- #Looking at previous pictures on mac screen saver install#
- #Looking at previous pictures on mac screen saver update#
Ironically, some of these screensavers look 5 times better now on the newer crisper monitors than they ever did on the old CRTs. There were many other people doing screensavers at this time because the computer's capacity had grown a huge amount, but then the desktop era peaked as phones showed up. There's just no market for this work now. He developed a saver called the Nirvana Engine, which I'm now looking for a legacy version of. There was also a later period in early OSX screensavers in the early 2000s, when some people like Hisashi Hoda created some really pretty screensavers that were a definite step forward in gradation, detail, and movement. You can pixellate modern imagery to make it look retro, but the original is always the original. It's totally retro, but at this point, also fairly nostalgic. The fractals were hilariously chunky and slow. Of course, you were limited to pretty chunky graphics, nothing like the fluid motion and gradations you can get now. They would stall out briefly, and parts of one screensaver would get sucked into another, bleed through, etc.
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If you included the slideshow, you got some crazy results, especially because the graphics chips would kind of choke on the mixes. The coolest thing about After Dark, which I still don't see today, although you could do it in After Effects (sort of) was the Multimodule, where you could layer 3 or 4 screensavers into one another in different shapes. I just looked AFD up on Wikipedia, and you should check it out.
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#Looking at previous pictures on mac screen saver update#
The weird thing is that AFD did update the complexity of the modules, and stored the older ones in a different folder. You actually need a G3 to run the mainline AFD version, though maybe a G4 ran AFD 4.0.
#Looking at previous pictures on mac screen saver install#
I had a G4 dual 530mhz? that wouldn't install pre OS 9.1. This was when you needed the floppy disks to install it. Maybe a later version did run (4.0), but somewhere around this time, After Dark stopped existing and I didn't pay for the upgrade, so I stopped at 3.0. You have to find a computer than runs UNDER 9.1 because for some reason, After Dark stopped working at that point.