After Dark: More After Dark is another 26 AD modules for After Dark 3.0 or 4.0. Some of the modules also appear in After Dark Deluxe. Here's the listing of all 25 modules included in More After Dark:
The module named Lunatic Fringe is absolutely brilliant. It's a fully playable game similar to Maelstrom but somewhat even cooler (bigger screen area for playing, scrolling instead of wrapping, etc...)
Before I start this review, I must warn you that After Dark is so much fun that I keep forgetting that it's a utility, not a game. So try and bear with me, please.
After Dark is one of the most popular screen savers for the Macintosh. Screen savers are used to prevent an image permanently 'burning' into your screen by dimming the screen or putting a moving display on it. After Dark is a particularly novel screen saver. When a screen saver is functioning the screen is said to be 'asleep'. After Dark and More After Dark together have over 45 different displays, which are known as modules.
Both programs come on 1 disk, and have small accompanying manuals. These are clear and easy to understand, although the program is so easy to use that I hardly needed it. Installation is simple, with After Dark you just copy the files into the system folder, and with MAD an installation program, 'de-compacts' and installs the new modules, as well as updating After Dark to System 7 compatibility.
Using After Dark
After Dark is very simple to use. its main screen is a control panel. Just click on the name of the module you wish to spend hours enjoying (you will spend hours enjoying them!), and then either click on the demo button, or move into the 'sleep now' corner to see the display. Or of course you can wait until the screen falls asleep by itself (you can choose how much time before it does this). Almost every module has customisable features, so if you wish, you can personalise your copy to your liking.
The modules
There are far too many modules for me to describe in detail, but here are a few particularly nice ones:
Boris: Beautifully animated cats prance around your screen chasing butterflies, meowing, lazing around or scratching the edge of your screen. You'll never grow tired of Boris. If you wish to customise Boris then there are various alterations you can make, like the number of cats there ore. Any module which has sound has a volume control at the bottom of the control panel.
Fish: I wish that Mac games had as good graphics as the Fish! module. In this module, many varieties of tropical fish swim across the sea bed. Note: It took me a while to realise that MAD's extra fish must be installed from within the Fish! module.
Flying toasters: These people are totally insane. Good module, though.
Mountains: Creates a random mountain landscape. Loads of nice options to choose from. You can even choose which planet the mountains are on.
Lunatic Fringe: This module is a fairly decent game by the author of Solarian II , where the aim is to kill everything in sight. This game is a lot better than some of the games out commercially on the Mac, but I still think it could be better.
Virex-D: A module that scans your Mac for viruses while it is asleep.
These are a few of the most unusual After Dark and More After Dark modules. There are many other delightful modules to choose from and all have exceedingly good graphics. One thing I have not mentioned is MultiModule. This allows you to combine modules. You can have different modules running in different parts of the screen, or modules running on top of each other. This adds yet another dimension to After Dark. Also there is a module called Randomizer, which allows you to choose a number of modules for it to display in a random order while the screen is sleeping.
Conclusion
After Dark (including MAD) is not just a screen saver. It is a demonstration of the Mac's graphical capabilities (although a Quadra 900 running Photoshop and being used by a modern day Van Gogh might produce something better). The displays are enchanting (and colourful) and because they are screen savers, they are also useful (a good excuse for you to spend some money). However I must make an important point. If you intend to do any work whatsoever, DO NOT buy After Dark. It is more addictive than all the Mac games put together, and twice as good looking. The one thing After Dark is not is a productivity enhancer.
After that conclusion, I feel I must say 5 serious words: .....buy it. You'll love it.
Tointon, David. (February 1992). After Dark and More After Dark. Apple 2000. (pg. 55).
After Dark: More After Dark
Berkeley Systems
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After_Dark_-_More_After_Dark.sit
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
