Screen savers are strange, ephemeral things. They show up to guard your monitor from the heartbreak of burn-in while you're away, and then disappear the moment you return. They often provide a little passive amusement too, in the form of fish swimming, stars shooting, toasters flying, or dogs peeing, but some could be coaxed to stick around a bit and provide a little more interactive diversion.
In Lunatic Fringe, you play a tiny, cutesy, retro-futuristic rocketship tasked with defending the Galactic Fringe from evil purple blobs, mace-wielding alien ships, four-way beach ball launchers and the like. In a bit of departure from similar overhead space shooters, your view remains fixed on your spaceship as objects whiz past. Each game starts you at your home base, which you can frequent to refuel and repair battle damage. As you suffer hits, your ships' weapons, RADAR, engines, turn jets, and such become damaged and eventually rendered inoperable. After a couple of hits, you may find yourself spinning helplessly out of control as your ship is mercilessly pounded by enemy fire. If you manage to escape, your ship will slowly repair itself as long as you have parts to spare. Eliminate every enemy in RADAR range and the next level will begin, repopulating the Fringe with a load of new enemies. Even so, your spaceship inhabits a very sparsely populated universe. The Fringe is a very big place, and enemies and obstructions are so few and far between that for most part, the only indications of motion are the dim, single-pixel stars that pass by in the background. Power-ups, like invincibility and weapon boosts are scattered throughout the vastness of Lunatic Fringe, but they're too few and far between to be particularly reliable. Your only real advantage in the game is the fact that your enemies aren't too bright. Most of them won't bother to pursue you for very long, and their weapons fire can be dodged fairly easily if you keep moving. Marathon session of Lunatic Fringe can last a very long time, so long as the enemies don't score a lucky hit on your engines.
Lunatic Fringe's simple, pre-rendered sprites are colorful and smoothly-animated, with a glossy, plasticky look common to CGI of the era. The sound effects are canned cheers, scream, pops, zaps, thumps, and the like, and they lack any real rhyme or reason. They're aural non-sequiturs which give Lunatic Fringe a whimsical, who-gives-a-shit vibe perfectly in keeping with the tone of After Dark.
Admittedly, there's not much depth to Lunatic Fringe. As you progress through the levels, enemies get only slightly less stupid and more numerous. There's no real objective to meet either, beyond the almighty high score, and you might find yourself losing interest in its repetitive gameplay long before you lose all your lives. Still, it always brought a smile to my face when it would pop up after hours spent banging away at whatever school paper I happened to be working on. Spending a little time each night on the Fringe probably helped me graduate high school.
After Dark may be dead and gone, but Lunatic Fringe lives on in the Lunatic Fringe Player available here for Mac OS X. A web-based version is under development here, but it's a work in progress and it's missing most of the original game's features.
After Dark Lunatic Fringe For Windows Vista Free Downloads, List 1 - Download after dark lunatic fringe for windows vista software Menu. Submit Software. After Dark Lunatic Fringe For Windows Vista Downloads. Pages: Go to 1 2 3 Freeware Mac. For those who have Tiger and just want the classic Flying Toaster screen saver, thanks to a company called Uneasy Silence you can download Retro Flying Toasters for free. For those who loved Lunatic Fringe, which was a part of More After Dark, you can get your fix from Sealie Software.
Lunatic Fringe is one such diversion. It's a screen saver module bundled with Mac versions of After Dark released in the early 90s. When it starts, it presents a title screen and a high score table. Like any good screensaver, moving the mouse or pressing most keys on the keyboard immediately dismisses it. But hit the caps lock and you're transported to an incredibly adorable battle for galactic dominance.In Lunatic Fringe, you play a tiny, cutesy, retro-futuristic rocketship tasked with defending the Galactic Fringe from evil purple blobs, mace-wielding alien ships, four-way beach ball launchers and the like. In a bit of departure from similar overhead space shooters, your view remains fixed on your spaceship as objects whiz past. Each game starts you at your home base, which you can frequent to refuel and repair battle damage. As you suffer hits, your ships' weapons, RADAR, engines, turn jets, and such become damaged and eventually rendered inoperable. After a couple of hits, you may find yourself spinning helplessly out of control as your ship is mercilessly pounded by enemy fire. If you manage to escape, your ship will slowly repair itself as long as you have parts to spare. Eliminate every enemy in RADAR range and the next level will begin, repopulating the Fringe with a load of new enemies. Even so, your spaceship inhabits a very sparsely populated universe. The Fringe is a very big place, and enemies and obstructions are so few and far between that for most part, the only indications of motion are the dim, single-pixel stars that pass by in the background. Power-ups, like invincibility and weapon boosts are scattered throughout the vastness of Lunatic Fringe, but they're too few and far between to be particularly reliable. Your only real advantage in the game is the fact that your enemies aren't too bright. Most of them won't bother to pursue you for very long, and their weapons fire can be dodged fairly easily if you keep moving. Marathon session of Lunatic Fringe can last a very long time, so long as the enemies don't score a lucky hit on your engines.
