Afterglow
Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Details
- External ID
- 1246217
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Afterglow
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 96
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9843115244815053
- Tags
- Mac, Funny
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Afterglow runs classic After Dark screen saver modules — Flying Toasters, Fish!, Starry Skyline, and more — natively on macOS, with no ROMs required.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- retro screensaver runner for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping web animations into a macOS app shell is simple, natively executing legacy After Dark C/68k/PowerPC binary modules or re-implementing classic screen savers with authentic timing and canvas reproduction on modern macOS requires low-level retrocomputing/emulation expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires reverse-engineering vintage Macintosh After Dark code modules or running a headless 68k/Mac OS system emulation layer (e.g., customized Mini vMac or WebMac) tailored to modern macOS APIs like Metal or ScreenSaverKit. The core difficulty is parsing legacy resource forks, PICT resources, and executing legacy module hooks without original source or full system ROMs. This demands specialized retro-emulation and binary analysis skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 156 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 157 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacGlow · hn · 2025-11-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- afterlight · github · 2026-09-14 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- NostalgiApp · hn · 2026-05-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ANSI-Saver · hn · 2026-03-07 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Flovio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- silent-horizon · github · 2026-09-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- coolapk-for-mac · github · 2026-09-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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- No other launches for this product.
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