73 rare and beautiful images & new screen saver engine.
11/01/2006
The Assyrian screen saver is here. There is no animation. It is a
collection of Assyrian art, reliefs, paintings (including most
of the paintings from the SOOR-GAA-DAA (calendar) that have been
scanned in piece by piece and then assembled). There are 73 images with
the TUSH-EE-TAA (history) of each image on top. The program is
the best screen saver I have seen that handles images. It blends
each one in wonderfully. It also has many options. The new engine allows wider captions, calander, new transitions, and support for dual screens.
The screen saver takes very little resources. 4 megs hard drive space for the program and 6.5
megs hard drive space for the images. Each image loaded is around 100k in memory.
The question of space and resources is not an issue.
INSTRUCTIONS
Windows XP/2000
Download Program & Image file, which is combined in one file. Click here to download program & images (11MB).
Double-click and run the AssyrianScreenSaver.exe file. This will uncompress the files to a directory C:\ASSYRIAN\IMAGES.
Program should automatically install & configure itself. If not, continue to step 4.
Start the screen saver and click on "SELECT IMAGE/COLLECTION" button.
Click "CREATE COLLECTION".
Choose the directory by clicking on "C:\" folder, then the "C:\ASSYRIAN\IMAGES" directory.
click the "CREATE" button. "YES", then "OK".
The collection will be automatically described as "UM-NAA D AA-TOR - Assyrian Art".
Take the checkmark off of "Second Nature - Autumn 2006" .
Right-click on a favorite image and set as "desktop wallpaper".
Check "Enable Screen Saver"
Take checkmark off of "Display images in random order".
Check "Stretch images to fit screen".
Check "Show desktop calendar"
Your all set with the screen saver configuration.
Now choose a black background for your desktop. Right-click your desktop. Select "Desktop" tab. On the bottom-right corner, click the color and select black. Click "Ok". You're all set.
NOTE: If you have downloaded the Assyrian Screen Saver program before, delete the C:\ASSYRIAN\IMAGES FOLDER.
Learn about your culture. Test yourself.
Q: What language do you speak? And name the most famous native speaker.
Q: How many capitals did Assyria have? Name them in order.
Q: Who move what capital?
Q: When is Maryter's day? How do you say it in modern Aramaic?
Q: What famous Greek (Macedonian) died in Babylon (suddenly and mysteriously) while trying to rebuild it as his capital? When?
Q: What does the Assyrian flag represent?
Q: Name the wife of Ashurbanipal, Sennacherib, and Sargon II.
Q: How many letters and vowels does Aramaic have. What language is it extremely similar to?
Q: When is the Assyrian new year? How many years have we existed?
Q: How many gates of Ishtar were there? Ishtar means ...?
Q: Who was the last Assyrian king? Who was the last "Great" Assyrian king?
Q: Ever heard of Assyrian missionaries? What country did they reach?
Q: How many Assyrians were killed by muslims?
Q: When was Assyria and Babylon destroyed? Who destryed them?
Q: The tower of Babel was derived from what and where?
Q: What famous biblical quote promises Assyria will return (along with
Israel and Egypt)? Check out Isaah 19:23.
Q: Who arrived to Nineveh to help spare the Assyrians from God's wrath?
Q: How did Assyrians become one of the first Chiristians and who was responsible?
Q: Cities and civilazation originated where?
Q: Mesopotamia is an absorbtion of Assyria, Babylon, Sumer, and Akkad. In what order?
Q: Who united Mesopotamia?
Q: How many times is Assyria mentioned in the bible?
Q: In the Louvre Meuseum in Paris there are two twin winged bulls. One is a copy. Why?
Q: Which Assyrian king destroyed the city of Babylon? Who rebuilt it?
Q: What does the word "Ashur" mean?
Q: Why are there 5 legs on the winged bull? How do you say it in Syriac-Aramaic?
Q: Who was the most literate Assyrian king?
Q: How did Nineveh fall? Who was involved?
Find out the answers and more with this screen saver and it's beautiful 73 images.
Version History:
VERSION 4.0 11/01/06 - (73 IMAGES, NEW ADVANCED SCREEN SAVER ENGINE, WIDER CAPTIONS)
VERSION 3.0 02/06/00 - (73 IMAGES)
VERSION 2.0 10/20/98 - (52 IMAGES)
VERSION 1.0 07/11/97 - (33 IMAGES)
If you are learning the Aramaic ATWAT'E (letters), you can use download THIS IMAGE as your
background image. It is a .BMP file and needs to be in your windows directory. Go to
control panel / desktop in Windows 3.1 or right-click the background in Windows 95 and select
on of the two files (depending on your current resolution).
Windows 95/98
To download this free program,
just click on the link below.
Then download the images.
Program disk (for Windows XP/2K/98/95/3.1) (1.3MB)
Assyrian Art Images Disk 1 (1.3MB)
Assyrian Art Images Disk 2 (1.4MB)
Assyrian Art Images Disk 3 (1.4MB)
Assyrian Art Images Disk 4 (1.4MB)
Assyrian Art Images Disk 5 (1.4MB)
Assyrian Art in one file. You don't need the above four Images files.
Click here for the MACINTOSH version of the program.