Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 11:00 AM CDT

For those of you who have been longing for the day you can run the Flying Toasters screen saver on you brand new MacBook, fret no more! Flying Toasters are here! and ready for OSX!

Now, if I can just find an old TI-99 emulator so I can do some programming in Basic....

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 11:21 AM CDT

Im using it ...I like retro

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 11:32 AM CDT

Now if I can get my old buddy Scott to ressurrect his hilariously demented After Dark screensavers... the "Bungie -jumping cows" (that sometimes splat and turn into a pile of steaks... and the "King on the Throne" (Elvis sitting on a flying toilet). Anybody remember those?
ttfn,
Drakonis (still sometimes hear faint echoes of a voice yelling "Bad dog!")

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 11:34 AM CDT

I remember one screen saver with the flying toasters underwater...

Stunt

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 01:24 PM CDT

God I miss After Dark! I'm sure I've used every one of their screensavers at some point. Definitely will be turning on the toasters.

EDIT: Drat, it doesn't work for me. It's in the right folder but doesn't turn up in the pop-up list. Do I need Tiger for it to work?

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 03:03 PM CDT

According to what I read, OS 10.4 and higher. This was one of my favorite screen savers way back when. Too bad this version doesn't have the sound FX the original did.

Thanks for the link jgurner!!

Drakonis,
I do remember something called After Dark, but maybe it was the name of a particular screen saver. (night sky, shooting stars, ect.)

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 03:16 PM CDT

A little company called "Berkeley Systems" wrote a screensaver package called "After Dark", which had modules in it like "Shooting Stars", "Flying Toasters", etc. They published the module/plugin API, so other people could write their own screensavers and drop them in... this was long long ago. Berkeley also bought a little company that had a crazy game-show thing called "You Don't Know Jack" which was wildly popular for a while. Berkeley is now long gone, but they sold their assets to a Japanese company that still does Mac screensaver stuff I think. I was helping write a screensaver for them that would have "Bad Dog" run out to the mailbox and get your e-mail for you, and display the headers on the screen.

Edit: Duh... if you want the real history, including the link to the Japanese (MacOSX-compatible) After Dark company, click here to read the Wikipedia article about it!
ttfn,
Drakonis

Re:Flying Toasters Are Back!
Monday, October 23 2006 @ 04:07 PM CDT

Quote by: mikey_d According to what I read, OS 10.4 and higher.

Ah. I'm still operating at 10.3.9. Probably going to wait for Leopard to come out and then get a new computer altogether. The toasters will have to wait. Thanks!