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21 May 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Mazz1983ita
With something like 130 million pieces sold since its debut in 1989, the Nintendo Gameboy is without doubts one of the best selling handheld consoles ever, and one of the pillars of videogame history. The tiny (for the times) 8-bit console teached us...
7 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
A misbehaved dog runs around the desktop and makes mischief. The desktop in this case is Windows ME, it uses the real desktop with what ever files and folders may be on it at the time. The dog interacts with them and digs holes into the wallpaper, dr...
6 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Yellow dogs move across the screen doing spy related things. Like using an dish antenna, or moving top secret boxes, bombs or sniffing the ground as they walk. These yellow dogs are usually seen three at a time on the screen. And spy music is being p...
5 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Similar to the last module Fractals, but in this case spirals and lines are produced. macOS has a screen saver similar but After Dark did it decades before them it would seem. In this module lines are produced, some curved others in a zig zag pattern...
29 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Wooden blocks shaped as the game "Dominoes" are being placed across the screen, different numbers come up and placement changes as the screen resets. I like the clicking sound produced by the moving blocks. Eventhough its a pretty simple screen sa...
27 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
One of the stranger modules Ive come across in the Afterdark Library of Screensavers is the Life & All module. It appears to do calculations on "things" and show the outcomes of such. It may just be all random, my maths are not up to spec to figu...
22 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
In this module there is someone dressed in military looking gear, and messages flash across the screen. There are a bunch of messages that pop up along with geometric designs flashing across the screens. I recorded it for over 20 minutes to catch...
16 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
The clock screensaver has many options to it, you can change the style of the clock and how it displays the time. I left it playing for awhile so the time will change over time along with it moving across the screen. I like its gizmo look to the clo...
4 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
Such a great idea, to turn a computer screen into a fish bowl. After Dark may have been the first to do this, but many have now made Fish screensavers since then. But theres something about the classics I like, and it was still alot of fun watching e...
30 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
A 3D animation of a person walking from painting to painting is loaded when the "Art Critic" is activated in After dark. Default pictures are loaded, and can be changed to whatever you would like. Though I enjoyed seeing the early 1990s Web 1.0 clip...
