Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS

(morphing.cloud)

29 points | by NaOH 19 hours ago

5 comments

  • devindotcom 34 minutes ago
    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.

    • reaperducer 5 minutes ago
      I need the Star Trek modules

      They're there. Installable from within the program.

  • pogue 11 hours ago
    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.

  • Scramblejams 29 minutes ago
    I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.
  • dylan604 1 hour ago
    "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?

  • reaperducer 15 minutes ago
    I 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.