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

Aquatic Realm

In Aquatic Realm, your screen becomes an underwater porthole as fish and other sea creatures swim back and forth across the seabed.

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Can of Worms

In Can of Worms, worms squirm and twist all over the screen while munching away at the desktop.

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Clocks

In Clocks, different types of clocks float across the screen displaying the time. This composite image shows all three of the main clocks.

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In Down the Drain, your desktop appears to liquefy and then spirals down a drain.

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Fade Away

In Fade Away, your desktop just fades away.

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Flying Toasters

In Flying Toasters, the screen goes black and then the now infamous flying toasters glide across the screen interspersed with pieces of toast. You even get to choose how you like your toast.

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GeoBounce

In GeoBounce, a geometric shape of your choice spins and bounces across the screen.

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Globe

In Globe, a planet spins and floats across the screen.

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GraphStat

In GraphStat, random scientific looking graphs appear on the screen. 

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Gravity

In Gravity, different colored balls bounce all over the screen.

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Hard Rain

In Hard Rain, rain drops hit the screen and create colorful circular splats all over the screen.

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Lasers

In Lasers, you get a front row seat as a laser light show creates bright patterns on the screen.

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Logo

In Logo, images float across the screen. By default, the After Dark logo is used, but you can use any image you want.

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Magic

In Magic, constantly shifting patterns appear on the screen and dazzle you with their intricacy.

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Messages

In Messages, a text message floats across the screen. You can choose from several whacky messages provided or type your own.

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Mondrian

In Mondrian, the screen turns into a piece of Mondrian style art.

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Mountains

In Mountains, 3-D mountains from a planet of your choosing appear on the screen.

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Nocturnes

In Nocturnes, the screen goes black and then the eyes of various nocturnal creatures appear on the screen and watch you.

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Punch Out

In Punch Out, the desktop is attacked by a hole puncher—the annoying clicking sound is optional.

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Puzzle

In Puzzle, the desktop becomes a sliding puzzle and the pieces begin shuffling all over the screen.

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Rain Storm

In Rain Storm, a storm appears on the screen complete with wind and lightning.

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Rose

In Rose, interesting patterns appear on the screen and slowly grow larger while rotating ever so slightly.

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Satori

In Satori, colorful tie-dye-like patterns slowly emerge and swirl on the desktop.

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Shapes

In Shapes, solid color geometric shapes simply fill the screen. Kind of boring now, but hey this was from 1991.

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Slide show

In Slide Show, you see a simple slide show of images of your choice. Here, you see some dinosaurs… get it?

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Spheres

In Spheres, a host of colorful spheres are rendered on the screen creating the illusion of dimensionality. Back then, this one was one of my favorites.

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Spiral Gyro

In Spiral Gyro, interesting patterns are drawn on the screen just like those created with the old Spyrograph toy.

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Spotlight

In Spotlight, the screen goes black and a spotlight appears and illuminates parts of the desktop.

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Stained Glass

In Stained Glass, random patterns appear on the screen. They actually look more like quilts or a kaleidoscope than stained glass, but very neat, nonetheless.

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Starry Night

In Starry Night, a city skyline appears under a star filled sky with occasional flashes of lightning. The lights in the buildings go on and off and red beacon lights flash at the tops of some of the tallest buildings.

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String Theory

In String Theory, complex Moire­-like patterns swirl across the screen.

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Vertigo

In Vertigo, colorful spirals and squares gradually grow on the screen and provide the dizzying optical illusion of depth as they move.

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Warp

In Warp, you see a Star Trek effect, where colorful stars suddenly swirl past as the warp drive engages.

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Wrap Around

In Wrap Around, you see another set of Moire patterns swirl across the screen.

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Zot

In Zot, bolts of lightning appear on the screen.

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