Lunatic Fringe's simple, pre-rendered sprites are colorful and smoothly-animated, with a glossy, plasticky look common to CGI of the era. The sound effects are canned cheers, scream, pops, zaps, thumps, and the like, and they lack any real rhyme or reason. They're aural non-sequiturs which give Lunatic Fringe a whimsical, who-gives-a-shit vibe perfectly in keeping with the tone of After Dark.
Admittedly, there's not much depth to Lunatic Fringe. As you progress through the levels, enemies get only slightly less stupid and more numerous. There's no real objective to meet either, beyond the almighty high score, and you might find yourself losing interest in its repetitive gameplay long before you lose all your lives. Still, it always brought a smile to my face when it would pop up after hours spent banging away at whatever school paper I happened to be working on. Spending a little time each night on the Fringe probably helped me graduate high school.
After Dark may be dead and gone, but Lunatic Fringe lives on in the Lunatic Fringe Player available here for Mac OS X. A web-based version is under development here, but it's a work in progress and it's missing most of the original game's features.
A recreation of the Flying Toasters screensaver that was part of the After Dark series of original screensavers for the Apple Mac operating system. Bread toasters with wings and toasted slices of bread fly through the screen against a solid black background.
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Installation instructions
Microsoft Windows
- Extract the screensaver file from the After Dark Flying Toasters ZIP file you downloaded, to the Windows folder on your hard drive, usually located at C:Windows.
- Right-click the screensaver file where you copied it and select 'Install'.
Apple Mac OS X
- Double-click the 'After Dark Flying Toasters.saver' contained within the ZIP file you downloaded to install the screensaver.
- If OS X complains the program can't be opened because it is 'from an unidentified publisher,' right-click the screensaver file and select 'Open', then click 'Open' again.
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We have 2 files for 'After Dark: Flying Toasters'
- After Dark Flying Toasters Win.zip (Windows)
- After Dark Flying Toasters Mac.zip (Mac)
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File name | After Dark Flying Toasters Win.zip |
Target system | Microsoft Windows |
File size | 29.14 kB (29,843 bytes) |
File type | ZIP archive |
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Detection ratio | 0/14 (0%) View report |
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Total downloads | 19,603 |
Last downloaded | 3 hours ago |
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MD5 | da8d8a7593e3eccc502a7c4549a17a5f |
SHA1 | ab37b4a520b7ce8734a7dcd2bf5dcd0cbd709d63 |
SHA256 | 8bd6b144775ea67858e528cbd776be8b7882c11e4b448ac2df10343ca7dd1f98 |
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File name | After Dark Flying Toasters Mac.zip |
Target system | Apple Mac |
File size | 21.47 kB (21,989 bytes) |
File type | ZIP archive |
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Detection ratio | 0/14 (0%) View report |
Popularity | |
Total downloads | 9,268 |
Last downloaded | 2 hours ago |
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MD5 | 367632dfd4c3565f411a7d234e7ead9a |
SHA1 | e3771fa13e9ab0148bc5873a9cbad06b3e19580e |
SHA256 | f46267efafe37b8d094b9449a5d9d3413e683bed26a4d8ae8db2df717fe791cf |
User reviews (35)
Nostalgia at its finest!
by DougInMaine on August 11, 2020
I nearly wept when I got this to work on my laptop and external monitor; I can't believe how long it's been since I had the first version of After Dark! and how much I've missed it. The best dose of nostalgia I've had in a while!
Note the security tips: https://www.screensaversplanet.com/help/guides/mac/file-cant-be-opened-because-it-is-from-an-unidentified-developer-38
by amkaplan on July 29, 2020
Doesn't work if you're using nVidia surround
by Vorden on July 3, 2020
For the first time in 20 years, I have flying toasters on my computer! It takes me back to high school and installing After Dark onto my 386SX-16 with a whopping TWO MEGABYTES of RAM (!) and watching those toasters stutter and jerk across the screen; today they glide effortlessly across the screen on my dual core i5 MacBook Pro. My, how times have changed.. Adobe digital editions 3.0 mac download.
by Regan on June 14, 2020
Yep. definitely loved it in the early 90s on my Quadra when working at an oil company in Lagos. Great stuff!!!
by big jimi naija on April 28, 2020
The screen saver is very nice. I wished there would be all the other afterdeck modules incl. Disney and StarTreck available for MacOS X. My only problem in Mac Catalina is that every once in a while the system pops up and requests to move the screensaver to the Trash Bin since from an unidentified developer. Although I go to the privacy settings preferences to allow opening the screensaver, it happens over and over again. Its a bit disturbing. Any one has the same issues and maybe a solution to this problem?
by Roger on April 28, 2020
It's not codesigned. Therefore, I can't trust it on my system. Very disappointed.
by Doesnt Matter on April 26, 2020
Works great for me on my MBP running 10.15.4 - across my 30' Cinema Display and 2 x 27' 1080i screens all at once!
