Days gone by...

November 15, 2006 8:22 AM

Anyone know remember AfterDark Screen Savers?

I ask because I would like to find out if I can get my hands on a copy that will work on Windows XP/Mac OS X. I loved them in the "old days" but no longer see them being sold in stores. If you know where I can get them, please let me know.

posted by photodegas to computers & internet (10 comments total)

http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/11/4694/

First hit on Google for "AfterDark XP" provides a link to download AfterDark 10th anniversary edition, as well as instructions on how to install it.

Haven't tried it, nor do I know the legality of it.
posted by stovenator at 8:25 AM on November 15, 2006

Now with Linky Goodness
posted by stovenator at 8:25 AM on November 15, 2006

Here is ToasterClone for Windows and OS X, and here is after dark for OS X.
posted by Tacos Are Pretty Great at 8:27 AM on November 15, 2006

Are you talking about the toasters? Oh my word, I was singing the song to myself a few weeks ago (Up, up, up, up in the skyyyyyyyyyy...). Thanks!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:29 AM on November 15, 2006 [1 favorite]

yes! flying toasters! I spent many happy hours with that floppy disk as a child.

what? I was easily amused...
posted by corvine at 8:30 AM on November 15, 2006

Flying out of the sun
The smell of toast is in the air
When there's a job to be done
The flying toasters will be there.
And it's flap! Flap! Flap!
Now help is on the way.
This vict'ry song they sing:
We pop up to save the day
On mighty toaster wings!

In brightest day of After Dark
When times of trouble are at hand.
The Flying Toasters set a spark
And hope is blazing 'cross the land
And its flap! Flap! Flap!
Salvation from above
This precious gift they bring
Gleaming angels of love
On mighty Toaster Wings!
posted by Tacos Are Pretty Great at 8:37 AM on November 15, 2006

Tacos Are Pretty Great: So are Toasters, which fly. I love you for reminding me that I know that song. I must needs add it to my drunken repertoire.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:57 PM on November 15, 2006

I was looking around for the one truly important part of After Dark and dug this up – a program that will, provided you still possess a copy of the old After Dark, play Lunatic Fringe in Classic.
posted by furiousthought at 1:36 PM on November 15, 2006

I can take a short walk, look in a library window, and view the flying toasters on an old Mac anytime I miss them! They probably have the original disks too, but I doubt they would work for OS X.

I also have tshirt with Boris the cat from After Dark that I got at PC Expo long ago
posted by mikepop at 6:14 PM on November 15, 2006

I just have to add that if you download the files from the first comment, they include some midi files that make good ringtones (you don't have to actually install the program).
posted by mikepop at 7:21 PM on November 15, 2006