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I remember having these kinds of desktop toys in Windows, way back when, probably 95 or 98? Just a little joyful thing you could play with. This rules.
I loved the one that would take a screenshot of your current desktop and you could smash it with a hammer and set it on fire. Little me had some anger issues
This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and also feed them.
Fwiw, here is the old Dashboard widget this is based on, for anyone else on an OS old enough to run it. It was a little annoying to dig out of the internet archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20110301011442/http://gogoredbal...
Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!
I'm suddenly reminded of the Petz series. I'm surprised that's never come back in some form.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tonybalo...
Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop? This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and also feed them. https://www.petpenguins.com/
He mentions the old Dashboard ball widget. There was a glitch you could use to put widgets onto your desktop instead, so naturally every school Mac had 20 bouncy balls on it.
classic. we had the versions of OS X with keyboard shortcuts for global zoom and color invert. took a couple months for the faculty to learn about these shortcuts the hard way..
Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop? This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and also feed them. https://www.petpenguins.com/
Maybe try Bonzi Buddy?
I'm suddenly reminded of the Petz series. I'm surprised that's never come back in some form.