This New App Brings 1990s 'After Dark' Screen Savers to Modern macOS

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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. This article, " This New App Brings 1990s 'After Dark' Screen Savers to Modern macOS " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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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.

This article, " This New App Brings 1990s 'After Dark' Screen Savers to Modern macOS " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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