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  • jcs has this on their blog.

    https://jcs.org/

    If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.

    by alberth
  • 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.

    by Backslasher
  • These are highly nostalgic. My grandfather had a Mac Classic he bought from a friend at work, and it was equipped with After Dark, but also the Looney Tunes sound effects pack (the only one I recall, is that it said "That's all folks" when you shut it down)
    by swiftcoder
  • 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.

    by reaperducer
  • I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.
    by Scramblejams
  • The 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.

    by rconti
  • 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.

    by pogue
  • 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.

    by devindotcom

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