'After Dark' is a series of computer screensaver software introduced in 1989 by Berkeley Systems for the Apple Macintosh , and later for Microsoft Windows .
After Dark is a series of computer screensaver software introduced by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for the Apple Macintosh, and in 1991 for Microsoft Windows. Following the original, additional editions included More After Dark, Before Dark, and editions themed around licensed properties such as Star Trek, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Marvel, and Disney characters. Aug 11, 2020 After Dark: Flying Toasters. A recreation of the Flying Toasters screensaver that was part of the After Dark series of original screensavers for the Apple Mac operating system. Bread toasters with wings and toasted slices of bread fly through the screen against a solid black background. You can create a screensaver for your Macintosh and also create original After Dark screensavers with Screen Studio. It also comes with a large amount of clip art, including popular characters from After Dark, such as the Flying Toaster, Bad Dog, Boris and fish from the popular Fish module, as well as sound files, so you can quickly create your very own personalized screensavers. After Dark Deluxe is packed with nearly every After Dark display ever created, over 85 in all! After Dark Deluxe contains More than 20 all-new animated displays from the new After Dark 4.0, plus over 60 Classic After Dark displays. After Dark Deluxe Features Over 85 Displays: Every new display from After Dark 4.0 Art Critic Bad Dog!
Following the original, new editions followed including 'More After Dark' and 'Before Dark', as well as editions themed around licensed properties such as 'Star Trek ', 'The Simpsons ', Looney Tunes and Walt Disney Company characters. The screensaver modules often referenced each other, such as the flying toasters appearing in the 'Fish' screensaver, and the cat from 'Boris' screensaver appearing in the 'Bad Dog' screensaver.
As well as the included animated screensavers, it allowed third-party modules to be included since, at the time of the original release, screensaver launching functionality was not included as a part of the Macintosh or Windows operating system s.
A book was published about After Dark called 'Art of Darkness' by Erfert Fenton (Peachpit Press , 1992).
Flying Toasters
Of the animated modules included, the most famous is the iconic 'Flying Toasters' which featured 1940s-style chrome toaster s sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces of toast. An updated 'Flying Toasters Pro' module added a choice of music: Richard Wagner 's Ride of the Valkyries or a flying toaster anthem with optional karaoke lyrics. Yet another version called 'Flying Toasters!' added bagels and pastries, baby toasters, and more elaborate toaster animation.
The toasters were the subject of two lawsuits, the first in 1993, 'Berkeley Systems vs Delrina Corporation', over a module of Delrina's 'Opus 'N Bill' screensaver in which Opus the penguin shoots down the toasters. Delrina later changed the wings of the toasters to propellers in order to avoid infringing the trademark . The second case was brought in 1994 by 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane who claimed that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the cover of their 1973 album 'Thirty Seconds Over Winterland '. The case was dismissed because the cover art had not been registered as a trademark by the group prior to Berkeley Systems' release of the screensaver. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/eword.html?pg=9]
A 3D version of the toasters featuring swarms of toasters with plane wings, rather than bird wings, is available for XScreenSaver .
After Dark Games and onward
Sierra Interactive and Berkeley Systems released After Dark Games for the Macintosh and Windows platforms, which contained several games modeled after their previously released screensavers. These games included 'Mowin' Maniac' (a Pac-Man clone based on the 'Mowin' Man'/'Mowin' Boris' modules), 'Roof Rats' (similar to SameGame and variants), 'Solitaire ' (After Dark themed), Toaster Run (a 3D adventure game featuring several After Dark Characters, more notably the Flying Toaster), Zapper (a trivia game), Hula Girl (another 3D adventure game based on the 'Hula Twins' module from After Dark 4.0), two word scramble games - Bad Dog 911 (based on the 'Bad Dog' modules) and Fish Shtix (based on the 'Fish' modules, mainly 'Fish World'), Foggy Boxes (a connect the boxes type game based on the 'Messages 4.0' module), MooShu tiles (a Mahjong -like game featuring many After Dark characters throughout the years), and Rodger Dodger. 'Rodger Dodger' had been a module several years back, but also a playable game inside the module. There is not much of it changed from the module aside from some of the music and most of the level's set-ups. Many fans liked the games, but some felt it lacked games based on more fitting modules, such as 'Daredevil Dan', 'Lunatic Fringe' (which was a game inside its module, like 'Rodger Dodger'), and the After Dark re-working of 'Rock, Paper Scissors' (also a game inside its module).
