Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Freeware
Flying Toasters screen saver for everyone
Berkley Systems' After Dark screen saver might have been the greatest screen saver collection that ever lived. Immortalized on VH1's "I Love the 90's" and running on old Macs everywhere (I still have my floppy versions), it was insanely great. Who could forget the ubiquitous Flying Toaster? Well, UNEASYsilence hasn't. Dan has posted up a free version for Mac and PC (although you could hold out and tell people to switch to get it), complete with toast, and I couldn't be happier. All I know is that in college I spent way too much time looking at all those screen savers. And I have yet to find a replacement for that shoot 'em up game (with the purple spaceship) that came with it. What was the name of that?[Via digg]
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Javier Pedreira (Wicho) said 10:13AM on 10-18-2005
Lunatic Fringe.
I spent entirely too many hour playing it ;-)
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Pedro Monteiro said 11:10AM on 10-18-2005
Lunatic Fringe, right! I loved it! Those sound effects! It also took quite a lot of hours from my life too (that and with Crystal Quest).
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cappy said 11:25AM on 10-18-2005
Lunatic Fringe! Best game ever. Hands down.
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Jason said 12:05PM on 10-18-2005
My brother and I were obsessed with Lunatic Fringe. We'd play until our dad kicked us off because he needed the computer.
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ubrgeek said 12:39PM on 10-18-2005
If you still have the floppy, you can play the game in OS X: http://www.sealiesoftware.com/fringe/
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Patrick Haney said 3:01PM on 10-18-2005
Lunatic Fringe. That was great because my high school had locked down all of the Mac labs (we had 2 PCs in the entire school) with At Ease, which didn't let us into the Finder. But if we did get in somehow (and we did), we could set the screensaver to be Lunatic Fringe, giving us access to the game any time we wanted rather than do our work.
Once again proving that sometimes, to be a slacker, you have to be a hacker too.
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