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Flying Toasters – A look back at After Dark for Windows 1.0

By greg shultz April 14, 2011, 10:35 PM PDT

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Flying Toasters – A look back at After Dark for Windows 1.0

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Can of Worms

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Clocks

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Fade Away

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Flying Toasters

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GeoBounce

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GraphStat

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Hard Rain

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Lasers

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Magic

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Mondrian

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Mountains

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Nocturnes

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Punch Out

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Rain Storm

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Satori

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Shapes

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Slide show

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Spheres

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Spiral Gyro

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Stained Glass

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Starry Night

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String Theory

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Vertigo

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Warp

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