Editing After Dark (software) (section)

==Flying Toasters==
[[image:After Dark 3 CDROM.jpg|thumb|left|200px|An ''After Dark'' [[CD-ROM]]]]
The most famous of the included screensaver modules is the iconic ''Flying Toasters'', which featured 1940s-style chrome [[toaster]]s sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces of toast. Engineer Jack Eastman claims he came up with the display after seeing a toaster in the kitchen during a late-night programming session and imagining the addition of wings, although the winged toasters bear a strong resemblance to those on the cover of [[Jefferson Airplane]]’s 1973 album ''[[Thirty Seconds Over Winterland]]''.<ref name="think_retro">{{cite magazine |title=Think Retro: Bring back the Flying Toasters |author=Phin, Christopher |magazine=[[Macworld]] |date=2015-02-03 |access-date=2016-03-02 |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/2879119/think-retro-bring-back-the-flying-toasters.html }}</ref> A slider in the ''Flying Toasters'' module enabled users to adjust the toast's darkness, and an updated ''Flying Toasters Pro'' module added a choice of music—[[Richard Wagner]]'s [[Ride of the Valkyries]] or a flying toaster anthem with optional karaoke lyrics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1363|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107035003/http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1363|archive-date=2010-01-07 |title=AfterDark Deluxe&nbsp;— Review |publisher=Mymac.com |access-date=2010-03-18}}</ref>  Yet another version called ''Flying Toasters!'' added bagels and pastries, baby toasters, and more elaborate toaster animation. The Flying Toasters were one of the key reasons that After Dark became popular, and Berkeley began to produce other merchandising products such as T-shirts with the Flying Toaster image and slogans such as "The 51st Flying Toaster Squadron: On a mission to save your screen!"

The toasters were the subject of two lawsuits, the [[Delrina#Berkeley Systems Inc. v. Delrina|first]] in 1993, ''Berkeley Systems vs [[Delrina]] Corporation'', over a module of Delrina's ''Opus 'N Bill'' screensaver in which [[Opus the penguin]] shoots down the toasters.<ref name="parody_toast">{{cite news |author= |author-link= |date=1993-10-11 |title=Software Parody Is Toast After Court Ruling |newspaper=Bloomberg Business News |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-11-fi-44741-story.html |url-access= |access-date=2016-03-03 |via=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> After a U.S. District judge ruled that Delrina's "Death Toasters" was infringing, Delrina later changed the wings of the toasters to propellers.<ref name="parody_toast" /> The second case was brought in 1994 by 1960s [[rock group]] [[Jefferson Airplane]] who claimed that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the cover of their 1973 album ''[[Thirty Seconds Over Winterland]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Another Poppin' Fresh Lawsuit |date=1994-10-01 |author=Rose, Lance |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/1994/10/another-poppin-fresh-lawsuit/ |access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref> The case was dismissed because the cover art had not been registered as a trademark by the group prior to Berkeley Systems' release of the screensaver.<ref name="think_retro"/>

A 3D version of the toasters featuring swarms of toasters with [[airplane]] wings, rather than [[bird]] wings, is available for [[XScreenSaver]].