#after dark screensavers

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

do gen z and really young millenials realize that the most popular screensavers of the 1990s had SOUND?

I feel like it's important that y'all know that the After Dark screensavers, which were basically the most popular not-automatically-provided-with-Mac-or-Windows screensavers around, had sound. And were a thing. DO THE GEN Z BABIES KNOW SCREENSAVERS????? I SEE SO FEW THESE DAYS

[uncannyforest]

Favorite video game?

I helped at a outdoor church retreat for 6th graders this week so I've just been asked this question :)

Unfortunately it's a 4-way tie —

Games that are mysterious:

Coma

Pajama Sam 1, but the demo version (the game ends right when you get to the door of Darkness's room)

Games that involve terraforming:

Bolo

Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2

And because they're so great, the runners up:

Knytt, Ragnarok Online, Donkey Kong 64 multiplayer, Rodger Dodger (from the After Dark screensavers), Pikmin

[uncannyforest]

IS THAT THE AFTER DARK FISH SCREENSAVER? ON MY TUMBLR DASH?

"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"

Great! Here are my recommendations:

[retreattocelestialbodies]

this is SO UNFAIR why do they habe to be HIT WITH THE HAMMER when they get the question wrong. this is not fair they do not know!!they have no braincell!! save them please!

and the hammer man just stands there all casually... he knows what he is doing

[skettchyartendevours]

I know I've shared a small batch of my workplace doodles recently, and I figured I'd share the rest now ^v^

[nedison]

Sparkstember Day 19:

OK so this one's a little tenuous, but follow me here... I was researching different editions of Lil' Beethoven and I saw there was a deluxe version of the album with a CD-ROM component, even boasting a Lil' Beethoven SCREENSAVER.

So what if Sparks had fully embraced the CD-ROM era and released AFTER SPARKS: the official screensaver collection...?

[jeffmumm]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

This is the After Dark module Psycho Deli in action on a PowerMac G4 MDD, booted into MacOS 9. 

And here are some screenshots of the different patterns.  One of them just screams “Dr. Seuss” to me...see if you can figure out which one.

They all move similar to the video, a sort of rotating, pulsating, ever-morphing bunch of Eye Candy that I miss greatly.  I still have the files, just don’t have a Classic-OS-Era Mac now.

And a video I made of my old Mac Portrait monitor with the Flying Toasters playing, with music from a CD of ambient tunes I made using my Roland Juno 106.

[purutheseal]

[hcshannon]

Factoids you just can't stop telling people

*Every time "Smoke on the Water plays*: "This is based on a true story Frank Zappa and the Mothers were playing at Montreux casino when an arsonist burned the building. The Zappa group lost all their equipment and Deep Purple loaned them there's, than the next week in London, Zappa was badly injured when an angry audience member ran up on stage and threw him off!"

*When somebody brings up After Dark screensavers* "Did you know Bad Dog was the only screensaver to have an animated series based on it!"

[pitch-and-moan]

DreamWorks Animation's Flying Toasters

An animated DreamWorks film based on the classic '90s screensaver.

[yhancik]

It starts at 13:06

After Dark - Meadow

[skettchyartendevours]

I was in a very scribbley mood today at my workplace, so I ended up doing some doodles of the Gobots :D These may not be spot on as they were just from memory, but I thought I'd share them seen as I don't usually post my workplace scribbles

Also a small non-Gobot bonus: Flying toasters because I like that one After Dark screensaver :]

[byruit]

After Dark (1989)

[nightingale-prompts]

Introducing Kitten- Batboy AU-DCXDP

First | Previous | Next

Every great hero needs a sidekick but every amazing cat burglar should have a kitten.

Batman was ready for another chase with Catwoman. A Gotham bigwig was hosting a gallery opening with the Amazonian pink diamond as the centerpiece.

Just as expected Catwoman couldn't resist.

"Surrender the jewel Catwoman." Batman ordered as the cat burglar held the pink crystal up in the lowlight.

"But its so pretty~ I thought it would be the perfect gift for my little kitten." She purred.

"I don't think your cats would care. They would probably prefer a can of tuna to a priceless gem." Batman responded preparing to lounge for the diamond.

"Why don't you ask her?"

A shadow jumped out of the darkness grabbed the diamond and landed on the other side of the bat.

"Oh you shouldn't have~ I love it!~" The cheery voice of the shadow said.

Batman turned to see a young girl with twitching cat ears and a long tail waving behind her. She was dressed in a black leotard with a pair of black cargo pants and a cropped leather jacket. Around her neck a jewled collar rested with a little dog tag attached with a bell. Her green eyes glowed with mischief.

"Anything for you." Catwoman smiled.

Just like that Batman's attention was split as Kitten(?) bolted. The girl was fast but stepped carefully not to trigger the sensors. When he looked back Catwoman was gone and Kitten skittered to a stop only for-

*BRRRRIINNNGGG!*

The alarm went off.

He had stepped on a sensor.

"Good game old man! Let's play again sometime!" The girl said before disappearing around a corner.

*1 week ago*

Selina had actually gotten a bit of baby fever after little Nightwing had taken a little bat under his wing. The bat sidekick had been plastered all across the city from Bloodhaven to Gotham, even Metropolis had a few of the advertisements. Batburger even has a batboy meal now. All the candids on Instagram of Batboy's antics were absolutely adorable. Selina made the picture of Batboy shielding a bunch of stay cats under his wings in the rain her screensaver. Bless everyone working together to get as many pictures as possible.

Let's not even mention the time she saw the newest little Robin being carried from across the city by Batboy as they glided.

She would be fine of course after she found an adorable black kitten. She cleaned her up and put her in the warming box for the night. She planned to quarantine her from the other cats in her room. What Selina didn't expect was for the kitten to turn into a girl.

*Present*

Danny felt it again. There was something here. It felt foreign but familiar.

The energy felt reminiscent of...Nocturne? That's not right. No, it felt like primordial energy. Something isn't right.

Someone was here. Someone like him.