Post AsWoMkJaQuTdWNRZNA by plinth@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #AsWiso3ZSQfwfRrBKK by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:09:27Z
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Remember, now is a great time to fill out your registration card.
(DIR) Post #AsWjHMk49L0tBzRbs0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:13:56Z
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I'm installing the 1992 After Dark: Star Trek The Screen Saver
(DIR) Post #AsWjSi4x9yQoYLciWm by JennyFluff@chitter.xyz
2025-03-28T22:15:51Z
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@foone Okay, but does Spaceballs The Screen Saver exist?
(DIR) Post #AsWjWDbkOObLCtdTGq by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:16:35Z
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@JennyFluff sadly not
(DIR) Post #AsWjoAYiT0VAxnmGZM by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:19:49Z
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I'm in.
(DIR) Post #AsWjwqD1UqosSJlXRw by Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-03-28T22:21:23Z
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@foone I can't help myself but read that logo in a "Spaceballs the <x>" voice.
(DIR) Post #AsWk5W4nibuecc3ZKK by scott@sfba.social
2025-03-28T22:22:57Z
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@foone oh man this is bringing back memories
(DIR) Post #AsWk8SZxB8yOdw219U by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:23:10Z
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@CaptMikeYates not in this version! there was another release in 1994, I think, which I think added a bunch more
(DIR) Post #AsWkZHdJyynCVxOgme by superflippy@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-28T22:28:17Z
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@foone The memories! 🥹
(DIR) Post #AsWlR8tOhEcx2jbAuW by hugoestr@functional.cafe
2025-03-28T22:38:04Z
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@foone My favorite! This and the Disney ones
(DIR) Post #AsWmz8RAzkcxQoAgGe by letoram@infosec.exchange
2025-03-28T22:55:22Z
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@foone let there be flying toasters!
(DIR) Post #AsWnAbbisiWl5PZduy by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:57:31Z
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@letoram no toasters here! this is the stand-alone star trek version, so it doesn't include the usual After Dark modules
(DIR) Post #AsWnEfBtV5bJMHQZe4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:58:17Z
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I've long thought it would be fun to reverse engineer the After Dark API that modules use. Make a modernized version that can run on modern systems, just emulate the 16-bit x86 part using a headless QEMU or something
(DIR) Post #AsWnH4D7Rs77XE99k0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:58:38Z
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or a 68k emulator, since they also made a LOT of mac modules
(DIR) Post #AsWnJiJVJkfQUWOZSi by zerodogg@fosstodon.org
2025-03-28T22:58:47Z
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@foone Yes, please!
(DIR) Post #AsWnM2muALkOZPG5HU by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T22:59:24Z
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amusingly enough time has passed that in between when After Dark Windows was released, Windows added and then removed their own screensaver functionality. So we're back to how After Dark worked, where it was a program that just idled in the background
(DIR) Post #AsWnU6RETfVECyxpuy by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T23:01:02Z
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but I'm sure it could be hacked into one of the linux screensaver frameworks without too much difficulty. JWZ probably doesn't want the Windows version in xscreensaver, but maybe the mac version would be acceptable?
(DIR) Post #AsWnkVh0LlP1APAICG by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T23:04:00Z
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anyway for now I'm looking at the windows version. I have way more experience reverse engineering windows shit
(DIR) Post #AsWnx3PAplPhCOo2Pw by yakkoj@fosstodon.org
2025-03-28T23:06:15Z
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@foone I recently had to reinstall all my After Dark for Windows screensaversAD 2.0, Star Trek, More AD, AD 3.0, and The SimpsonsThose early ones can't be installed off a CD-ROM unless you make a specific directory tree for the files. Crufty installers...I also installed the Intermission screensavers I have. At least Delrina's installer is more well-behaved... (and I get Dancing Pig!)
