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\"Afterglow\"As noted by Daring Fireball<\/em>‘s John Gruber<\/a>, developer Jeff Halter has released a new Afterglow app<\/a> that allows you to run classic After Dark<\/a> screen savers on modern macOS versions.<\/p>\n

“Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules — the original 68k module code, not a remake or port — with no dependencies on ROMs or classic Mac OS,” said Halter, who has several fun nostalgic projects<\/a>, such as After Dark space shooter Lunacy and HyperCard player Stacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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As noted by Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber, developer Jeff Halter has released a new Afterglow app that allows you to run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS versions. “Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules — the original 68k module code, not a remake or port — with no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7050166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11768],"tags":[8281,4364,1332,5357,277,3554,2234,2013,11553,16746,1434,22611,28879,435],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7050165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-2","tag-1990s","tag-app","tag-apple","tag-brings","tag-dark","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-macos","tag-modern","tag-rumors","tag-savers","tag-screen"],"yoast_head":"\nThis New App Brings 1990s 'After Dark' Screen Savers to Modern macOS - 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