For some of you, Screen Antics (aka Johnny Castaway) might be a little before your time.  It’s even before my time, but it was introduced to me by my dad back when I was a little kid, and I thought it was the coolest screen saver ever.  To this day, anyone who knows what Screen Antics is, would agree that it’s probably the best screen saver in existence.  But there’s a problem:  Screen Antics was originally written for Windows 3.1 – it’s a 16-bit program.

While Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 all have 32-bit versions which will run 16-bit applications, Microsoft didn’t find the need to include the 16-bit subsystem on x64 systems.  Fortunately, there is still a way to get Johnny to run on your machine if you have a 64-bit Windows installation. (more…)