Berkeley Systems Ships Two New Windows 95 Compatible Screen Savers; Flying Toilets Instead of Flying Toasters? It's The World's No. 1 Selling Screen Saver Gone Psycho!BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1995--Berkeley Systems announced today the shipping of After Dark for Windows 95 and the Totally Twisted After Dark Screen Savers Screen Savers may refer to:
After Dark for Windows 95 contains 45 fully animated screen saving displays, with dozens of custom options. Totally Twisted After Dark Screen Saver A utility that was originally created to prevent a CRT from being etched by an unchanging image. After a specified duration of time without keyboard or mouse input, it blanks the screen or displays moving objects. Pressing a key or moving the mouse restores the screen. , featuring 13 outrageously warped and fully animated displays, is hilarious entertainment for those who walk on the weirder side of the street. With an interactive Mime Hunt, bungee jumping bungee jumping Sport in which the jumper falls from a high place with a rubber (“bungee”) cord attached both to his or her feet and to the jump site, and, after a period of headfirst free fall, is bounced partway back when the cord rebounds from its maximum cows, and a pack of crass chameleons, it's a screen saver that is truly over-the-edge! After Dark for Windows 95, on diskette The official name for the floppy disk. See floppy disk. diskette - floppy disk and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , is available for a special "half-off" street price of $15, until November 15, 1995. Available for Windows 95, Windows 3.1 and Macintosh, on diskette and CD-ROM, Totally Twisted After Dark has an expected street price of $30. "For years, our users have been begging us to do an `uncensored' After Dark," stated Greg Marek, Director of Marketing. "We've taken our new After Dark for Windows 95 and put an outrageous twist on it; the Totally Twisted After Dark Screen Saver appeals to the twisted side in all of us." After Dark and Totally Twisted After Dark for Windows 95 offers users added functionality by giving them the option to have After Dark and Totally Twisted reside on the Windows 95 Taskbar An on-screen toolbar that displays the active applications (tasks). Clicking on a taskbar button restores the application to its previous appearance. Windows 95 popularized this feature. See Win Taskbar. . The QuickAccess button gives users the option of displaying a small icon in the `notification' area of the Taskbar, allowing for easy access to the After Dark Control Panel. Additionally, each display has its own custom icon, or thumbnail image, in the After Dark Folder, for easy identification. When users right-click on one of these new icons and choose `Open' from the pop-up menu, the After Dark Control Panel opens immediately, selecting the corresponding display. After Dark has been entertaining millions and saving screens since its debut in 1989. Now, Berkeley has taken this best-selling screen saver and gone psycho! Instead of Flying Toasters, Totally Twisted After Dark presents Flying Toilets, complete with customizable toilet paper colors and even occupants. Hit the caps lock key A keyboard key that toggles upper case on and off. When on, pressing any key automatically delivers the shifted version of the key, except for numeric digits, periods, commas, slashes and backslashes. and hear the computer flush your troubles down the drain. Parodying the relaxing beauty of the Fish display from earlier versions of After Dark, users can take a dip with the underwater denizens of a toxic waste toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It usually is the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use, agriculture, the military, medical facilities, radioactive sources, and dump and view a variety of twisted creatures. Two previous After Dark favorites, Mowin' Man and Boris the cat, have returned to star in Berkeley Systems' very own field of screams "Field of Screams" is the 19th episode of season eight of the television sitcom Married... with Children. Plot Al protests the proposed destruction of his high-school football field to build a new auto plant. , Mowin' Boris. Accidents do happen! Founded in 1987, Berkeley Systems, Inc. is most recognized for its widely popular, award-winning After Dark and other animated screen savers, such as The Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, Disney, and Star Trek: The Next Generation Screen Savers. The company has since diversified its catalog of entertainment titles with Expresso Calendar and Address Book, Launch Pad Kid-Safe Desktop, and Triazzle Living Puzzles. Berkeley also recently debuted a new pop-culture trivia game, YOU DON'T KNOW JACK You Don't Know Jack is a series of computer games developed by Jellyvision and Berkeley Systems. YDKJ, promoted as the games "where high culture and pop culture collide," combine trivia with comedy. , due out this October. Berkeley's online presence expanded this summer with the creation of Toasted, Berkeley's Home Page on the World Wide Web; http://www.berksys.com. In addition, Berkeley Systems produces award-winning software that allows the blind or visually impaired to use both Windows and Macintosh computers. -0- Note to Editors: Review copies and color slides of After Dark for Windows 95 and Totally Twisted After Dark Screen Savers are available upon request. Additionally, b-roll of Totally Twisted After Dark is also available. For more information, contact Steven Decker at 510/540-5535 or steve@berksys.com. Information on Berkeley's entire product portfolio is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.berksys.com. CONTACT: Berkeley Systems Steven Decker, 510/540-5535 x221 (work) or 415/861-1966 (home) |
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