Enterprising web searchers, you know the drill. The version you want is After Dark Deluxe. Although Sierra has ended support for After Dark, you can still pick up a copy from ebay. Sierra owns the rights to the program, and to the source code. Unfortunately, Ben doesn't have the source code (or if he does, he's not telling, and I don't blame him). Lunatic Fringe was developed by Ben Haller of Stick Software.

This leaves us poor devotees with two potential solutions: replacement or emulation. For the enterprising web searcher this wouldn't be a problem, but the After Dark engine doesn't run either under OS X or under the Classic environment. Tragically, Sierra (who bought After Dark from Berkeley Systems) terminated After Dark many years ago. Peversely, this was released as an After Dark screensaver module. In some ways I would agree - addictive, simple, fast, satisfying. Lunatic Fringe has been described as the best game ever written for the Macintosh.

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