Play Lunatic Fringe — the classic After Dark space shooter — natively
on a modern Mac.
Created by Ben Haller and released in the early '90s
as part of the Macintosh More After Dark software package, Lunatic Fringe
was unique among screensavers in that it was not just a passive animation to watch, but an
interactive game! Toggling the caps lock key while the screensaver was running popped you into a
space shooter where you could fly around, collect power-ups, and blast a variety of baddies all in
pursuit of a high score. It was a blast.
Running Lunatic Fringe on a modern computer has been a challenge.
Fringe Player by Greg Parker filled
this need during Apple's PPC and Intel era, but is not supported on modern Apple platforms. Lunacy
brings Lunatic Fringe to the present: a native Swift app with a built-in emulation engine
that runs the original module, unchanged, on modern Apple platforms.
v1.1.1 · universal binary · requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
You'll need the Lunatic Fringe module. Lunacy is the player, not the
game — bring your own copy of the original module (it shipped in More After
Dark and After Dark Deluxe), then drag it onto Lunacy on first launch.
Features
- Full screen mode.
- Customizable keybindings.
- Optional CRT shader.
- Over-engineered (but optional) global high score tracking, for no good reason!
Global High Scores
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