Long After Dark 1.4.4

What's new in 1.4.4

Screen Antics: Johnny Castaway. Sierra On-Line's 1992 "storytelling screen saver", made by Dynamix, is the sixteenth release Long After Dark runs, for 328 modules in all. Johnny, a castaway on a tiny desert island with one palm tree, fishes, watches planes fly past through his telescope and much more, day after day, with his sound effects, and the program remembers how far his story has gone. It is neither an After Dark nor an Intermission module but a Windows 3.1 screen saver program, which Long After Dark now runs unchanged, the way Windows 3.1 ran it. Its scene gets a 640×480 screen of its own, scaled to fit (or stretched, with Stretch to fit the screen), and Setup... opens its own options: its sounds, its background and the start of its day. Its Password option has no effect: input ends it, as it ends every module.

Importing it. The importer copies it from its install floppy, an image of the floppy (.img or .ima), a ZIP of that image or a folder of the floppy's files, or downloads it from the Internet Archive (a 1.3 MB ZIP of the floppy image). It now also reads 7z archives wherever it reads ZIPs. Every import is checked file by file against the original disk.

Sixteen covers. The importer's window opens a little wider, with six covers to a row, so every release still shows at once.

For Windows: LongAfterDark-1.4.4-x64.zip holds the three programs. Unzip it anywhere and keep them together; README.txt inside says what to do next. The programs are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn before running them.

SHA-256 of LongAfterDark-1.4.4-x64.zip: 777fb0f74b282d5992bf630f9db2443321521ea63efa795dd9d1c4b77a986fb8

For Linux: LongAfterDark-1.4.4-linux-x64.zip holds the same programs and longafterdark, the Linux player, which runs them under Wine. It needs 64-bit x86 Linux with glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or later) and 64-bit Wine; README.txt inside says what to do next.

SHA-256 of LongAfterDark-1.4.4-linux-x64.zip: e4b7e3be4f6ed121e02ab6e76b8a933cf05a1bb5328b923def7b84d1e5c658fe

Full Changelog: v1.4.3...v1.4.4