In fact, it was the last time Berkeley ever touched the series. In 1997, the owners sold out to the Sierra On-Line division of CUC International . Joan Blades and Wes Boyd , the founders of Berkeley Systems, went on to create MoveOn.org . [http://MoveOn.org]
Fans have made modern versions of several of the screensavers in the years since. An official version of After Dark was released for Mac OS X by Infinisys Ltd (of Japan) in May 2003 . It has yet to be converted to Universal binary , so at the current moment it can only be run on PowerPC computers with OS X.
Sierra released a Flying Toaster video game for cell phones in 2006.Fact|date=October 2007
Trivia
*Several 'After Dark' modules were featured in the background of interviews for the VH1 show 'I Love the '90s '.
*A Flying Toaster appeared in the Simpsons episode The Computer Wore Menace Shoes on Homer Simpson 's website full of animated GIFs , one of which was the Flying Toaster. The module 'Starry Night' was also referenced in The Simpsons episode, ''Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky '. At the end of the episode, while looking at the stars, Marge Simpson says 'This is better than our screensaver, and I love our screensaver.' The 'Starry Night' module is famous for its star filled night sky. In the episode 'Radioactive Man', the Flying Toasters screensaver can be seen on Comic Book Guy 's computer.
*A Flying Toaster appears in the episode of Futurama titled 'The Honking ', where it, along with the Microsoft Windows logo and other computer icons of the 1990s, chase Bender .
*A Flying Toaster also appears in the 'Rugrats ' episode 'In the Dreamtime', in which Chuckie Finster sees a Flying Toaster in his dream.
* On the television show Beverly Hills 90210 , the Peach Pit After Dark Night Club used a flying toaster as its logo.
* A flying toaster is seen in The Fairly OddParents episode 'What's the Difference?'. Another one (previously a bird) is also seen in the episode 'Nectar of the Odds'.
* In the King of the Hill episode 'Earthly Girls are Easy ', Buck Strickland has a flying toaster screen saver that keeps him happy.
References
External links Mac os 10.12 sierra vmware image download.
* [http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/adx/ After Dark X] , the official version for Mac OS X by Infinisys.
* [http://www.wurst-wasser.net/cgi-bin/wurst-wasser.net/wiki.pl?SoftwareProjectsOverview Freeware OS X Flying Toaster clone] .
* [http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0209.html Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark]
* [http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0212.html On Mighty Toaster Wings: More After Dark History]
* [http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0213.html How After Dark Came to Windows]
* [http://www.wurst-wasser.net/cgi-bin/wurst-wasser.net/wiki.pl?SoftwareProjectsOverview Freeware OS X Flying Toaster clone] .
* [http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0209.html Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark]
* [http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0212.html On Mighty Toaster Wings: More After Dark History]
* [http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0213.html How After Dark Came to Windows]
A recreation of the Flying Toasters screensaver that was part of the After Dark series of original screensavers for the Apple Mac operating system. Bread toasters with wings and toasted slices of bread fly through the screen against a solid black background.
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Installation instructions
Microsoft Windows
- Extract the screensaver file from the After Dark Flying Toasters ZIP file you downloaded, to the Windows folder on your hard drive, usually located at C:Windows.
- Right-click the screensaver file where you copied it and select 'Install'.
Apple Mac OS X
- Double-click the 'After Dark Flying Toasters.saver' contained within the ZIP file you downloaded to install the screensaver.
- If OS X complains the program can't be opened because it is 'from an unidentified publisher,' right-click the screensaver file and select 'Open', then click 'Open' again.
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User reviews (35)
Nostalgia at its finest!
by DougInMaine on August 11, 2020
I nearly wept when I got this to work on my laptop and external monitor; I can't believe how long it's been since I had the first version of After Dark! and how much I've missed it. The best dose of nostalgia I've had in a while!
Note the security tips: https://www.screensaversplanet.com/help/guides/mac/file-cant-be-opened-because-it-is-from-an-unidentified-developer-38
by amkaplan on July 29, 2020
Doesn't work if you're using nVidia surround
by Vorden on July 3, 2020
For the first time in 20 years, I have flying toasters on my computer! It takes me back to high school and installing After Dark onto my 386SX-16 with a whopping TWO MEGABYTES of RAM (!) and watching those toasters stutter and jerk across the screen; today they glide effortlessly across the screen on my dual core i5 MacBook Pro. My, how times have changed..
by Regan on June 14, 2020
Yep. definitely loved it in the early 90s on my Quadra when working at an oil company in Lagos. Great stuff!!!
by big jimi naija on April 28, 2020
The screen saver is very nice. I wished there would be all the other afterdeck modules incl. Disney and StarTreck available for MacOS X. My only problem in Mac Catalina is that every once in a while the system pops up and requests to move the screensaver to the Trash Bin since from an unidentified developer. Although I go to the privacy settings preferences to allow opening the screensaver, it happens over and over again. Its a bit disturbing. Any one has the same issues and maybe a solution to this problem?
by Roger on April 28, 2020
It's not codesigned. Therefore, I can't trust it on my system. Very disappointed.
by Doesnt Matter on April 26, 2020
Works great for me on my MBP running 10.15.4 - across my 30' Cinema Display and 2 x 27' 1080i screens all at once!
Shame there's no configurable settings - so a star off for that.
But otherwise I'm awash with nostalgia!
by Nick on March 2, 2020
Reminds me of my childhood. You should allow for multiple monitor settings, though.
by Chris Kreschollek on November 25, 2019
Great screensaver. No settings, alas. But it's free and works on Catalina! I like the retro stuff. This a feel-good screensaver.
by Isotizer on November 2, 2019
Sadly doesn't work on XP for me :/ 2 stars
by zoomer4548 on October 21, 2019
Major Love for Flying Toasters. Really Relax My Mind.
by Carlos Sosa on October 20, 2019
Fantastic. I wish operating systems had more character like they did in the good old days. Nowadays everything is so sterile and there's no way at all to add personal touches to your environment. Sad. But this screensaver really helps bring back the memories of better OS days. Very, very well done.
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by John Schilling (StimpSoft) on September 5, 2019
Great to have a FREE version that works with Windows 10.
(I have home version with all updates as of 7/2019).
Installed and worked no problems.
(I have home version with all updates as of 7/2019).
Installed and worked no problems.
by Chris on July 16, 2019
great! pity that you haven't any personalization about dimensions, speed.. but ok, it's freeware :)
by fabrizio g on February 21, 2019
I think they are a great piece of art and they are very much missed, I flourished with them growing up with Windows 3.0, 98 and XP.
I would also like to see an updated Free Agent Screen savers like Morface, On Patrol, etc..
I would also like to see an updated Free Agent Screen savers like Morface, On Patrol, etc..
by Monk Paloo on December 2, 2018
Nice touch of nostalgia - works fine on Mojave. (OS 10.14)
by Ox on October 3, 2018
Great Screensaver! Only Problem is that it Does Not Work on Mac OS 10.6.8.
by Mastergeko4 on September 20, 2018
Not optimized for 4k screen. The instants of the toasters disappear before they are out of the screen, and none of them reaches the bottom left of the screen.
by Joa on July 25, 2018
Its Does Not Have Any Of The Customization The Original Had
3 stars
3 stars
by Collin Anderson on June 21, 2018
Works perfectly on Mac OS on both single and multiple display setups.
by Jay on April 12, 2018
Sadly does not work on multiple monitors, and doesn't even make the second monitor black, wanted to like this, but that's unfortunate :-(
by BoFiS on April 4, 2018
Very nice. It reminds on former times working with Windows XP. Now I have installed the screensaver to Windows 10 Pro x64 Version 1709. To install the screensaver copy the scr-file to C:WindowsSystem32. Windows 10 security settings to change. To activate goto settings-personalization-lockscreen, scroll to last entry: settings screensaver.
by Horst Hader on December 21, 2017
Thank you! Really well executed/ported. I missed it! Works great!
by Eric on November 22, 2017
Still have the original CD and run it on my XP machine. Shortly updating my machine and hope I can get it to run on Windows 10.
I like the falling bouncing balls (Marbles) the best.
I like the falling bouncing balls (Marbles) the best.
by Jim Butterworth on November 20, 2017
Thank you for bringing this back!
by Michel Larocque on September 24, 2017
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by Mitc h. on September 6, 2017
THIS IS SO GREAT! Thank you for porting this over! :))))
by Eric on August 18, 2017
Great thing, finally!
Suggestions for a new version:
user can use a configuration menue to define
- background image and foreground image (that reflects on toasters)
- light brightness and adjust color (affects flying items only)
- light location (affects flying items only)
Suggestions for a new version:
user can use a configuration menue to define
- background image and foreground image (that reflects on toasters)
- light brightness and adjust color (affects flying items only)
- light location (affects flying items only)
by Hirnsausen on April 20, 2017
nostalgia, nice nostalgia
by ih on March 21, 2017
I can watch it forever, like I used to do. Toasters fly a bit too smoothly, though.
by Kota on March 15, 2017
Pretty good. In fact I love it! Except - no sound. I miss the Flying Toasters anthem
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!
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!
by Sean on February 8, 2017
MMmmMM.. tasty.
by Toast on January 30, 2017
OMG the nostalgia! Runs so smoothly too.
by Perry Bruns on July 1, 2016
Reminds me good memories!
by Colin on June 9, 2016
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