I really wish someone would go about purchasing the rights and recreating the modules in a fashion that would be usable in both MacOS X and Windows XP. No more Bad Dog to tear up the desktop, or any of the other onslaught of well crafted screensavers of the Berkeley Systems tongue-in-cheek ilk. Yes, it is but a sad, sad day that there will be no more flying toasters floating across computer screens. pmįROM: Marcus Mackey DATE: Wednesday Ap- 3:02:41 pm Berkeley, whether under the Sierra umbrella or not, succumbed to the same fate. Now, Sierra is but a shell of its former self because it didn’t keep up with the times. The interesting part of the whole story is that Berkeley was bought out by Sierra – formerly Sierra On-Line – which also used to be a highly profitable company. And you can still get Jack, but who doesn’t have it already?
There are dozens of free screensavers out there.
#After dark games for mac os x software
While you can still buy AD, why? It doesn’t work on Win 2000 or Mac OS 9, and as their FAQ points out, upgrading software is cost prohibitive. But they outsourced that to won.net last year. Oddly enough, Jack was similar to AD in that it was a bit of a prelude to what was coming down the pipe: online gaming.īerkeley’s embraced that, too the game network Bezerk was one of the first commercially successful net gaming sites. Jack turned out to be the future of the company, and as the 123 different versions of Jack can attest to, it’s been profitable. AD fell by the wayside as Berkeley hit it big with a little Jellyvision program you might’ve heard of called You Don’t Know Jack. Who could forget the Flying Toasters? Lawnmower Man? The Simpsons version of AD?Īpparently, everyone.
AD was created in a time before Windows 95 made screensavers truly integrated, and it was created with flair. You remember Berkeley Systems, don’t you? They made After Dark, the first wildly popular commercial screensaver.
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