Life & fun · September 10, 2026
Afterglow
Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Afterglow launched on September 10, 2026 with 102 votes, #235 of 8,042 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Afterglow runs classic After Dark screen saver modules — Flying Toasters, Fish!, Starry Skyline, and more — natively on macOS, with no ROMs required.
In the ’90s, Berkeley Systems’ After Dark screen savers brought Flying Toasters, Fish, and Starry Skylines to Macintosh screens everywhere. They served a practical purpose in preventing burn-in on CRT monitors, but also entertained, with animations that could be funny, surreal, beautiful -- sometimes gross. Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved fussy configuration of Mac OS emulators or vintage hardware. Even then, no single emulator or vintage computer can faithfully run every module: some animate too fast, some too slow. Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules -- the original 68k module code, not a remake or port -- with no…from morphing.cloud
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I recreated a flying toasters screensaver for XScreensaver2023 · github.com · ▲80"After Dark" by Berkeley Systems was a collection of screensavers for Macintosh and Windows from early 90s; "Flying Toasters" is probably the most famous and loved among them. Using my very limited knowledge of C and X11 programming, I recreated it as a XScreensaver module for Linux. Hope you find it useful or at least amusing!
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