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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: After Dark 2.0 - WOW!
Message-ID: <1147@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 17:49:13 GMT
Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +1 (415) 966-1151
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I just received the 2.0 revision of After Dark, the screen saver from
Berkeley Systems, and all I can say is "Wow!"  The new modules, especially
Fish and Flying Toasters, are just quite exceptional.  The quality of the
animation (on my IIci with a 4-bit portrait display) is better than most
of the games I have, and it all just seems to work that much better than
the original After Dark too.  (btw, for those Fish fanatics that may have
seen versions of the program that, for example, were on the Microsoft
Office CDROM, the version with After Dark seems a lot smoother and more
enjoyable)

Sound, however, is definitely kind of weird and I've pretty much turned
it off on all the modules I have in use -- it's just too jarring to have
strange beeps and whirs emitted while my screen is supposed to be being
'saved' (is there a speaker saver INIT? :-)

Finally, the packaging is much more up to snuff with other professional
packages, and it's a lot easier to keep track of the documentation,
disk, and so on.  

Damn good job, Berkeley Systems!  Check it out!!

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor