Afterglow brings classic After Dark screen savers to modern macOS
Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Afterglow is a new emulator that runs original 68k After Dark modules—Flying Toasters, Fish, and more—on modern macOS without ROMs or classic Mac OS. It reimplements the necessary Macintosh Toolbox APIs, imports modules via drag-and-drop or from the Internet Archive, and includes a macOS screen saver module. Built for software preservation, it aims to keep these classic animations alive.
They are works of art worth preserving.
- devindotcom
I need the Star Trek modules, which I recall waiting overnight to pirate from a BBS on my 14.4k. "Do NOT pick up the phone, mom."
Also Lunatic Fringe - somehow and for some reason a full top down space shoot-em-up in After Dark. Probably for office workers to play, I do recall there was a "boss mode" that pulled up a fake spreadsheet or something.
- pogue
I need this for Windows.
The After Dark screensavers are on the internet archive, but obviously they look and run like crap since they're made for Windows 3.x to maybe 95/98.
- nodesocket
Is there just the one Mowin' Man in More After Dark?
- Backslasher
Semi-related, I redid just the other day the Flying Toasters in-browser with the full logic from the original, toast-juggler and everything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432857
Thought about doing it as a Linux screensaver, but I didn't have the patience to actually wait for the idle time, and that way I can share it with my non-Linux-using family.
- temp0826
I get the nostalgia factor, but is it actually a good idea to use screensavers on modern monitors rather than letting them sleep?