AMC Screen Saver Construction Set 2.0a patch 45

Do you have a bunch of pictures that you would like to put together in a beautiful looking screensaver? If you answered “Yes” to that question, you will be glad to know that there are a myriad of applications out there that provide this sort of functionality. Some of these applications do an okay job; others do a properly good job.

The Alchemy Mindworks-developed application Screen Saver Construction Set definitely falls in the later category, in the category of applications that do a properly good job. With this application you will be able to create multimedia screensavers for Windows and you will be able to control every aspect of the screensaver creation process.

You can use a variety of image formats to create your screensaver. Screen Saver Construction Set provides support for the most popular formats, such as JPG, PCX, TGA, BMP, GIF and PNG. You can also use a variety of audio formats and add sound to your screensaver. Screen Saver Construction Set provides support for the most popular audio formats out there.

Screen Saver Construction Set comes with Alchemy Mindworks’ ANIMAL development environment. This is a properly powerful development environment that you should be able to use with ease, even if you do not have some serious computer programming chops to back you up. The tools that ANIMAL puts at your disposal will allow you to create a screensaver that does anything you can think of.

Screen Saver Construction Set’s interface is deceptively simple. At first glance it looks incredibly clean and sparse. But when you start to dig around you uncover a wealth of options. If you can’t find your way around the interface, or if you can’t figure out what all the options do, you will be pleased to know that Screen Saver Construction Set comes with extensive documentation and tutorials. According to Alchemy Mindworks, you should be “up to speed in less than 12 seconds.” Even if it takes longer than that, it will be worth it since Screen Saver Construction Set is a properly powerful tool.

Before you get Screen Saver Construction Set and put it to the test, take a look at these technical details:
Download – the download weighs in at some 8.5MB.
Installation – you can install Screen Saver Construction Set on the old but powerful Windows XP, on the much avoided Windows Vista, and on the latest and greatest, Windows 7.
Limitations – Screen savers made with an unregistered copy of Screen Saver Construction Set may not be distributed. Screensavers created with the trial version only work on the machine Screen Saver Construction Set is installed on. You will see a reminder to register Screen Saver Construction Set when you exit the application.

Pros

• Properly powerful utility to create screensavers
• Supports the most popular image and audio formats
• Nice, simple interface
• ANIMAL development environment
• Extensive documentation and tutorials

Cons

• Free to try

About Alchemy Mindworks
Details on Alchemy Mindworks and the applications it has to offer are available here.

AMC Screen Saver Construction Set has been reviewed by George Norman on 07 Sep 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated AMC Screen Saver Construction Set 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent