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ToasterClone - A class screensaver reborn

dyn.uneasysilence.com — Back when geeks wore pocket protectors, Windows was the de facto operating system, and cool computers were beige, After Dark created an instant classic. ToasterClone plays tribute to the retro Flying Toasters screensaver and comes in two downloadable flavors - OS X & Windows.

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  • whalesalad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Used to run this on my old Quadra 610. Those were the good ol' days. Sweet screensaver!!
    • ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10What does the limited version of windows differ from the full mac version? I hope there isnt any logo tagging, since its not even their idea.
    • SoCalChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The best screensaver was the "After Dark: Totally Twisted Collection".

      Mowin' Boris & Bungee Roulette were great, the others on there were good too.
    • DickBreath, on 10/12/2007, -23/+4Here again we see that in the whole decade from 1984 to about 1996, Windows was so far behind that Windows users thought it was in front.

      You know what platform After Dark (screensaver with flying toasters) came out on first?
      Macintosh.

      You know what platform Microsoft Excel came out on first?
      Macintosh.

      You know what platform Microsoft's GUI Word processor came out on first?
      Macintosh

      (Repeat with numerous other items, including many things that were copied from Mac but from different companies, different brand names, etc.)

      I haven't been a Mac zealot since about 1997, but I just hate to see revisionist history. Real geeks in the 1980's used Macs. :-)
    • noneroy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Do you know who shot themselves in the foot, fired Steve Jobs, made a boat load of questionable business decisions, lost all their market share and has never quite recovered?

      Macintosh.

      I'm not a Windows fanboy by any extent, but this 'APPLE DID IT FIRST' stuff gets old. Can't we just enjoy the freaking article? But since you insist....

      Yes, they may have and yes their products may be vastly better than anything Microsoft does, but they have a long road ahead of them before they can touch Microsoft's market share. Were he alive, you could ask Elisha Gray about how being first doesn't mean you win.
    • d3dm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Settle down kids. Now let me tell you about what sort of graphics work I was doing on my Amiga 1000 back in 1985...
  • jasonwert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I still have a copy of The Simpsons After Dark screensaver. Won't install in XP though...
    • Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had that one as well. I like how some of the scenes would use your real program icons and application names and mix them with the on screen action. The change in interface from the windows 3.1 days is probably why it doesn't work anymore.
    • overand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The Simpsons After Dark screensaver for windows 3.11 had the best checkbox option I've ever seen: In the 'Homer eats your screen' screensaver, there was a checkbox labelled: Butt Cleavage.
    • ModernGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love the "Bad Dog" screensaver. There has got to be a way to emulate these savers and get them to run in modern day Win/Mac/Lin.
    • spiritamx79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i still have all those retro screensavers. i agree, i would even pay to be able to use them again.

      Bad dog was cool, i loved it when he would dig a hole, go in it, pull wires and make the screen go crazy
  • SoftwareSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9What was that screensaver that was like a video game where you controlled a little space ship and fought against different computer-generated enemy ships? Anyone remember that?
    • Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2How could a screensaver be a game? Hit one button and ooop....there's the desktop.

      Unless there is something like that......then my concept of screensavers will be thrown into oblivion and my head will explode.
    • shaun3000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Lunatic Fringe

      http://www.sealiesoftware.com/fringe/
    • gonephishin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9shaun3000 is right. the game was lunatic fringe. i used to play it all the time. and yes, it was part of the after dark screensaver pack.

      @Phocion55
      obviously you could use the keyboard and mouse. just push the escape key and it all disappeared.
    • reiggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Shaun3000, you are my hero. Well, close. I've been wishing for a standalone Lunatic Fringe app for the past 10 years nearly. I say "close" because I would really like one that doesn't require me to reinstall Classic and would run natively in OS X or Windows.
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Holly Crap I remember that! Thanks!
    • kimrules, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3shaun3000: Wow, THANKS! That link deserves a Digg on its own.

      edit: ARGH, it needs Classic (ie. won't run on recent Macs). shaun3000 is a tease! :-)
  • jla1987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've got my old After Dark Star Trek Screensaver on a couple floppies around here somewhere...
  • craigts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Don't they have a patent on the idea of displaying a flying toaster on a screen?

