After Dark & Mac OS?
Bret Nason
aren't necessary, but they are kind of fun).
I recently got After Dark Deluxe, but it won't activate on either my Mac
running OS9 or my wife's Mac running 8.6. On both computers, I can open
the control panel and look at modules in Demo mode, but I can't get the
screen saver to activate with a hot corner, a key combo, or a time
delay. Either I'm doing something wrong or After Dark just doesn't work
with the newer Mac OS's. Does anyone know for sure?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bret
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Larry Stone
(Bret Nason) wrote:
After Dark has worked fine for me on 8.6. It is not officially supported
on 9.x but has worked fine for me there too.
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John Rethorst
> Is After Dark 4.0 compatible with OS 8.6 or 9.0? (I know screen savers
> aren't necessary, but they are kind of fun).
>
> I recently got After Dark Deluxe, but it won't activate on either my Mac
> running OS9 or my wife's Mac running 8.6. On both computers, I can open
> the control panel and look at modules in Demo mode, but I can't get the
> screen saver to activate with a hot corner, a key combo, or a time
> delay. Either I'm doing something wrong or After Dark just doesn't work
> with the newer Mac OS's. Does anyone know for sure?
>
See if "Underware" v. 2.0.1 is still on Mac archives. This was a
screensaver that would also put modules on the desktop. Great idea, but
most of their modules were cartoons. It runs AD modules, and will work in
just screensaver mode. IIRC version 2 was written in exact conformity with
Apple's PPC guidelines, since v. 1 was criticized for not conforming, so
v. 2 may still work with recent OS versions. The commercial product died,
and it was posted on Info-Mac and maybe other sites.
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Phyllis Evans
> Is After Dark 4.0 compatible with OS 8.6 or 9.0? (I know screen savers
> aren't necessary, but they are kind of fun).
You need to go to the berksys.com website and download the 4.04 engine.
It will then run under 8.6 without a problem. I've heard mixed reports
on OS 9 and haven't tried it due to my love/hate relationship with 9.
Bret Nason
thew Berkeley site, I finally found the updater. Right on the Read Me it
states that it allows After Dark to run on OS 8.x. Guess I could have
figured that out myself, but thanks for pointing it out to me.
I'm also going to look into Underware 2.0.1 for my Mac running OS 9.
(The After Dark site also said that it was not supportable under OS9,
but some people say they've run it with no problems.)
Thanks again!
Phyllis Evans
(Bret Nason) wrote:
> (The After Dark site also said that it was not supportable under OS9,
> but some people say they've run it with no problems.)
Decided to test it out on my OS 9 partition. It seems to run without a
problem. The only glitch I've found is when changing settings on the
control panel. When you close the CP, a notice pops up saying that it
quit with a type 3 error and you should reboot. I've ignored the
message, changed it several times with the same error message each time,
and everything seems to be running fine.