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Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS(morphing.cloud)
31 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 10 comments
devindotcom an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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.

orangecat 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Dedicated Lunatic Fringe player: https://morphing.cloud/lunacy/

reaperducer 18 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I need the Star Trek modules

They're there. Installable from within the program.

pogue 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

dylan604 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"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?

jedberg 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

This is pretty well trod legally. By the user taking a specific action, it makes the user responsible. Comma.ai uses the same technique. Technically their self driving hardware comes with no software. You have to click a button and point it at their GitHub to get the software on it, but it's automatic after that.

CaliforniaKarl 2 minutes ago | parent [-]

I forget, doesn't Audacity also have you do this, if you want to be able to export projects as MP3?

reaperducer 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

45sdasf45 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

"HAL 9000". This blog has how to do it on modern machines: https://www.fluffytech.co.uk/fluff/the-hal-project/#top

general idea, rip the 4k vids from YT and use a video screensaver app