minute or so, far away and small, a saucer crosses high in the frame: dark hull, faint cyan rim, three small lights breathing in sequence. It does not stop. It does not wave.

And it behaves like a proper screensaver: fullscreen when it starts, easy on the machine (it caps itself at 30 frames per second), and gone the instant you come back — any key, any click, or a real move of the mouse. A tiny mouse tremble is forgiven, so a bumped desk doesn't end the flight.

🖼️ The painting

One fixed painting carries the whole saver — a deep field with the three planets under violet and teal nebulas, and its bright heart as the dive's target. It fills your whole screen at any size, fitted edge to edge: no black bars, nothing stretched out of shape. Because the dive is a true zoom into the picture — measured, not a trick of overlays — the planets genuinely grow as you approach the heart.

🎛️ Settings — there aren't any

No speed dial, no color choices, no star count, no options panel — not hidden, not missing: none, by design. The flight was tuned once, carefully, and it simply runs. If a settings button ever asks, it tells you exactly that, in plain words. The only choices are your operating system's own: whether Warp Starfield is your screensaver, and how long your machine waits idle before it starts.

🤝 Honest, or nothing

• It is one painting, and it loops. About every 48 seconds the flight punches through the core and starts the dive again — a single still image cannot zoom forever, and the punch-through is built to read as part of the flight, not a glitch.
• It shows nothing useful — deliberately. No clock, no date, no notifications. It is a window to sit in front of, not a dashboard.
• It makes no sound. Ever. Music, if you want it, comes from your own player.
• It doesn't manage itself. It won't set your idle time, add itself to any startup list, or update itself. Setting it up is a thing you do once, in your system's own screensaver settings — the manual below walks through both systems, step by step.

🔒 Your machine, your business

No accounts — nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign into. No network — the program never connects to anything; there is no server for it to talk to. No telemetry, no analytics, no update checks: nothing about you or your machine is collected, because nothing is collected at all. The program, its painting, and its source code sit in one folder on your machine — and deleting that folder deletes all of it.

⬇️ Downloads

The long code under each button is a fingerprint of the exact file, for people who want to check their download is untouched — you do not need it to install or run Warp Starfield.

✨ NEW — the Multi Lang Update, now in English · Español · Deutsch (2026-10-30)

The Multi Lang Update is Warp Starfield's language edition — the confusion-fix edition, the same flight, with its help, settings and install helper now in three languages. It sits beside the original v1.0 below; both stay available. What changed:

• The Linux "make it real" flow now works. The package ships the xscreensaver hook (make-it-my-screensaver.py) that adds Warp to xscreensaver's list and picks it — it saves a spare copy of your settings first and removes nothing. (The v1.0 package's notes promised this hook but did not include it; this edition includes it, proven end to end.)
• "It's on" now speaks. Every install path ends with the check that tells you it worked.
• Help travels with the program. A plain-words HOW-TO-USE (6 topics) ships inside both packages, and the Windows zip adds README-Windows.txt explaining the .scr-vs-.exe choice at the point of choice.
• --help is help now — it prints the how-to and exits, instead of silently launching fullscreen.
• Removing it is written down — uninstall guidance inside both packages and in the Removing section below, naming exactly the saver's own files.
• Settings can no longer fail silently on Windows.
• Nothing of yours is ever deleted: this edition was swept for delete paths — zero delete calls in any shipped file; the hook's only write is your xscreensaver settings file, backup first.
• The flight itself is unchanged — the starfield engine is byte-for-byte the shipped v1.0 flight.
• Now in English, Español and Deutsch: the 🌐 globe selector in Settings (Linux: ./WarpStarfield --settings — Windows: Settings…) switches Help, the settings box and the Linux screensaver helper between languages, saved on your own computer. The flight itself has no words in any language — and it is byte-for-byte the shipped flight (proof frame identical).

