Although the package was revived for Mac OS X, it never regained anything resembling its previous glory (see “ After Dark Returns for Mac OS X,” 9 June 2003).
Sadly, After Dark-and its iconic flying toasters-never made the leap to Mac OS 9. After Dark was modular, supporting a fertile ecosystem of independent developers alongside licensed options from franchises like Star Trek, Disney, and Marvel Comics. In the days of After Dark, near the start of TidBITS in the early 1990s, screen savers were a big deal-they regularly made news. MacOS Photo Screen Savers Still Don’t Properly Display Rotated or Edited Images
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