Flying Toasters Screen Saver
like Berkeley's old After Dark
Version: 3.0.0
Sigh... still not it...
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: grikdog1 Thursday, November 30 2006 @ 03:37 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
The classic Flying Toasters from After Dark had class. For one thing, the toasters were steel-sided and LOOKED steel-sided, with ambient reflections including toast and other toasters. Blue, they were not. They did not plummet in random directions from the top left corner, but flew IN FORMATION, like geese, with stragglers joining a group and adventuresome toasters zipping off on their own to find their own space and form their own groups. If I recall correctly, there were a number of Options, but I never used them because the toasters were our friends just as they were. After Dark also included a slew of other modules, including synchronized swans and a cityscape with creepy eyes on the bottom edge of the screen and a surreal eldritch moon that you could wrap a bitmap around (including an eyeball). The good old days. This is about halfway there, using the old hacker's formula that 90% of the work comes in the last 2% of the inspiration. Oh, yeah. After Dark sucked. It froze up your IBM PC like clockwork, but it was sure pretty.
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