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"ThrustSSC at Black Rock" Wallpaper

ThrustSSC at Black Rock

Michael Turner's magnificent painting of ThrustSSC at speed across Black Rock Desert was the first official print of ThrustSSC. Appropriately, it is now the subject of our first background wallpaper.

© Michael Turner, 1995. If you would like a high quality print of this painting, they are available from the online ThrustSSC Shop.


Click here to download the 8-bit version of the Michael Turner wallpaper image to your PC (144kb).
Click here to download the 16-bit version of the Michael Turner wallpaper image to your PC (256kb).
Click here to download the 16-bit JPEG version of the Michael Turner wallpaper image to your (non-PC) computer (223kb).

Instructions For Downloading And Use

Personal Computers

Each wallpaper "bitmap" is compressed as one or more "self-extracting executables" to reduce your download time.

To use the background wallpaper:

  1. Click on the hot link for the version you want. When your browser asks you what you want it to do with the executable file (e.g. thrusta1.exe), save it to your hard drive.
  2. Execute the file to expand it (in Windows, use the Program Manager "File, Run" facility, or double-click on the file in File Manager). This will leave a bitmap file on your hard drive (e.g. thrusta1.bmp).
  3. Configure your operating system to display it as your background wallpaper:

Other Computers

To accomodate the requests we have received from owners of Macs and UNIX workstations, we have also loaded JPEG versions of the background "bitmaps" for you to download and convert to the appropriate format for your hardware and operating system.

To use the background wallpaper:

  1. Click on the JPEG hot link for the wallpaper bitmap you want.
  2. Save the image from your browser to your hard drive.
  3. Convert the JPEG image to the correct format for your operating system and configure it to use the wallpaper (there are so many different ways of doing this on different machines we won't attempt to give instructions here, but please contact us at the address below if you need help).

Need Help?

If you have any problems, please contact us at mailto:thrust.news@battlement.digital.co.uk and we'll be glad to help!



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