Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS(morphing.cloud) |
Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS(morphing.cloud) |
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.
They're there. Installable from within the program.
Not sure if the protocol was available or easily enabled at the time or via those means. I surely would have used it! Buy my brother was the one who set up the application in the first place.
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.
I would think if this mac After Dark project is open source, the assets would be available to use in other software.
Of course, the target market of computer users was way smaller than it is today.
That said, XScreenSaver does work properly on Wayland now, apart from locking, but I don't need locking on my personal computer in my personal office in my personal house, so that's fine by me!
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.
general idea, rip the 4k vids from YT and use a video screensaver app
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.
If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.
Anyway, the flying toasters has some meditation vibe. Even compared to screensavers back then.
Nice anecdote, With all the changes, screensavers have become less usable with screens being able to simply turn off pixels while toasters are still being used everyday.
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?
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.
Hopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it.
ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!
But I get the impression you want a ready-made solution for you, not do your own plumbing...