Original author(s) | Jack Eastman[1] Patrick Beard |
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Developer(s) | Berkeley Systems |
Initial release | 1989; 30 years ago |
Stable release | 4.0 / 1996; 23 years ago |
Written in | assembly language, C |
Operating system | Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, DOS[2] |
Type | screensaver |
Website | en.infinisys.co.jp/product/adx/ |
Module Name | Description |
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Starry Night | The original After Dark screen saver, featuring a pixelated city skyline under a night sky |
Aquatic Realm (Fish!) | Underwater world of fish with a black background |
Artist | A digital artist applies artistic touches to images in a slow manner so one can see the artist work |
Bad Dog | Popular module featuring a white dog with a black ring around one of his eyes, causing trouble on the desktop (the animated series Bad Dog was inspired by the eponymous screensaver)[18] |
Bad Dog! | A sequel to Bad Dog with new animations and sequences |
Bogglins | Green slime creatures are formed and make obnoxious noises |
Boris | The opposite of Bad Dog, a good cat plays on the desktop and chases butterflies |
Bouncing Ball | A ball bounces around the screen, including bouncing off the edges |
Bugs | Digital bugs crawl across the screen |
Bulge | Expands portions of the screen, making the screen appear to have a 'bulge' |
Bungee Roulette[i] | Various characters bungee-jump from the top of the screen, but occasionally the bungee cord breaks |
Can of Worms | 'Worms' emerge from the screen, crawl around, and 'eat' the screen content |
Chameleon[i] | Chameleons walk across the screen, changing colors and eating icons |
Clocks | Different objects appear as a clock and move around |
Coming Soon![i] | A salesperson pitches fictitious 'products' |
Confetti Factory | Confetti falls from the top of the screen and onto conveyor belts below |
Daredevil Dan | A daredevil motorcyclist attempts dangerous jumps over school buses, flames, and piranha tanks |
Dominoes | A game of dominoes is played on the screen |
Doodles | Draws doodle-like images |
DOS Shell | A mock DOS shell is run on the screen, reliving earlier days of computing |
Dots | A game of 'dots' is played on the screen |
Down the Drain | The desktop appears to spiral down a drain |
Einstein | Complex mathematical and scientific equations are performed on the screen |
Fade Away | The desktop fades away in different ways |
Fish Pro | Fish module similar to Aquatic Realm |
Fish World | The third iteration of the concept introduced in Aquatic Realm with prerendered 3D models |
Floating Suns[ii] | Displays the Phoenix Suns basketball team's logos floating around the screen |
Flocks | Displays flocks of various creatures on the screen |
Flying Toasters | Classic module featuring flying toasters |
Flying Toasters Pro | Updated version that allows one to select more than flying toasters and also has music |
Flying Toasters! | 4.0 iteration of the flying toasters with updated graphics and music — introduces baby toasters |
Flying Toilets[i] | Parody of Flying Toasters with toilets replacing the toasters |
Fractal Forest | A forest of trees is generated on the screen |
FrankenScreen[i] | A digital Frankenstein creates creatures out of various parts |
Frost and Fire | Produces patterns similar to splattering paint on paper |
GeoBounce | A geometrical figure bounces around the screen |
Globe | Takes an image and wraps it around a sphere, then spins like a globe |
GraphStat | Draws scientific and mathematical graphs on the screen |
Gravity | Circles bounce around the screen |
Guts | Gravity simulation |
Hall of Fame | 10th anniversary module featuring anime-style recreations of various After Dark characters |
Hall of Mirrors | Reflects parts of the screen in an infinite mirror style |
Hallucinations | The computer 'hallucinates' |
Hard Rain | Rain falls onto the desktop |
Hula Twins | Displays two animated figures who walk around and twirl hula hoops |
Lasers | Lasers create patterns on the screen |
Lissajous | Displays Lissajous designs |
Logo | User-supplied image moves randomly on screen |
Lunatic Fringe | A playable space shooter game within a module |
Magic | Creates soothing patterns |
Mandelbrot | Generates a mathematically created Mandelbrot set |
Marbles | Marbles bounce around the screen |
Meadow | A computer-generated meadow |
Message Mayhem[i] | A figure on the screen scrawls out a message |
Messages | Displays a crawling marquee message on the screen with selectable font and text colors |
Mike's So-called Life[i] | Features a man named Mike, living in his apartment and doing nothing exciting |
Mime Hunt[i] | A playable module that features a mime and cross-hairs |
Modern Art | Modern Art displayed on the screen |
Mondrian | Inverts parts of the screen |
Mosaic | Creates a mosaic of the screen |
Mountains | Generates 3-D mountains |
Movies 'Til Dawn | Plays QuickTime movies |
