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Submitted by Nelson
Ah yes, the After Dark screensavers. I remember when people used to pay for screensavers, but I guess if you’re putting down cash for flying toasters, it’s money well spent.
Now, you can download a similar version for free — on Macs and PCs. When the computer goes to sleep, you go nostalgic.
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First post!!! XD
Whatever MARGARET. Go back to the 50’s with the outher trolls.
What have you gained from saying FIRST. Nothing you ret@*d.
Sorry, what’s that? Oh yeah, basement, by yourself, parent’s house. No one likes you, no one will ever love you so GET LOST!
Cheese is your only saviour.
you didnt gain anything from saying all that either, xP
&btw, this is probably one of the best screensavers ever.
who thought of flying toasters??
I found a mac version here. http://www.wurst-wasser.net/Wurst-Wasser.net/Wiki-Uploads/flyingtoasters300.zip
Ha! I still have this on the original disc (won’t install past Win98 though) I liked it better with the music off, that way you can hear the sound effects.
This really is an epic one.
My dad put all the After Dark screensavers on our computer, and before it was updated to Vista, we would turn on the computer and just wait. We especially loved Bad Dog, Marbles, Rock Paper Scissors, and of course, this! Someone make it compatible with Vista!!!
THESE DON’T WORK WITH VISTA!? Dang
I was so p*$$ed!! (I’m kindda new here, so I don’t know which words the filters catch.) I DID find this page where you can get it for XP……
I used to consider After Dark a game. I spent so much time watching those screen savers, especially the confetti factory!
Flying toasters are epic win indeed.
Oh no! The download links have been disabled!
From WIN to FAIL.
I had no idea there was music on that, I guess people always disabled it.
LOVED this screensaver as a kid (and yes… I memorized the song, too xD But now I can’t remember it). This and Bad Dog and some weird screensaver with trivia questions and hitting heads with a hammer were the best!
Definitely epic WIN!
I beleave you mean “You Bet Your Head”
They had some good games on those screen savers!
You Bet your Head was great. We’d also bet on Rat Races and just watch the marbles fall, waiting for the hyper happy honkers.
♫Flying out of the sun
The smell of toast is in the air
When there’s a job to be done
The Flying Toasters will be there
And it’s flap, flap, flap
Now help is on the way
The victory song they sing:
“We pop up to save the day
On mighty toaster wings!”♫
♫In brightest day or After Dark
When times of trouble are at hand
The Flying Toasters set a spark
And hope is blazing cross the land
And it’s flap, flap, flap
Salvation from above
A precious gift they bring
Gleaming angels of love
On Migh-ty Toa-ster Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiings!♫
Yes, I memorized the song. It was a good song. I still think about it every once in a while. I loved the Bad Dog and the Marbles, and I liked You Bet Your Head. They were all so good, but they were also a Resource Hog that caused many Blue Screens. Good times…
i used to think that the program was some kind of game when i was a kid. i’d just sit there and watch all the different screensavers. my favourite was the toasters (of course) but there was another one in the ‘94 version that was a cubist portrait come to life that was browsing an art gallery.
I renember another one – bungeee jumping fat guys, cows and fish. The ropes broke, and the objects fell on teh floor making a bloody mess.
Totally Twisted after Dark….Had some hilarious screen savers.
I don’t remember the screensaver, but we used to have a disk of PC games and one of them featured the flying toaster! You had to fly through a house and gather pieces of bread or something, I don’t remember completely.
I have that one! It’s After-Dark Games, and the goal was to get to the baby’s crib.
I mostly played the mah-jhong (sp?) and solitare games, though when I upgraded my monitor, the pictures became too hard to comfortably see.
I remember those toasters!!
And my other favorite were the lwan mowers that gradually cut the grass on your screen. . .
Heh. I’ve been looking for another copy of After Dark 4 ever since my original disks broke. I always seem to run across them just in time to see someone else get them.
At least a parody with Jet-winged toasters comes standard with xscreensaver for Linux.
