Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: After Dark 2.0 - any news? Message-ID: <41401@think.Think.COM> Date: 10 Aug 90 14:25:30 GMT References: <26716@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Aug3.102021.2770@coral.bucknell.edu> <23497@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <26740@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Distribution: comp Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 28 In article <26740@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> bruce@sim.UUCP (Bruce Burkhalter) writes: > All I can say is to try After Dark 2.0. I hope you feel it is > worth the $15 upgrade. If you don't, I can respect that opinion > and hope you will continue to enjoy After Dark 1.0. I saw After Dark 2.0 (plus Bruce, Patrick, and some great T-shirts) at MacWorld on Wednesday. It is bizarre that you can buy After Dark 2.0 new for $19 at MacConnection's booth (show special, normally $22) while the upgrade is $15, but I agree with Bruce that 2.0 is worth it. It's worth that much for the flying toasters alone! Seriously, it has amazing new features. You can lay out different modules to use specified areas of the screen, overlapping or not. You can make modules "transparent" so that overlaps look better. You can adjust the darkness of the toast :-). There's sound, but I think it's misplaced in a screen saver. The t-shirts, on the other hand, are seriously overpriced at $12. GatorMail t-shirts were free! I bought one anyway, because I just had to have a shirt that shows the 51st toaster squadron swarming out of the sky "on a mission to save your screen." Fortunately, I work in a place where t-shirts are a major art form. -- Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142 One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.