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My next purchase was More After Dark, which added 25 more modules to After Dark 2.0. Did ya ever wonder how’d they do that? Take one part Flying Toasters, another part Warp and Voila! Toasters in Space!

MultiModule: Whadda ya get when you take two or more of your favorite modules and throw ’em all together? MultiModule of course! The idea here was to take two or more modules and combine them into one to create even more awe and bewilderment.

An example of this would be in one Randomizer, you could have all the After Dark 2.0 modules and in another you could have all the Star Trek models just to keep things all nice and tidy! You could even have multiple Randomizers. You could have the modules follow in order or at random. A slider bar would let you select the interval of time each module would be displayed before moving onto the next.

Randomizer: Ever get tired of clicking on each individual module? Or perhaps you’re one of those who likes to shuck and jive things up? A little pizzazz if ya will… Instead of selecting each module to run manually, you could add as many to the Randomizer as you wished.

This inspired more creativity, which in turn led to finding more talented artists in the screen saver genre. Some of those same modules found their way into future versions of After Dark. Berkeley Systems even held contests annually for the best module.

Roll Your Own Modules: Anyone could try their hand at creating their own modules.

Three of After Dark’s biggest draws were: With eyes glued to the screen, I stayed up late into the night watching in awe as the artwork and images flooded the screen and my memory.įrom that point on, I was a devoted After Dark fan. Once installed, I was in complete awe of each and every module.

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After more looking, I spotted the manual as I started about the process of installing After Dark. I checked out the box and got this feeling, “This is gonna be cool!”ĭigging through the box, I found the installation floppy neatly placed in its envelope.

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I still have fond memories of that day – a relative of mine gave me a piece of software known as a “screen saver”, which I had never heard of.

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While I was still in the PC world, my first experience with a screen saver was with After Dark 2.0. For a more in-depth history of Magic as well as After Dark, check out the Software Dynamics website.) The Birth of After Dark (Stewart and MacDonald were the creators of the Magic screen saver, which was the first screen saver for Windows.

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Through this collaboration, After Dark for Windows was born. Later, Berkeley Systems, the publisher of After Dark, along with Jack Eastman and Patrick Beard, would team up with Bill Stewart and Ian MacDonald at Software Dynamics. Through the artistic foresight and the engineering spirit of two people, Jack Eastman and Patrick Beard, After Dark was born. Yep, I see that grin on your face! Those were only a few of the wonderful modules that were a part of the unforgettable screen saver known as After Dark.Īfter Dark will forever be remembered as the screen saver that got the screen saving boom started in the 90s. Remember the squadron of Flying Toasters flying across your computer screen? Aquatic Realm, anyone? How ’bout Starry Night to light up the night? Old timers, get ready for a time warp here – and even young squirts like myself will remember this one. Ever bought a piece of software back in the day that made you go Wow!? Not being able to wait to open it? Just sensing true greatness lying within the box? Something on that disk you knew without a doubt you’d never forget?

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