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Three graduations, and the fact-check earned its keep on every one. Shanling M0 Pura (music): the 250mW balanced figure needs an adapter Shanling sells separately — out of the box it is 100mW, on a single 3.5mm jack. The 'cannot stream' pitch holds (no Wi-Fi, no apps) but the review declines to sell the myth: Bluetooth-receiver mode will happily play your phone's Spotify. Read alongside the existing Zenteek review — the same argument with a battery in it. Lunacy (play): runs the original unmodified After Dark module, not a reimplementation — confirmed. Corrects the find's attribution of More After Dark to Apple (it was Berkeley Systems) and disambiguates Jeff Halter, who made Lunacy, from Ben Haller, who wrote Lunatic Fringe in 1991. Ships no game data; you supply your own copy. Same developer as the Stacks HyperCard player, which is the actual story. Lai Tak Tsuen Estate (places — new category): the find was substantially wrong and both it and this morning's bundle have been corrected in place. Not two 1975 towers but four cylinders across two twin-cylinder blocks, completed 1976. And access is not 'a guard checks resident cards' — there are coded gates and posted notices prohibiting entry and photography, put up because the Ghost in the Shell shoot turned a residential estate into a backdrop. The bundle no longer invites anyone through the gate, and this is emphatically not the pick.
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name: "Lunacy"
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subtitle: "A native player that resurrects Lunatic Fringe on modern Macs"
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date: 2026-07-14
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shortlist: true
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link: "https://morphing.cloud/lunacy/"
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linkText: "morphing.cloud"
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source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List"
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promotedTo: lunacy
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topics: [macos-apps, history-and-archives]
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tags: [game, screensaver, retro, free]
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description: "A native Swift player that runs Lunatic Fringe, the interactive After Dark space-shooter screensaver from the early '90s, unmodified on modern macOS."
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Lunatic Fringe was a hidden game inside Apple's More After Dark package: toggle caps lock while the screensaver ran and it dropped you into a space shooter with power-ups and a high-score chase. Lunacy is a native Swift player with a built-in emulation engine that runs that original module, unchanged — you supply your own copy of the module, drag it onto the app, and it plays at full screen with an optional CRT shader. It requires macOS 13 Ventura or later and ships as a universal binary, currently at v1.1.1.
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