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The two screensavers that I remember most are Star Field and Flying Toasters. Star Field isn't all that whimsical, but luckily Flying Toasters more than makes up for that. Now, your modern Mac can sport flying toasters and toast thanks to Uneasy Silence.Customize your desktop. While in the Finder, control-click (right-click) and choose 'Show View Options'. A box will appear allowing you to change the size of desktop icons, their spacing, text size and the position of icon labels.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
homan2 said 11:50AM on 10-20-2006
OMG! I remember paying 30$ for those flying toasters back in like 96.
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V. Mardian said 11:38AM on 10-20-2006
Screensavers are fun but the best way to save your screen is to simply turn it off.
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Dan Ridley said 11:39AM on 10-20-2006
But...but... where's the karaoke?
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Travis Bell said 11:42AM on 10-20-2006
Heh, cool.
Goes good with the BSG themed Glarkware shirt "frakkin toaster"
http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c188252p16758170.2.html
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totoro said 11:52AM on 10-20-2006
fun fact that may interest only me: the flying toaster devs took their profits from that and started moveon.org
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JR said 11:53AM on 10-20-2006
I miss After Dark so much.
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Troy McClure SF said 1:03PM on 10-20-2006
After Dark came out with a Twisted edition that was hilarious. Mime Hunt, Voyeur, Bungee Cows... man. I'd watch those things for hours.
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HDSalinas said 12:11PM on 10-20-2006
fun fact that may interest only me: the flying toaster devs took their profits from that and started moveon.org
If I knew that I would never had bought it.
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Sam Goldman said 12:50PM on 10-20-2006
fun fact that may interest only me: the flying toaster devs took their profits from that and started moveon.org
If I knew that, I would have bought it.
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Clark Goble said 12:41PM on 10-20-2006
Wow, if I'd known what moveon.org would reap I'd not have bought the toasters either.
Actually it was a few of the other screen savers on that disk I liked back. Wasn't there one of a kid jumping and bouncing through an art gallery?
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Donald Burr said 2:32PM on 10-20-2006
Don't forget the Star Trek edition either. I used to run the alien brain cells one (you know, those flying pancake-like things from the episode "Operation: Annihilate"). I love the squishy noises they made.
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JR said 1:39PM on 10-20-2006
The mime hunt was so... twisted! My favorites, though, were the trippy modules like Satori and Nirvana. Good times.
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narco said 2:20PM on 10-20-2006
There are a few really cool screen savers that I want to use, but my friends really enjoy the iTunes album artwork one. If I change it they get mad, so I'm stuck with that I guess.
Fishes,
narco.
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Macobyte said 4:14PM on 10-20-2006
My favorite was the "Lunatic Fringe" space game, lol. I guess I was in the first grade at the time, if you add up all the hours I played that it would probably equal an entire year of my life... I wish I could find a port for OS X...
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Tom Robinson said 7:17AM on 10-21-2006
Oh man the memories! I was actually looking for a clone a few months ago but didn't find anything worthwhile. This is great!
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Donald Burr said 5:49PM on 10-20-2006
Oh, man, Lunatic Fringe... I LOVED that game. IIRC it was done by the same guy who did another favorite game of mine, Solarian II. Ben Heller - was that his name?
I especially loved the sounds that he used in his games, both Solarian and Fringe.
Unfortunately my copy of After Dark (including Lunatic Fringe) is long lost. But I still have a copy of Solarian II on one of my disks somewhere. Now if only I could get a decent Mac emulator going on my MacBook Pro...
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MacCrazy said 7:17PM on 10-20-2006
I remember using After Dark on an early build of Mac OS X to use After Dark (and play Lunatic Fringe)! I still have the floppies at home - just no floppy drive any more! It was an awesome game - someone should port it!
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thomas said 7:23PM on 10-20-2006
What's wrong with moveon.org? I was under the impression that Mac users were fairly liberal. Al Gore uses a Mac in his "Inconvenient Truth" don't he?
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scottb said 8:49PM on 10-20-2006
PLEASE do not lump all Mac users with the LEFT.
Thank god there are many of us not on the left.
You'll see someday that following those Socialists was the downfall of America.
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Clark said 10:33PM on 10-20-2006
Afterdark - I miss those days.
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