Your After Dark 9 install should now provide access to all of the wild and wonderful screen savers you know and love from After Dark 4.0. From there, copy over the After Dark 4.0 folder’s contents (this is where you will find your beloved flying toasters, and many, many more quirky and fun screen savers) to the same named folder in your Control Panels After Dark Files folder.ĥ/ Repeat this procedure for the After Dark Images folder – copy over the contents of the After Dark 4.0 folder’s After Dark Images folder to the same named folder in your Control Panel folder’s After Dark Files.
The key objective of this step is that a Mac OS 9 compatible version of the After Dark engine has now been installed, and all of the necessary folder structures and support files are now in the right places.Ĥ/ From the After Dark 4.0 that you either have previously installed, or have just acquired from the above URL, open the After Dark Files folder. As mentioned above, it will have only a few boring screen savers available, but those screen savers are not the objective of this step anyway.
Once you have After Dark 4.0, to install a full After Dark for Mac OS 9.x, do the following:ġ/ Download After Dark for Mac OS 9 from the above URL.Ģ/ Install this version of After Dark by dropping the After Dark 9 control panel into your Control Panels folder, and the After Dark Files folder also into your Control Panel folder.ģ/ Restart your Mac and make sure that you can access and run the newly installed After Dark screen saver.
You can do this either by buying it on eBay as I did, or downloading it from at this URL. If you do not already have After Dark 4.0, you will need to acquire a copy. In my case, I had purchased a copy on eBay some time ago, and had it installed on a Mac OS 8.6 machine, so I was “good to go”. To be successful, you will need to have a copy of After Dark 4.0, so lets start with this and get a copy. I have recently installed After Dark onto Mac OS 9.1, flying toasters and all, and this post provides a step by step “recipe” for repeating this feat.įirst things first. Where, oh where are the beloved flying toasters, bad dogs and the rest of the crazy and lovable characters from After Dark 4.0? It has only the most basic of screen savers, After Dark’s initial starry night screen saver. However, when you install it and restart, you may be a little disappointed. Could the problem be with either sharing the resources with another boinc project Or does seti have a problem with Mac OS 10.4. Someone going by the screen name of Daxeria produced this patched version, earning the acclaim and adulation of the entire Mac OS 9 using Macintosh community, I am sure. I seem to have no problem with it on my iMac running a G3 processor and using Mac OS 10.3.9. There is a patched version of After Dark for OS 9 that can be downloaded from the Macintosh Garden site, at. Happily, there is an answer to that, and this blog post addresses it. It has been reported that the After Dark engine is incompatible with Mac OS 9, but for whatever reason, it simply will not work on Mac OS 9 equipped Macs. To the great distress of many people, Mac OS 9 broke something with respect to the beloved and quirky After Dark 4.0 screen saver.