On Another Note...
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zesty_pintoI refound an old love... After Dark!
You remember After Dark, right? Of course you do! If you don't, then you're too young to be reading my thread!
After Dark was Berkeley Systems' finest creation before they were bought by Sierra and made those "You Don't Know Jack" games. It was a screensaver program that had everything cool about screensavers. They were the inventors of the aquarium screensaver (affectionately entitled "Fish") as well as the quirky Flying Toasters, the lifelike Boris (and its counterpart the Bad Dog), and a mileau of other modules that included specialty theme modules like Star Trek themes, Disney themes, and even a Simpsons theme (including a module where Homer eats your desktop. Mmmmm... desktop).
I had the luck to find a place where I could download this old system. It's not exactly the most useful on a Win 2k platform, but I still have it for the sake of nostalgia. I heard that there is a new After Dark out, but, naturally, it's OSX exclusive and doesn't include most of the fun original stuff that made After Dark so customized with coolness.
Right now, I'm also hunting around for old modules. If any of you want any, feel free to bug me about it and I'll try to send you what I have or what you want. Right now I have found:
3.0 (limited number of modules, unfortunately)
The Simpsons set
The Disney collection
The Peanuts collection
You remember After Dark, right? Of course you do! If you don't, then you're too young to be reading my thread!
After Dark was Berkeley Systems' finest creation before they were bought by Sierra and made those "You Don't Know Jack" games. It was a screensaver program that had everything cool about screensavers. They were the inventors of the aquarium screensaver (affectionately entitled "Fish") as well as the quirky Flying Toasters, the lifelike Boris (and its counterpart the Bad Dog), and a mileau of other modules that included specialty theme modules like Star Trek themes, Disney themes, and even a Simpsons theme (including a module where Homer eats your desktop. Mmmmm... desktop).
I had the luck to find a place where I could download this old system. It's not exactly the most useful on a Win 2k platform, but I still have it for the sake of nostalgia. I heard that there is a new After Dark out, but, naturally, it's OSX exclusive and doesn't include most of the fun original stuff that made After Dark so customized with coolness.
Right now, I'm also hunting around for old modules. If any of you want any, feel free to bug me about it and I'll try to send you what I have or what you want. Right now I have found:
3.0 (limited number of modules, unfortunately)
The Simpsons set
The Disney collection
The Peanuts collection
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Date: 2005-03-30 02:48 am (UTC)