A complete solution to using AfterDark screensavers

Jan 03, '05 09:56:00AM

Contributed by: emendelson

Some time ago, a hint of mine was published about using some old After Dark screen savers as screen savers under OS X. The hint wasn't completely reliable, but now I've found a way to make it work perfectly. Start out by creating an AppleScript that launches the MacDim AD Launcher, as described in the original hint. Next, dowload and install Platypus, and use it to create a Cocoa application wrapper around the AppleScript.

Next, download and intall AppStartSaver, a screen saver that launches OS X applications, but in its current version doesn't natively launch AppleScripts or Classic apps. Select the Cocoa wrapper that you created with Platypus, and use it as the application that the saver launches.

The result is an OS X screen saver that smoothly launches After Dark savers. Presumably this method will work with other OS 8/9 screen savers.

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