Screen Antics: Johnny Castaway

Screen Antics: Johnny Castaway (PC, 1992) has an open-source reimplementation, glauberlima/open-scrantic.

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Projects

ReimplementationRust, winit, softbuffer, rodio25 starspushed 2026-10-21MIT licenserelease v0.4.0runs on Windows, macOS, Linux

Reverse-engineered Rust reimplementation of the Johnny Castaway screensaver (Screen Antics, Sierra/Dynamix, 1992) for Windows, macOS and Linux

Rust reimplementation of the 1992 Sierra/Dynamix screensaver, rebuilt from the disassembly of SCRANTIC.SCR, including its story calendar and random number generator. It reads the original SCRANTIC.SCR, RESOURCE.MAP and RESOURCE.001 at run time and runs on Windows (also as a screensaver), macOS and Linux. Release v0.4.0 (2026-10-21). The README says it was made with AI help (Claude Code and REA).

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