AfterDarkofSmirnov.Cpt.Binhex

File	AfterDarkofSmirnov.cpt.binhex
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Category	After Dark

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AfterDarkofSmirnov.Cpt.Binhex is a third-party module for Berkeley Systems' After Dark screensaver for the classic Mac OS, themed as a parody on Smirnov vodka iconography. It ships as a Compact Pro archive (.cpt) wrapped in BinHex 4.0 (.hqx) for posting to Info-Mac, part of the early-1990s explosion of fan-built After Dark modules.What an After Dark Module IsAfter Dark, released by Berkeley Systems in 1989, made its name with the Flying Toasters and an open architecture that let third-party developers ship drop-in animation modules. Hundreds of community-authored modules circulated on bulletin boards and Info-Mac, ranging from polished commercial homages to one-off jokes and parodies like this one.The Smirnov Parody ThemeThe module riffs on the Smirnoff/Smirnov vodka brand, a common 1990s pop-culture reference, in the same spirit as the era's many parody screensavers (Death Toasters, Star Trek and Simpsons mods, and other unauthorized brand plays). As a fan module it was never an official Berkeley Systems or Smirnov product.Distribution FormatThe .Cpt.Binhex chain is classic Mac archive plumbing: Compact Pro (Bill Goodman) preserved the Mac resource fork and bundled multiple files; BinHex 4.0 then encoded the archive into ASCII so it could survive email and FTP transfer. To install, users had to BinHex-decode and then expand the .cpt before dropping the module into the After Dark Files folder in their System Folder.Installation NotesThe module requires a working installation of After Dark 2.0 or later on a 68k or PowerPC Macintosh. Color or grayscale display is typical for visual modules of this era; performance varied with CPU speed and the number of simultaneous animations.