Military Tuesday : AKs, Screensavers & Image Rippers
Found this nice screensaver featuring 10 AK-type semi-automatic rifles and light machineguns from Arsenal, Inc. Some of my favourites below:
© Arsenal, Inc
Screensavers aren’t really useful for me since I don’t use them on my desktop and it seems a waste not to be able to use these photos in the screensaver as wallpapers. I fiddled with the screensaver a bit to see if I could somehow extract these photos from the screensaver as standalone images and below is a short summary of my findings. It’s slightly on the technical side, so do feel free to skip it and head for the download link at the bottom if you don’t want to bother with it 
Running the screensaver installer under Sandboxie (an short intro here) reveals that four files are extracted into the windows\system32 folder in your sandbox.
Since photos are usually saved as JPG files, I resolved to search for the JPEG header or more specificially the Start of Image (SOI) marker (two bytes - 0xFFD8 - more about the JPEG header) in the SPF file with my trusty HxD hex editor. Each occurrence is followed by JFIF bytes which further confirms that the images are stored in this file as JPEGs and without any compression (ZIP, RAR, etc)
While I could write a parser which could spit out the JPEG images from the SPF images, I’m a bit too lazy for that at the moment and decided to use Marco Pontello’s excellent BitmapRip which extracts images in JPEG, PNG or GIF format from any binary file. Simply drag and drop the SPF file over BitmapRip and you’re all done!
Download the Arsenal Inc AK Screensaver and BitmapRip.
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Zacca 1/6 Guns Collection & World Weapon Collection
Oleg Volk’s High Resolution Firearms Photos
Modern AKs
H&K MP5 Vexel Art by John Norris
