As noted by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, developer Jeff Halter has released a new Afterglow app that allows you to run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS versions.
"Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules -- the original 68k module code, not a remake or port -- with no dependencies on ROMs or classic Mac OS," said Halter, who has several fun nostalgic projects, such as After Dark space shooter Lunacy and HyperCard player Stacks.
Jeez, I had completely forgotten about the Star Trek versions. I used to have Spock wandering around my screen shooting a phaser, taking tricorder readings, and mind melding with a Horta.
This is awesome. ST-TNG modules are going to be copied from my old Macs tonight!
👋 Hi, Afterglow developer here.
fun fact. In college I wrote the Points of View module for After Dark 4.0. Its just 3d objects made of dots rotating / bouncing around the screen.
Not very impressive these days.
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