    'You are so sued!'
    • xistboi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I am under the opinion it is abandon ware - However is anyone has a problem contact us at tips@uneasysilence.com and I will address any concerns.
    • craigts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It was just sarcasm...
  • advcomp2019, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I loved Johnny Castaway but it does not work in Windows XP that well. Unless someone knows where I can get one.
    • IceSabre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I loved how he eventually gets rescued and goes back to work in a boring office job and stares longingly at the island screensaver he has on his computer.

      The holiday specials were really cool too. Like for christmas or halloween.

      I kinda miss that screensaver too. Maybe somebody should come out with a retro best of screensaver pack.
    • djuniah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You can get him here(a win XP fullscreen version as well):
      http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gnudawn/johnny/index.html

  • foxmajik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Windows still has a majority of the market share, I still wear a pocket protector and my computer is still in a beige box. Bug my boring beige box will stomp all over your iFruit.
    • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1LOL. We all have beige boxes - some just hide them in the closet or under the bed.
  • fak3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Shouldn't that be "A classic screensaver..."

    Also, xscreensaver has had 'Flying Toasters 3D' for a long time now:
    http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
  • baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5KDE's screensavers and xscreensaver (both for Linux & BSD has some of the prettiest screensavers i ever seen)
  • jasonuscg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The Opus & Bill version was better...
    • cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3second that
    • jasonwert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I had a copy of that screensaver also, It was great.
    • jasonuscg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@jasonwert

      Did you have the one with wings or the helo version? Both were a riot.
  • joerod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i love it! i remember using this screen savers
  • jonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sweet!

    kind of counter-intuitive on the "speed" setting, though. higher numbers are slower!
    • xistboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yea there are bugs here and there - thats why it is open source. Hoepfully somebody will help us improve it and make it a .saver
  • MrSomeone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3After Dark was awesome, too bad it doesn't work on XP ;[
  • xamado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The toaster screensaver comes with every linux distro, it's part of xscreensaver. Of course it's an imitation of the AfterDark one, but no need to download anything, you already get it ;)
    We are retro, we are.
  • avihappy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I like this one.
  • overand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10When it comes to old After Dark screensavers, one of the ones I miss the most is the default, "Starry Night" - it built a randomized cityscape at night, with lights in buildings turning on and off. It was actually pretty nice.
  • chibimmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does anyone else remember one of the other old screen savers that played Rock Paper Scissors?
    • jasonwert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4After Dark 4.0 had Rock Paper Scissors where they walked around and attacked each other as they met on the screen.
  • andrewober, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I had the Johnny Castaway screen saver back a year or two ago working in windows XP, but it would only show up about 640x480 centered on the screen...


    UUUGHH!
    Mnmnnmmmmnnnumnummmm!...

    UUUGHH!
  • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4On XP, mine has no toast... just toasters.
  • bleonard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I used to run this on my old PowerMac 7200/75
  • unpopulardude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Anybody see the Star Wars satire/tribute Hardware Wars? Great Flying Toasters!

    "When George Lucas created the world of Star Wars over twenty-five years ago, he also inspired an alternative world inhabited by the "Original" Flying Toasters, Deadly Waffle Irons, and Hot Cinnamon Buns. A world called Hardware Wars." http://www.mwp.com/films/hardware-wars/
  • EvilTesdall, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1mac users don't need screensavers! .... they are to leet for that!
  • xN8x, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1anyone remember "Dumpin' Dan"?
  • punx45, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0my monitor has a built in screen saver.
  • fiendlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about MST3K's screensaver for Manos - The Hands Of Fate. Torgo would walk around the screen and say things like, "The master would not aprove of burn-in". All with the haunting Torgo theme music in the background. Those were good times!
  • DaBlade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
    Flying toasters on X11-based systems too ;)
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Bill the Cat screen saver!!

    I would like to see a flying toaster spoof but with Cylons as the toasters like this T-shirt: http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c188252p16758170.2.html ...
  • karebu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0haha cute!
  • ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hmm, the toasterclone disk image wouldn't mount for me.

    I've had this flying toaster screen saver on my machine for some time now:
    http://www.wurst-wasser.net
    Click on Software Projects Overview.
  • jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How do you get classic mode of the screensaver working? like the one without colours.
    • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The OS X preference pane has the option. Scroll down in the screen-saver options.
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