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After Dark for OS 9
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Download After_Dark_for_OS_9.SIT
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For Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 9
Emulation
Guides on emulating older applications
Guides on emulating older applications
Finally, a patch that makes After Dark work on OS 9.04 and above! Huge thanks goes out to Daxeria for making this possible. Starry Night and Blank Screen are included.
This is the updated version, with all of the file folders(empty) that will be needed when you add modules to the package. If there is ANYTHING that has to do with After Dark, you HAVE TO HAVE THIS BUNDLE!
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Thanks Daxeria for getting back to me. I still have my MAC SE single disk drive...and it works like new!
(I had a Performa back then.) Gave that one to my Dad. He loved it. Have a good night. Patti
I also have a G3 desktop that I think might have plain system 9 still on it. Anyway, sounds like you've made a lot of people happy. Messages 4.0 with the foggy screen and the finger writing a message is still the coolest screen saver. I remember turning up the sound and freaking people out when they walked by the computer
laydeebugg, I'm afraid AD will only work if you're booted directly into OS 9 or lower, not using OS X with classic mode.
Sorry for not making this clear in the instructions; it never occurred to me that anyone would try it in OS X. I'm surprised the cityscape even loaded!
I was so happy to even hope to get original After Dark to work on my ibook (OS 10.3, with classic OS9.2.2) I'm afraid the instructions were over simple-ized. I placed those darn files and apps in every different control panel on my machine; restarted after each install. Flickers trying to load the screensaver. It even starts for a second or two...then back to the resource warning on black screen. End up with city-scape. Bor-r-r-r-ing. I want the Messages 4.0 with the foggy screen and the human finger writing a message, with the "squeaky" sound and all! My fave of all time... but so many run a very close second.
Bravo to Dax for so much work--just for little ol' Mac lovers like me
I have AD 4.0 & AD 9 then the AD folder has every module ever made...so close and yet so far. Just won't work. I've spent two hours a day, every day for a week. Step-by-step. Just won't work. I know it must be assumed that anyone trying to use AD must be somewhat savvy...I thought I was...Nope. Not that savvy. Should these files be in OS 10 sys/controlpanels file, or OS9.2.2 Classic controlpanels file? That's the million dollar question for me that none of the documentation seems to mention: which OS control panel file? Thanks if you bothered reading my rant. Just disappointed is all. Have a good one everybody.
This patched version is great. Running on OS 9.2 on iBook clamshell. Downloaded the Trek modules and others. Feels like old times.
YAY.... I only just now found this, after searching for answers as to how to make AD work on my OS 9, all because nobody wanted to buy my copy on eBay!
I'm a happy camper once again.
cheers
What about using one of the earlier After Dark versions ?
It's not really After Dark for OS 9, it's the modules that must be prepared for OS9 - all to do with compressed resources.
I tried using this in SheepShaver and it crashes on startup everytime. I'm using 9.0.4 as my operating system.
This is a good addition. I discovered this and "fixed" packs on another site. It works perfectly except for modules requiring a separate FPU (Satori, Rose etc.?). I have not experimented with SoftwareFPU to get these working, but Simpsons seemed to work beautifully. Actually, worth it just to use the Simpsons screensavers...
Have you tried opening the resources in ResEdit ? From memory, at the time, I remember ResEdit not supporting compressed resource forks, if you opened them, it would uncompress them. I think ResEdit even gives you a warning message about it when you open them.
Again, from memory, compressed resource forks was nothing special, I did read about it at the time and there may still be info out there for one to get a better idea as to the reasoning behind using them.
Just a little caveat, yet again from memory, something in the back of my mind tells me that it was OS9.2 and later that required the resource forks to be compressed, while OS9.1 and earlier lived with the normal resource forks. A google search will clear up any confusion.
Works alright with some modules, but with a LOT of the modules, it just crashes or freezes (one time got The Bomb and had to reboot)...
(i'm on 9.2.2 on iMac G3 600mhz w/512mb of RAM)
I am going to try using ResEdit to increase memory allocation....
Edit: Ah. I see. I hadn't read the "AD9 Read Me" (read everything else but skipped over that one for some reason). Turns out the reason tons of modules crash is because they have compressed resources which are not supported in OS 9.1 or later. After Dark 9 works by having those compressed resources decompressed into normal resources.
I guess my question now is: how could one decompress the dcmp resources into normal resources (or would that even be possible without tons of hand-editing assembly)?? I would glady try "repairing" a few AD modules to work with OS 9.1 or later.
OK another update. Wasn't even when choosing Starry Night. I reboot and place cursor in activation corner and it does nothing. Pressing activation key-command makes it so i can't click on any menus or do any key commands, unlress i press cmd-opt-esc and click Cancel. THEN I see an earlier comment to make the control panel un-Locked... that seems to make it work again. Unfortunately it seems that the control panel gets re-locked every time I restart ( I think?).. ah well...
it works, just select the icon of after dark inside of control panel and check if it's locked.
If so then Unlock it and works (For me)
Unexpectedly quits on original OS 9 and 9.2.2, no matter where the after dark control panel application is placed....