Editing After Dark (software) (section)

{{Short description|Computer screensaver software}}
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = After Dark
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| screenshot             = After Dark Flying Toasters.png<!-- Image name is enough -->
| caption                = ''Flying Toasters'' screensaver in ''After Dark 2.0''
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| author                 = Jack Eastman<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2012/03/16/90s-tech-icons-where-are-they-now |title='90s Tech Icons: Where Are They Now? |last=Lammle |first=Bob |publisher=[[Mashable]] |date=March 16, 2012 |access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref><br>Patrick Beard
| developer              = [[Berkeley Systems]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1989}}
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| latest release version = 4.0
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|1996}}
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| programming language   = [[assembly language]], [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system       = [[Apple Macintosh]], [[Microsoft Windows]], DOS<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C&pg=PA59 |title=DOS user Need No Longer Covet After Dark for Windows |magazine=[[PC Magazine]] |date=7 Dec 1993 |page=59 |volume=12 |issue=21}}</ref>
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| genre                  = [[screensaver]]
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'''''After Dark''''' is a series of [[computer]] [[screensaver]] [[software]] introduced by [[Berkeley Systems]] in 1989 for the [[Apple Macintosh]], and in 1991 for [[Microsoft Windows]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/flying-toasters-a-look-back-at-after-dark-for-windows-10/1/|title=Flying Toasters - A look back at After Dark for Windows 1.0|author=Greg Shultz|date=April 14, 2011|work=TechRepublic}}</ref><ref name=stupid>{{cite web|url=https://lowendmac.com/2007/aggressively-stupid-the-story-behind-after-dark/ |title=Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark |publisher=Lowendmac.com |access-date=2010-03-18| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100211150233/http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0209.html| archive-date= 11 February 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Following the original, additional editions included ''More After Dark'', ''Before Dark'', and editions themed around licensed properties such as ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[The Simpsons]]'', ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], and [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] characters.<ref name=stupid/>

On top of the included animated screensavers, the program allowed for the development and use of third-party modules, many hundreds of which were created at the height of its popularity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0212.html |title=On Mighty Toaster Wings: More After Dark History |publisher=Lowendmac.com |access-date=2010-03-18| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100211150058/http://lowendmac.com/thomas/07/0212.html| archive-date= 11 February 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>