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This New App Brings 1990s 'After Dark' Screen Savers to Modern macOS

AfterglowAs noted by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, developer Jeff Halter has released a new Afterglow app that allows you to run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS versions.

"Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules -- the original 68k module code, not a remake or port -- with no dependencies on ROMs or classic Mac OS," said Halter, who has several fun nostalgic projects, such as After Dark space shooter Lunacy and HyperCard player Stacks.

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arn Avatar
8 weeks ago
fun fact. In college I wrote the Points of View module for After Dark 4.0. Its just 3d objects made of dots rotating / bouncing around the screen.

Not very impressive these days.
Score: 27 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 weeks ago
I’ve been wanting something like this for years. The heyday of After Dark was such a specific moment in time, and some of its modules were genuinely mesmerizing.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 weeks ago
This is awesome. ST-TNG modules are going to be copied from my old Macs tonight!
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
turbineseaplane Avatar
8 weeks ago
Great memories of this!!!

I have Fish Pro running, just like the good old days!



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Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 weeks ago

This is awesome. ST-TNG modules are going to be copied from my old Macs tonight!
Jeez, I had completely forgotten about the Star Trek versions. I used to have Spock wandering around my screen shooting a phaser, taking tricorder readings, and mind melding with a Horta.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Jeff Halter Avatar
8 weeks ago

fun fact. In college I wrote the Points of View module for After Dark 4.0. Its just 3d objects made of dots rotating / bouncing around the screen.

Not very impressive these days.
đź‘‹ Hi, Afterglow developer here.

I think Points of View is awesome! Thanks for your work on this.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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