Screensaver modules rebuilt as self-contained CSS/JS pages from an original After Dark 2.0 + More After Dark install.
Sprite pages use pixels extracted straight out of the .AD binaries.
19 creatures, sea floor, swaying seaweed, rising bubbles - click for the original blub. 256-color sprite set.
original spritesThe same tank with the dithered 16-color sprites, as most 1992 machines actually showed it.
original spritesThe icon itself: 4-frame wingbeats and buttered toast in three darkness levels, on the classic diagonal. Click for flap sounds.
original spritesDigitized swans gliding on black water with animated rippling reflections.
original spritesHe mows the flower meadow row by row, clippings flying, and the flowers grow back for him to mow again.
original spritesThe modern and antique faces drifting about - and they tell your actual local time, hands and digital digits alike.
original spritesEyes blink and watch from the darkness. Click to enable the night sounds.
original spritesThe EARTH.BMP that ships with After Dark, wrapped around a spinning sphere and set bouncing, just like the module did it.
original spritesThe kitten sprints across your screen - and sometimes splats into the glass and slides down. From Deluxe Classics.
original spritesShaded spheres bouncing off the walls and each other. Click for the boings. From Deluxe Classics.
original spritesSwirled and smiley marbles roll along the floor, clacking as they collide. Click for sound. From Deluxe Classics.
original spritesClocks 3.0's found-object faces - bagel, kiwi, light bulb, cookie, gerbera - each telling your actual time.
original spritesHyperspace starfield with a meandering vanishing point and pulsing warp speed.
procedural recreationWind-blown streaks and little splash rings on the pavement.
procedural recreationA composition paints itself: black divisions, primary fills, fresh canvas when it's done.
procedural recreationBranching lightning with screen flash and fading afterimage.
procedural recreationDense woods with pines that grow branch by branch through all four seasons - snow in winter, geese overhead. Pin one with #spring, #summer, #fall or #winter; click to change.
procedural recreationDeeply serious statistics: bubble-marked curves plot themselves over polar and cartesian grids.
procedural recreationAn endless wireframe flyover - pink-lit fractal ridges above purple valley floors.
procedural recreationA dark hillside slowly fills with thousands of tiny grass sprigs, then grows anew.
procedural recreation