Modules
| Module Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Starry Night | The original After Dark screen saver, featuring a pixelated city skyline under a night sky |
| Aquatic Realm | Underwater world of fish with a black background |
| Artist | A digital artist applies artistic touches to images in a slow manner so one can see the artist work |
| Bad Dog | Popular module featuring a white dog with a black ring around one of his eyes, causing trouble on the desktop |
| Bogglins | Green slime creatures are formed and make obnoxious noises |
| Boris | The opposite of Bad Dog, a good cat plays on the desktop and chases butterflies |
| Bugs | Digital bugs crawl across the screen |
| Bulge | Expands portions of the screen, making the screen appear to have a "bulge" |
| Bungee Roulette | Various characters bungee-jump from the top of the screen, but occasionally the bungee cord breaks |
| Can of Worms | "Worms" emerge from the screen and crawl around |
| Chameleon | Chameleons walk across the screen, changing colors and eating icons |
| Clocks | Different objects appear as a clock and move around |
| Coming Soon! | A salesperson pitches fictitious "products" |
| Confetti Factory | Confetti falls from the top of the screen and onto conveyor belts below |
| Daredevil Dan | A daredevil motorcyclist attempts dangerous jumps over school buses, flames, and piranha tanks |
| Dominoes | A game of dominoes is played on the screen |
| DOS Shell | A mock DOS shell is run on the screen, reliving earlier days of computing |
| Dots | A game of "dots" is played on the screen |
| Down the Drain | The desktop appears to spiral down a drain |
| Einstein | Complex mathematical and scientific equations are performed on the screen |
| Fade Away | The desktop fades away in different ways |
| Fish Pro | Fish module similar to Aquatic Realm |
| Flocks | Displays flocks of various creatures on the screen |
| Flying Toasters | Classic module featuring flying toasters |
| Flying Toasters Pro | Updated version that allows one to select more than flying toasters and also has music |
| Flying Toilets | Like Flying Toasters, but with toilets |
| Fractal Forest | A forest of trees is generated on the screen |
| FrankenScreen | A digital Frankenstein creates creatures out of various parts |
| Frost and Fire | Produces patterns similar to splattering paint on paper |
| GeoBounce | A geometrical figure bounces around the screen |
| Globe | Takes an image and wraps it around a sphere, then spins like a globe |
| Graph Stat | Draws scientific and mathematical graphs on the screen |
| Gravity | Circles bounce around the screen |
| Guts | Gravity simulation |
| Hall of Mirrors | Reflects parts of the screen in an infinite mirror style |
| Hallucinations | The computer "hallucinates" |
| Hard Rain | Rain falls onto the desktop |
| Lasers | Lasers create patterns on the screen |
| Logo | User-supplied image moves randomly on screen |
| Lunatic Fringe | Playable module that allows to run! |
| Magic | Creates soothing patterns |
| Mandelbrot | Generates a mathematically created Mandelbrot set |
| Marbles | Marbles bounce around the screen |
| Meadow | A computer-generated meadow |
| Message Mayhem | A figure on the screen scrawls out a message |
| Messages | Displays a crawling marquee message on the screen with selectable font and text colors |
| Mike's So-called Life | Features a man named Mike, living in his apartment and doing nothing exciting |
| Mime Hunt | A playable module that features a mime and cross-hairs |
| Modern Art | Modern Art displayed on the screen |
| Mondrian | Inverts parts of the screen |
| Mosaic | Creates a mosaic of the screen |
| Mountains | Generates 3-D mountains |
| Mowin' Boris | Mowin' Man mows a field with Boris the cat around. When Mowin' Man runs over Boris, blood and guts appear |
| Mowin' Man | A man mows a constantly growing field |
| Nirvana | Generates colorful textures |
| Nocturnes | Shows the eyes of various nocturnal creatures, such as bats |
| Nonsense | Nonsensical phrases are displayed on the screen |
| Om Appliances | Various appliances do weird things on the screen |
| Origami | Computer-generated origami appears on the screen |
| Pattern | Animated patterns appear on the screen |
| Pearl | An optical effect featuring squares |
| Penrose | Penrose tiling effect |
| Phlegm Boy | An obnoxious slimy creature is disgusting and displays bad habits |
| Photon | Computer-generated particles of light are emitted from the darkness |
| Plasma | Plasma-like image generated |
| Punch Out | Round holes appear to be punched out of the desktop |
| Puzzle | The desktop becomes a sliding puzzle |
| Rain | Colorful rain drops fall on the desktop |
| Rainstorm | Like the Rain module, but with wind and lightning |
| Rat Race | A race featuring three rats with names, mindlessly wandering around the track until there is a winner |
| Rebound | Balls rebound around the screen |
| Rose | Mathematical pattern based on trigonometry |
| Satori | Color animated light show |
| Say What? | Displays humorous phrases |
| Shapes | Fills the screen with colorful, geometric shapes |
| Shock Clocks | Scary creatures are turned into clocks |
| Shooting Spree | The desktop appears to be shot up by a gun |
| Sinkhole | The desktop appears to fall into sinkholes |
| Slide Show | A basic slide show of user-supplied images |
| Snake | A pixelated snake tries to find its way through a maze |
| Spheres | A number of spheres fill the screen |
| Spin Brush | Smears points on the screen like wet paper |
| Spiral Gyro | Vector module that twists lines |
| Spotlight | The desktop becomes black and parts are "illuminated" by a randomly moving light spot |
| Squigwig | Generates mathematical circles |
| Stained Glass | Produces quilt-like patterns |
| Stormy Night | Random lightning bolts, with thunderclap sounds |
| Strange Attractor | Computer-generated color image |
| String Theory | Moire patterns |
| Sunburst | Color pattern that appears to come from the Sun |
| Swan Lake | Swans swim around the desktop |
| This Ol' House | Someone appears to be working on the desktop from the outside with power tools |
| Toxic Swamp | Like Aquatic Realm, but in a toxic polluted swamp with mutated fish and a mob boss |
| Tunnel | Makes the screen appear to be a tunnel |
| Vertigo | Colorful spirals drawn on the screen |
| Voyeur | One appears to be spying on an apartment complex with a big city skyline in the background |
| Warp | One appears to be traveling among stars at high speed |
| Wrap Around | Draws three-dimensional loops |
| Wrecking Ball | A wrecking ball appears to demolish the desktop |
| You Bet Your Head | Playable quiz game featuring three colored "heads" that are smashed by a hammer if one supplies the wrong answer to a question |
| Zoom! | Creates colorful triangular tubes |
| Zot | Attempts to generate lightning |
An edition called After Dark Totally Twisted includes the more macabre modules, namely Bungee Roulette, Chameleon, Coming Soon!, Flying Toilets, FrankenScreen, Message Mayhem, Mike's So-called Life, Mime Hunt, Mowin' Boris, Phlegm Boy, Shock Clocks, Toxic Swamp, and Voyeur.
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