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After Dark now works in the browser thanks to Archive.org. Here are some examples:

Disney After Dark: https://archive.org/details/after-dark-disney

After Dark 3.2 for Windows: https://archive.org/details/AFTERDARK32_WIN

After Dark Looney Toons: https://archive.org/details/LOONEY_WIN

After Dark for Macintosh 2.0: https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac

After Dark Simpsons: https://archive.org/details/SIMPSONS_WIN

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Thanks to a user called Noah2 and thanks to archive.org. (You can see the name of the uploader in the bottom right corner.)

Unfortunately you can be relatively sure that this kind of stuff is released without permission from the copyright holders. (Just food for thought; this is not an endorsement of copyright laws.)

https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index... – Given that Infinisys still sells After Dark (M1 ready, too!), I doubt they have approved those Archive versions.

This stuff makes me nervous about the Internet Archive. For instance, the hundreds of playable video games, all of which are also downloadable: https://archive.org/details/miscconsoles

I don't know how someone like Nintendo hasn't sued their pants off.

The Internet Archive is a "library", which, in the US, enjoy extra privileges under copyright law.

The amount of basic confusion about civics and, well, anything constitutional — something has to be done before it all withers away like waterlogged saplings in a swamp of agitation and indifference.

Yep, more details here: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

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