I need the Star Trek modules, which I recall waiting overnight to pirate from a BBS on my 14.4k. "Do NOT pick up the phone, mom."
Also Lunatic Fringe - somehow and for some reason a full top down space shoot-em-up in After Dark. Probably for office workers to play, I do recall there was a "boss mode" that pulled up a fake spreadsheet or something.
Thought about doing it as a Linux screensaver, but I didn't have the patience to actually wait for the idle time, and that way I can share it with my non-Linux-using family.
Scramblejams [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.
dylan604 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
"You can also browse and install software releases directly from the Internet Archive without leaving the app. "
That's a fine line being walked there. If they are worried about rights issues and not including the bundles, this seems like a risky FU by building this feature in directly. The part about using bundles you may have without asking questions of origin is fine. Otherwise, why not just include the bundles?
duskwuff [3 hidden]5 mins ago
From a pragmatic perspective: Berkeley Systems went through a long chain of acquisitions in the late 90s/early 2000s and eventually ended up under Vivendi, which hasn't done anything significant with the rights since a Flying Toasters themed J2ME game [1] in 2006. I doubt very much that they're going to do anything.
This is pretty well trod legally. By the user taking a specific action, it makes the user responsible. Comma.ai uses the same technique. Technically their self driving hardware comes with no software. You have to click a button and point it at their GitHub to get the software on it, but it's automatic after that.
schoen [3 hidden]5 mins ago
We lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that).
I'm not sure if this doctrine has continued to be applied to anything else.
jedberg [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That's a good point. The other examples didn't involve copyright.
Hopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it.
ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!
CaliforniaKarl [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I forget, doesn't Audacity also have you do this, if you want to be able to export projects as MP3?
dylan604 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
yes, although the I recently tried doing this on a cloud Ubuntu instance, and it refused to see the .so file
micromacrofoot [3 hidden]5 mins ago
winamp did something similar, you actually had to whip the llamas ass yourself
dallen33 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Has anyone been able to make this actually work as a macOS screensaver? I'm using Tahoe and when I go to System Settings -> Wallpapers -> Screensavers, I don't see any option to select like Afterglow or any of the wallpapers I installed.
jamesfmilne [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yes it works, but you need to enable it in the Afterglow settings first.
temp0826 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I get the nostalgia factor, but is it actually a good idea to use screensavers on modern monitors rather than letting them sleep?
snazz [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Leaving it on all the time would probably dim the backlight eventually more than turning it off, but I’m sure the monitor could handle it. Mostly a waste of energy.
taocoyote [3 hidden]5 mins ago
We need this for the Death Toasters from Opus 'n Bill: Brain Saver
sharts [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I’m surprised still that there hasn’t been a port of the classic old old Windows screensavers.
cube00 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
They're not as satisfying on today's high resolution displays unless you wanted to also redraw the artwork.
CodeWriter23 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Anyone get this running? I installed and downloaded content but cannot figure out how to get it to appear under Screen Savers in System Settings.
nickt [3 hidden]5 mins ago
In screen savers, scroll to the bottom - and click on the easy to miss "Show All" on the right side. You should see Afterglow in the expanded list.
CodeWriter23 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks!
jamesfmilne [3 hidden]5 mins ago
You need to enable the Screen Saver module in the Afterglow settings first. Works great.
general idea, rip the 4k vids from YT and use a video screensaver app
dylan604 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Took a look to links from your link to get to the 4K YT. At first I wasn't that impressed until I realized it was defaulting to 480p. The 2160 stream looks amazing. Sadly, being it's a YT stream, that might be the cleanest I've seen clips from that movie. Color me impressed as I go off to find the full movie like that.
nodesocket [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Is there just the one Mowin' Man in More After Dark?
HN.zip
Also Lunatic Fringe - somehow and for some reason a full top down space shoot-em-up in After Dark. Probably for office workers to play, I do recall there was a "boss mode" that pulled up a fake spreadsheet or something.
They're there. Installable from within the program.
https://b0b.com/ZMODEM.TXT
Of course, the target market of computer users was way smaller than it is today.
The After Dark screensavers are on the internet archive, but obviously they look and run like crap since they're made for Windows 3.x to maybe 95/98.
I would think if this mac After Dark project is open source, the assets would be available to use in other software.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432857
Thought about doing it as a Linux screensaver, but I didn't have the patience to actually wait for the idle time, and that way I can share it with my non-Linux-using family.
That's a fine line being walked there. If they are worried about rights issues and not including the bundles, this seems like a risky FU by building this feature in directly. The part about using bundles you may have without asking questions of origin is fine. Otherwise, why not just include the bundles?
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZSufoTPBs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,....
I'm not sure if this doctrine has continued to be applied to anything else.
Hopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it.
ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!
https://jcs.org/
If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.
Someone went through the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and re-created all of the computer screens, with animation.
It was a masterpiece of mid-century design and space-age optimism.
IIRC, the author got a cease-and-desist demand, and was left to languish and die when Macs went 64-bit only.
general idea, rip the 4k vids from YT and use a video screensaver app