Mowin' Boris[i] | Mowin' Man mows a field with Boris the cat around. When Mowin' Man runs over Boris, blood and guts appear |
Mowin' Man | A man mows a constantly growing field |
MultiModule | Displays a user-selected combination of After Dark modules with the modules all displayed simultaneously and optionally overlaid over each other |
NightLines | |
Nirvana | Generates colorful textures |
Nocturnes | Shows the eyes of various nocturnal creatures, such as bats |
Nonsense | Nonsensical phrases are displayed on the screen |
Om Appliances | Various appliances do weird things on the screen |
Origami | Computer-generated origami appears on the screen |
Out and About | A musician walks out with a chair and an instrument, sits down and begins to play while other people slowly appear and begin milling around while kids play |
Pattern | Animated patterns appear on the screen |
Pearl | An optical effect featuring squares |
Penrose | Penrose tiling effect |
Phlegm Boy[i] | An obnoxious slimy creature is disgusting and displays bad habits |
Photon | Computer-generated particles of light are emitted from the darkness |
PICS Player | Plays an animated sequence from a PICS file on the Mac platform |
Plasma | Plasma-like image generated |
Punch Out | Round holes appear to be punched out of the desktop |
Puzzle | The desktop becomes a sliding puzzle |
Rain | Colorful raindrops fall on the desktop |
Rainstorm | Like the Rain module, but with wind and lightning |
Rainy Day[ii] | Rain drops on your screen. User can select how fast they fall and how strong the wind is. |
Randomizer | Randomly displays modules chosen from a user-generated list of modules |
Rat Race | A race featuring three rats with names, mindlessly wandering around the track until there is a winner |
Rebound | Balls rebound around the screen |
Rose | Mathematical pattern based on trigonometry |
Satori | Color animated light show |
Say What? | Displays humorous phrases |
Scrubbing Bubbles[ii] | Displays multiple Scrubbing Bubbles (Dow Brands) floating around the screen |
Scrubbing Bubbles II[ii] | Displays multiple Scrubbing Bubbles (Dow Brands) 'scrubbing' the screen and going down the drain |
Shapes | Fills the screen with colorful, geometric shapes |
Shock Clocks[i] | Scary creatures are turned into clocks |
Shooting Spree[ii] | The desktop appears to be shot up by a gun. User can select which gun to use. |
Sinkhole[ii] | The desktop appears to fall into sinkholes |
Slide Show | A basic slide show of user-supplied images |
Snake | A pixelated snake tries to find its way through a maze |
Spheres | A number of spheres fill the screen |
Spin Brush | Smears points on the screen like wet paper |
Spiral Gyro | Vector module that twists lines |
Spotlight | The desktop becomes black and parts are 'illuminated' by a randomly moving light spot |
Squigwig | Generates mathematical circles |
Stained Glass | Produces quilt-like patterns |
Steam Rollin'[ii] | Displays a guy driving around squishing toys, snakes and babies. (A take-off on the Mowin' Man module.) |
Stormy Night | Random lightning bolts, with thunderclap sounds |
Strange Attractor | Computer-generated color image |
String Theory | Moire patterns |
Sunburst | Color pattern that appears to come from the Sun |
Supernova | Displays an exploding supernova |
Swan Lake | Swans swim around the desktop |
This Ol' House[ii] | Someone appears to be working on the desktop from the other side with power saws |
Toaster 2K | 10th anniversary module featuring futuristic and mecha versions of the flying toasters |
Toxic Swamp[i] | Parody of Aquatic Realm, but in a toxic polluted swamp with mutated fish and a mob boss |
Tunnel | Makes the screen appear to be a tunnel |
Use Your Own![ii] | Displays multiple images of the users choice moving around the screen |
Vertigo | Colorful rainbow spirals drawn on the screen |
Virex-D | An implementation of the Virex anti-virus utility. Scans for viruses and displays icons in 3D form.[19] |
Voyeur[i] | One appears to be spying on an apartment complex with a big city skyline in the background |
Warp | One appears to be traveling among stars at high speed |
Window Blinds[ii] | Desktop is separated into columns and then each one turns like a window blind |
Wrap Around | Draws three-dimensional loops |
Wrecking Ball[ii] | A wrecking ball appears to demolish the desktop |
You Bet Your Head | Playable quiz game featuring three colored 'heads' that are smashed by a hammer if one supplies the wrong answer to a question |
Zoom! | Creates colorful triangular tubes |
Zot | Attempts to generate lightning |
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(help)..After Dark 2.0 for Windows will add digitized sound and the capability to turn any After Dark display into wallpaper. Berkeley Systems Inc.'s screen-saver utility is due to ship this month for $49.95..
..Berkeley Systems, maker of the popular screen saver After Dark for Windows, is now shipping a new ..Version 2.0.