🪟 Windows — the Multi Lang Update

Download the Multi Lang Update for Windows — FREE

A zip holding the screensaver (WarpStarfield.scr), its plain-program twin (WarpStarfield.exe), README-Windows.txt and HOW-TO-USE.txt — each in English, Spanish and German.
Install: save WarpStarfield.scr, then right-click it → Install. Windows opens Screen Saver Settings — check Warp Starfield is picked, set how long to wait, and press OK. Now it is on.
Prefer no install? WarpStarfield.exe — the same flight as a plain program: double-click it to watch now, nothing gets installed.
Want a look first? In Screen Saver Settings, click Preview — the flight plays until you touch a key.
To check it worked: open Screen Saver Settings again — if the box at the top says "WarpStarfield", it is on.
SHA-256: 6c42ba385dba77cce0e719f9fc6011bb05d8402cf6fd75585fd564500c1a9477 (zip, 39.8 MB)

🐧 Linux — the Multi Lang Update

Download the Multi Lang Update for Linux — FREE

Right-click the downloaded file and choose 'Extract Here', open the new WarpStarfield folder, right-click inside it and choose 'Open Terminal Here', then type ./WarpStarfield and press Enter — the flight starts.
The package includes plain-words install notes in English, Spanish and German, and an xscreensaver hook (make-it-my-screensaver.py) that adds Warp to xscreensaver's list and picks it — it saves a spare copy of your settings first and removes nothing.
Want a look in a window instead of fullscreen? Run ./WarpStarfield --windowed.
To check it worked: if WarpStarfield is ticked/selected in your Screensaver list, it is on.
SHA-256: 6f29d0ba232a2eb365a5c21682be4f38a8834151d9a2cdcd6d9227961e7f416b (tarball, 26.9 MB)

🚀 The screensaver — v1.0 (the original release, 2026-10-29)

The original v1.0 downloads stay available below, exactly as released and tested.

🪟 Windows

A real Windows screensaver (.scr) — plus a plain program twin for anyone who just wants to run it.

Download WARP STARFIELD for Windows — FREE

Install: save WarpStarfield.scr, then right-click it → Install. Windows opens Screen Saver Settings with WARP STARFIELD picked, and the warp begins on your idle screen.
SHA-256: 2cb9b8aa61355ab6cfe6c91bcdddfbc301ea25c618998c324bdf4a4b1254ad03 (screensaver, 19.2 MB)
Prefer no install? The same program as a plain app — run it and the warp starts: WarpStarfield.exe
SHA-256: 2cb9b8aa61355ab6cfe6c91bcdddfbc301ea25c618998c324bdf4a4b1254ad03 (same program, .exe name)

🐧 Linux

Download WARP STARFIELD for Linux — FREE

Unpack it, run ./WarpStarfield — fullscreen flight until you touch a key. The package includes plain-words install notes and the full source code. (Its notes mention an xscreensaver hook that v1.0 did not include — the hook itself ships in the Multi Lang Update above.)
SHA-256: 159607b74b5bfc03c4115d0b842b30a5398c39d11a3922ae1bd4a756f65cbe8d (tarball, 21.9 MB)

Built Linux first, like every 777 Software program — the Windows edition is built from the same proven source.

FREE — and it stays free.

📖 The manual (PDF)

The manual covers what the flight is, what's in the download, and exactly how to set it up as your real screensaver on Linux or Windows.

WARP STARFIELD — How It Works (PDF)
The saver manual — what it is, what's in the download, setting it up on Linux and Windows, the flight, the honest word on settings, and the limits. 5 pages · SHA-256: af263861c6c53fff5e9cd963c5e0a95c2866cfb2237f65e873de87d38a8e3826

🧹 Removing it

Windows: open Screen Saver Settings, pick a different saver or 'None', press OK, then delete the WarpStarfield files. Linux: pick a different saver in your Screensaver settings first (or run ./make-it-my-screensaver.py --remove), then delete the WarpStarfield folder — that is all of it, nothing is left behind.