Does anyone remember the Flying Toilets version? It had rolls of toilet paper instead of toast.
LOL yeah I remember that one. I still have this CD. I think my favorite was Rodger Dodger, because it actually had a game built-in. AWESOME!!
Yeah, Flying Toilets! One of my favorites, I came in here to mention it. The entire set of screensavers were quite awesome though. But man, Flying Toilets was so funny back when I was a kid. You had the flying toilets and toiler papers, and the guy on the toilet taking a dump, complete with fart noises.
Oh man, my favorite was always the rat race one. Eheheheh. Dare Devil Dan was a close second though, as was Bad Dog and of course the toasters, but to the Wagner’s Flight of the Valkyries.
Yes! Bad Dog and Rat Race! My faves!
@deitarion/SSokolow : As if by chance this morning, I was looking at the screensavers that came with my Ubuntu and I found this flying toasters screensaver. But I don’t remember the original Windows one even if we have computers since MS-DOS.
I also have the “flourishing box” and the improved Pipes one.
What about Bill The Cats screen saver?
I still have my After Dark Deluxe software. It came with Creep Night Ultra Pinball 3d (or something along that), and I used to spend hours playing that before we had internet.
I remember this. After Dark came in modules, this was part of the standard pack, and some disgusting ones people have been mentioning were part of the Totally Twisted pack. There was also a Star Trek one, that had a bunch of TNG screen savers, that were awesome.
I got these to install on my mom’s computer (Windows XP) after about a week of trying different things, because getting software to work on things it’s not supposed to, for some reason, doesn’t work that well!
Oh, and the version of Flying Toasters with “Flight of The Valkyries”, I don’t think I need to say that that was “OMG TEH EPICNESS!” epitomized!
Good stuff… really wholesome, pointless entertainment for kids back when this and minesweeper was about all computers could do.
I enjoyed the Flying Simpsons heads screen saver. Anytime a flyer Smithers head came close to a flying Burns head, the Smithers would revolve around the Burns until they both went offscreen. Subtle and hilarious.
a simillar screensaver (without sound) is included in ubuntu linux
also for free 
The classic Flying Toasters from After Dark had class. For one thing, the toasters were steel-sided and LOOKED steel-sided, with ambient reflections including toast and other toasters. Blue, they were not. They did not plummet in random directions from the top left corner, but flew IN FORMATION, like geese, with stragglers joining a group and adventuresome toasters zipping off on their own to find their own space and form their own groups. If I recall correctly, there were a number of Options, but I never used them because the toasters were our friends just as they were. After Dark also included a slew of other modules, including synchronized swans and a cityscape with creepy eyes on the bottom edge of the screen and a surreal eldritch moon that you could wrap a bitmap around (including an eyeball). The good old days. This is about halfway there, using the old hacker’s formula that 90% of the work comes in the last 2% of the inspiration. Oh, yeah. After Dark sucked. It froze up your IBM PC like clockwork, but it was sure pretty.
I just saw the Lion King, Gameboy Color and the Flying Toasters all in one day…my life is complete!
*sigh* i temporarily had a mac *OLD mac*in my room when i was 10/13 or so, because my school had one that it didn’t need, and my mom worked with the computer lab teacher, so i got it, and it had this. This was so fun! the song just brings back so many memories, and when you could also set it to play the Flight of the Valkyries. 83 so many memories.
Also, it had this game that you could play, like a fly around space, shoot things, etc, game, and you could only play it when the screen saver activated. THAT was so much fun, but no matter how far you got, no matter how much time you invested in it, the slightest BUDGE of the mouse would kill it and bring up your desktop. T^T but so much fun.
Thanks for the memories, Nelson. :3
I like all different kinds of screensavers. I like to change mine out every month. The Flying Toaster is cool. Thanks.
BLASTED FROM THE TOASTED
I remember the After Dark ones! Oh how I miss the Bad Dog screensaver!