(DIR) Post #AsWoGfcgxqkjESU0JM by yakkoj@fosstodon.org
2025-03-28T23:09:47Z
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@foone jwz isn't even interested in making a Wayland version of xscreensaver (after over 30 years of dealing with X, I don't blame him a bit)
(DIR) Post #AsWoMkJaQuTdWNRZNA by plinth@infosec.exchange
2025-03-28T23:10:54Z
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@foone one of my co-workers at Adobe entered their contest each year. One year he did one called "DOS Shell" that imitated a person typing in DOS commands and wandering the file system. He won $10,000 and it took him all of 10 hours to write. https://tidbits.com/1992/05/04/berkeley-announces-winners/
(DIR) Post #AsWoU9wnWxZX2uJriS by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T23:12:17Z
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@yakkoj does wayland even support screensavers? I thought the point of wayland was to drop support for anything anyone would use
(DIR) Post #AsWoaz1iX1qXCesGbw by neko68k@digipres.club
2025-03-28T23:13:25Z
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@foone windows 11 still supports screen savers its just not exposed anywhere obvious I don't think
(DIR) Post #AsWojbG2H2aq5hgF4C by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T23:15:03Z
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@plinth awesome!
(DIR) Post #AsWq4Lsijjh4RFEZaS by derrydavis@techhub.social
2025-03-28T23:29:56Z
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@foone gotta see the tribbles screen! I had the Disney version.
(DIR) Post #AsWrCNHHWtgd2V6z3I by yakkoj@fosstodon.org
2025-03-28T23:42:39Z
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@foone ha, that's closer to the truth than people want to admit!All I could dig up on Wayland screensaver support is that they're not officially supported, and a lot of people still WANT screensavers, and of course the relevant flame threads
(DIR) Post #AsWrnyvGWti2VWkKUy by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T23:49:26Z
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I found the After Dark 3.0 SDK! https://www.jamessignorile.com/program.html
(DIR) Post #AsWwSu5Zo0Y3CoL01A by itgrrl@infosec.exchange
2025-03-29T00:41:35Z
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@foone @vampiress 👀
(DIR) Post #AsWwhcfEsAy9VW2MDo by gparker@discuss.systems
2025-03-29T00:44:05Z
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@foone I have this as a perpetually-unfinished side project: enough of a 68K Mac emulator to run most Mac After Dark modules in the modern macOS screensaver.
(DIR) Post #AsX0v0tQV9diEVJWIC by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-03-29T01:31:29Z
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@foone port everything to XScreensaver
(DIR) Post #AsX1NZrY4vR0nX3Wk4 by virtualwolf@aus.social
2025-03-29T01:36:40Z
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@foone I always fondly remember After Dark on our old Macs when I was growing up but I had COMPLETELY forgotten about the Star Trek one! 😍
(DIR) Post #AsX40ffobkQG1PKwLo by megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social
2025-03-29T02:06:10Z
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@fooneHi from 2025. Everything is 20 times slower and breaks 20 times as often.
(DIR) Post #AsXB4VzbF5vUpnN2zw by vurpo@mastodon.coffee
2025-03-29T03:25:16Z
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@foone jwz and wayland agree in that it's a bad idea to let any random application "lock" the screen by exclusively locking all input to themselves, but jwz thinks the solution is that there is only one programmer in the world who's good enough to lock your screen, while wayland thinks it's the display server's job to lock your screen rather than random user applications
(DIR) Post #AsXJTKc1USoYPbgfrc by yirggzmb@lasersare.fun
2025-03-29T04:59:25Z
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@foone That's a blast from my childhood
(DIR) Post #AsXoGJXPGrmPtUniEq by cr1901@mastodon.social
2025-03-29T10:43:43Z
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@foone The next dialog will say: "Please fill out your registration card. I'm begging you. I have a wife and kids to feed."
(DIR) Post #AsXt58ndM4BBAvsmDw by tvaughan@mastodon.social
2025-03-29T11:38:18Z
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@foone @yakkoj Cries in `ssh -X`
(DIR) Post #AsYJPnIP68K1N8mebA by gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-03-29T16:33:25Z
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@foone oh, now that's an idea to get a screensaver running under wayland.