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Modern Flying Toasters

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.

This Quartz Composer screensaver is pretty slick, and best of all it is free. Everybody wins!

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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...
 

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David

Flying Toasters has been available for OS X for a while now, as part of the port of all the X-Screensaver screensavers, by Jamie Zawinski (aka jwz).

October 22 2006 at 8:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bobby

I still have my After Dark floppies in closet. If I remember correctly there was an original, a twisted, a deluxe, Star Trek, Disney, and it seems like there was one more. I liked the kid mowing the grass and hitting cats.

October 21 2006 at 1:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

How cool would the itunes album artwork screensaver be if it could use photos from iphoto (or flickr) instead? someone needs to do this...

October 21 2006 at 1:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
vonjos

yes and don't you talk about Death penalty, abortions and born again christians in this post ?
This is a mac post take it or leave, information is just information. You know perfectly that people will never believe in the same Gods, trust the same politicians. So please go with your political sh.t to MSN.

October 21 2006 at 10:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Clark

Afterdark - I miss those days.

October 20 2006 at 10:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scottb

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.

October 20 2006 at 8:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
queso

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?

October 20 2006 at 7:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MacCrazy

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!

October 20 2006 at 7:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Donald Burr

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...

October 20 2006 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Robinson

Oh man the memories! I was actually looking for a clone a few months ago but didn't find anything worthwhile. This is great!

October 20 2006 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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