Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Desktop

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a tribute site to some of the best in BBC comedies, captured here in the form of Windows Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy. This then is my tribute to Wallace and Gromit. Wallace who? Well if you have never heard of them chances are you are not going to find anything of interest here. If however you find them charming then just maybe you might find something of interest to download (read on).

Wallace and Gromit are those cute clay figures animated by Aardman Films and stars of three Nick Park films, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. Should you have never heard of them, let me introduce them to you.

Here in the UK they have achieved something approaching cult status where perhaps we Brits can appreciate the Northern humour and antics of our clay heroes! Set in the '50's in the north of England, we find Wallace, a madcap inventor, and his long suffering dog Gromit, getting into all sorts of scrapes and adventures thanks to the clever script writing and production of Aardman Films, under the expert direction of Nick Parks.

There are many sites on the WWW (Wonderful World of Wallace) that you can visit to download further details of the award winning films. I don't propose to repeat them here. Suffice to say that in my humble opinion they are very funny and you may agree if you take the trouble to find out.

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The first of 4 fun CD's released by the BBC, the Wallace and Gromit Funpack CD-ROM is available and is full of fun and entertaining activities, all inspired by Nick Park’s three Wallace & Gromit films. It comes with a PC customiser to bring your computer to life with sound-bites, screen-savers, wallpapers and icons. The home page provides access to the video browser (an interface of the best film clips), a multi-choice trivia quiz for one or more players, the Bungee Game (a one-player game inspired by A Close Shave), and the Train Game (a one-player game inspired by The Wrong Trousers) and all this for just £19.99. Now part of Value Pack 1 - better value than ever - see below.

Released in 1997, the Wallace and Gromit Crackin' Animator is now available on CD-ROM. You can create your very own animations with the UK’s famous Oscar® - winning characters! Animate the faces of Wallace & Gromit to sounds from the famous films in ‘The Expressionator’ , create animated scenes and screensavers in ‘The Customatic’ and ‘Scene-o-matic’, and play interactive screensaver games, like ‘Porridge Preston’ or Jam Catapult!’ Have a Cracking Time! Requires 486/66 MHz multimedia PC with 8MB RAM, Double Speed CD-ROM, Sound Blaster 16 or compatible sound card and Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11 or Windows 95 and Windows 98 - get it!!
Now part of Value Pack 2 - better value than ever!

W+G Animator

W+G Print-O-Matic

Released for Christmas 1998 the Wallace and Gromit Print-o-Matic CD-ROM. Featuring Wallace, Gromit, Wendolene, Shaun et al, this click and drop print studio is for younger folk who want to impress their friends and family with themed stationary, party invites, greeting cards, banners and graphics.!

Print-O-Matic is a relatively easy to use art program that enables you to create Wallace and Gromit stationary, greeting cards etc., and other essential accessories of modern day living. Easy to use this will appeal to all ages - just select the template, scroll through the character galleries and the font variations then click the mouse when you have finished making your selection. Now included in both Value Pack 1 and 2 - see below.

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The Wrong Desktop is a full featured for Desktop Theme for Microsoft Plus! based on those loveable claymation characters Wallace and Gromit and you can download it here. If you do not have a copy of Microsoft Plus! help is at hand in the form of Desktop Themes, a shareware desktop theme manager published by Jonathan Potter at Left Side Software. To find out more about this excellent shareware theme manager click on

to get your copy.

Now on Version 4.0, the theme has been created for 800x600 desktop using 16/24 bit colour schemes. There are in fact five different themes to choose from, two different desktop wallpapers featuring Wallace and Gromit and three from each of the Nick Park films. To ring the changes, I have provided some alternative sound effects in one or two of the film shot themes. Version 4.0 has also fixed one or two minor bugs; improved the quality of the wallpapers for the three film wallpapers; fixed the hand icon and improved the animated cursors - now all 256 colours.

The following graphics will give you an idea of the wallpapers used in theWrong Desktop Theme Pack. The zipped file is approximately 1.3 Mb and depending upon web traffic should be fairly straightforward to download and install. The theme includes a Wallace and Gromit Screen saver, animated cursors and Wallace and Gromit icons. Full installation instructions are included in the zipped file.

You can now use GetRight.Com's downloading Utility GetRight for Java to download this desktop theme. Click on the GetRight Download button that follows to download the Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Desktop Theme using GetRight for Java instead of your browsers usual download tool. Check out my Download Problems page to find out how to use this facility and for more great tips on how you can improve your downloads using Net Vampire.

If having loaded the theme you think it could be improved or has bugs, then please E-Mail me with your suggestions. If you think the theme is a crackin' desktop theme it may help visitors to this web page if you tell them what you think and

for 2001 - continuing the unique monthly Wallpaper calendar feature - I am pleased to be able to bring you the

2001 Desktop Calendar - additional themed backdrops to accompany the main Wallace and Gromit Desktop Theme that will enable you to change your desktop with each new month in 2001. The additional files (a new wallpaper and configuration file together with a readme file to explain how to use theses files) will be made available in a single short zipped file which will use most of The Wrong Desktop Theme files and therefore will be relatively small. The monthly W+G calendar zipped file will be posted at this web site at the first of each month throughout 2001.

I'm off on holiday this month, so as a special service to our dedicated fans, here's both the July and August Calendar's

Don't forget to come back and visit

from 1st September and download the September ‘01 desktop wallpaper.

Another feature of this tribute page are my animated gif files - short animated extracts from the three films by Nick Park showing just a hint of what Wallace and Gromit are all about. Because each one takes a couple of minutes to load I have put them on separate web pages so that you can choose whether you want to see them or not. Here are the links that will take you to them....

1997-2001, all rights acknowledged.

Click here to hear closing message from Wallace!! (21K).

NTSC VHS	PAL VHS	BOOKS

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