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- rcontiThe original After Dark, distributed on floppy in 1989, 1.1MB, was $110 in today's money. More than $7 per screen saver!Of course, the target market of computer users was way smaller than it is today.
- devindotcomI 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.
- pogueI 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.
- BackslasherSemi-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=49432857Thought 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.
- ScramblejamsI need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.
- dylan604"You can also browse and install software releases directly from the Internet Archive without leaving the app. "That's a fine line being walked there. If they are worried about rights issues and not including the bundles, this seems like a risky FU by building this feature in directly. The part about using bundles you may have without asking questions of origin is fine. Otherwise, why not just include the bundles?
- temp0826I get the nostalgia factor, but is it actually a good idea to use screensavers on modern monitors rather than letting them sleep?
- dallen33Has anyone been able to make this actually work as a macOS screensaver? I'm using Tahoe and when I go to System Settings -> Wallpapers -> Screensavers, I don't see any option to select like Afterglow or any of the wallpapers I installed.
- taocoyoteWe need this for the Death Toasters from Opus 'n Bill: Brain Saver
- shartsI’m surprised still that there hasn’t been a port of the classic old old Windows screensavers.
- CodeWriter23Anyone get this running? I installed and downloaded content but cannot figure out how to get it to appear under Screen Savers in System Settings.
- alberthjcs has this on their blog.https://jcs.org/If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.
- nodesocketIs there just the one Mowin' Man in More After Dark?
- reaperducerI wish someone would do this for a recently deceased OS X screen saver I loved.Someone went through the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and re-created all of the computer screens, with animation.It was a masterpiece of mid-century design and space-age optimism.IIRC, the author got a cease-and-desist demand, and was left to languish and die when Macs went 64-bit only.