Heh - yeah, reading the Point of Origins makes it seem like Origin FX was the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's hard to fathom now, but there was a period in the early 1990s when screensavers were really, really popular... and that's what Origin FX was, a screensaver package for Windows 3 along the lines of After Dark. It was a mix of Origin-based and original-concept modules, and it included quite a few scenarios and options to play with.
OFX's lasting contribution to Wing Commander continuity is a single paragraph in the manual which describes the "TCS Paradigm" module - involving the Confederation's flagship chasing down pirates in 2664.
I have the manual which lists all the modules at home, but these are most of the Wing Commander ones:
- TCS Paradigm: a Paradigm destroyer flies back and forth in front of several different backgrounds.
- A debris field made up of Wing Commander bits and pieces - asteroids, destroyed ships, mines, etc.
- Fighters from Wing Commander 2, Privateer and Strike Commander fly around your screen.
It also promised to play movies from games based on 'Origin FX technology' - which meant Wing Commander 2 and Strike Commander. If you had both the games and Windows and Origin FX on your computer (did anyone actually manage this in 1993?) then the program would play the 'movies' with a little theater backdrop -- which meant Blair kissing Angel, Angel slapping Jazz and maybe one or two others.
I don't remember too many of the other modules. There was one that filled the screen with animals from Ultima VII... and one that was skyscrapers with a window washer who cleaned them... and one or two that shifted your screen around with weird effects. There was a slideshow, too, that came with a few (then) high quality BMPs pre-loaded... two or so were from Privateer.