Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS

(morphing.cloud)

38 points | by NaOH 20 hours ago

5 comments

  • devindotcom 1 hour 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.

    • orangecat 25 minutes ago
      Dedicated Lunatic Fringe player: https://morphing.cloud/lunacy/
    • cyanydeez 13 minutes ago
      Did you forget to use that download protocol that lets you resume downloads or were you normal. I think it was zoom something.
    • reaperducer 33 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.

  • 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?

    • jedberg 24 minutes ago
      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.
      • schoen 9 minutes ago
        We lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that).

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,....

        I'm not sure if this doctrine has continued to be applied to anything else.

        • jedberg 3 minutes ago
          That's a good point. The other examples didn't involve copyright.

          Hopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it.

          ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!

      • CaliforniaKarl 17 minutes ago
        I forget, doesn't Audacity also have you do this, if you want to be able to export projects as MP3?
        • dylan604 13 minutes ago
          yes, although the I recently tried doing this on a cloud Ubuntu instance, and it refused to see the .so file
  • Scramblejams 57 minutes ago
    I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.
  • reaperducer 43 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.