Shame there's no configurable settings - so a star off for that.
But otherwise I'm awash with nostalgia!
by Nick on March 2, 2020
Reminds me of my childhood. You should allow for multiple monitor settings, though.
by Chris Kreschollek on November 25, 2019
Great screensaver. No settings, alas. But it's free and works on Catalina! I like the retro stuff. This a feel-good screensaver.
by Isotizer on November 2, 2019
Sadly doesn't work on XP for me :/ 2 stars
by zoomer4548 on October 21, 2019
Major Love for Flying Toasters. Really Relax My Mind.
by Carlos Sosa on October 20, 2019
Fantastic. I wish operating systems had more character like they did in the good old days. Nowadays everything is so sterile and there's no way at all to add personal touches to your environment. Sad. But this screensaver really helps bring back the memories of better OS days. Very, very well done.
by John Schilling (StimpSoft) on September 5, 2019
Great to have a FREE version that works with Windows 10.
(I have home version with all updates as of 7/2019).
Installed and worked no problems.
(I have home version with all updates as of 7/2019).
Installed and worked no problems.
by Chris on July 16, 2019
great! pity that you haven't any personalization about dimensions, speed.. but ok, it's freeware :)
by fabrizio g on February 21, 2019
I think they are a great piece of art and they are very much missed, I flourished with them growing up with Windows 3.0, 98 and XP.
I would also like to see an updated Free Agent Screen savers like Morface, On Patrol, etc..
I would also like to see an updated Free Agent Screen savers like Morface, On Patrol, etc..
by Monk Paloo on December 2, 2018
https://nptwez.weebly.com/ms-project-2011-for-mac-free-download.html. Nice touch of nostalgia - works fine on Mojave. (OS 10.14)
by Ox on October 3, 2018
Great Screensaver! Only Problem is that it Does Not Work on Mac OS 10.6.8.
by Mastergeko4 on September 20, 2018
Not optimized for 4k screen. The instants of the toasters disappear before they are out of the screen, and none of them reaches the bottom left of the screen.
by Joa on July 25, 2018
Its Does Not Have Any Of The Customization The Original Had
3 stars
3 stars
by Collin Anderson on June 21, 2018
Works perfectly on Mac OS on both single and multiple display setups.
by Jay on April 12, 2018
Sadly does not work on multiple monitors, and doesn't even make the second monitor black, wanted to like this, but that's unfortunate :-(
by BoFiS on April 4, 2018
After Dark Screensaver Mac Download Lunatic Fringe Full
Very nice. It reminds on former times working with Windows XP. Now I have installed the screensaver to Windows 10 Pro x64 Version 1709. To install the screensaver copy the scr-file to C:WindowsSystem32. To activate goto settings-personalization-lockscreen, scroll to last entry: settings screensaver.
by Horst Hader on December 21, 2017
Thank you! Really well executed/ported. I missed it! Works great!
by Eric on November 22, 2017
Still have the original CD and run it on my XP machine. Shortly updating my machine and hope I can get it to run on Windows 10.
I like the falling bouncing balls (Marbles) the best.
I like the falling bouncing balls (Marbles) the best.
by Jim Butterworth on November 20, 2017
Thank you for bringing this back!
by Michel Larocque on September 24, 2017
Love it1
by Mitc h. on September 6, 2017
Kool aid and frozen pizza mac miller download. THIS IS SO GREAT! Thank you for porting this over! :))))
by Eric on August 18, 2017
Great thing, finally!
Suggestions for a new version:
user can use a configuration menue to define
- background image and foreground image (that reflects on toasters)
- light brightness and adjust color (affects flying items only)
- light location (affects flying items only)
Suggestions for a new version:
user can use a configuration menue to define
- background image and foreground image (that reflects on toasters)
- light brightness and adjust color (affects flying items only)
- light location (affects flying items only)
by Hirnsausen on April 20, 2017
nostalgia, nice nostalgia
by ih on March 21, 2017
I can watch it forever, like I used to do. Toasters fly a bit too smoothly, though.
by Kota on March 15, 2017
Pretty good. In fact I love it! Except - no sound. I miss the Flying Toasters anthem
Flying out of the sun
The smell of toast is in the air
When there's a job to be done
The Flying Toasters will be there!
Flying out of the sun
The smell of toast is in the air
When there's a job to be done
The Flying Toasters will be there!
Screensaver Mac Os X
by Sean on February 8, 2017
MMmmMM.. tasty.
by Toast on January 30, 2017
OMG the nostalgia! Runs so smoothly too.
by Perry Bruns on July 1, 2016
Reminds me good memories!
by Colin on June 9, 2016
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