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Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by hughesjj »

hot_gril wrote: post #28
Liquix wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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..

Invert colors, hold shift to slow down expose animations, spam F11 was what kids did when bored in computer lab

We'd print out the same string sans newlines and watch the console word wraparound make some shapes. All started from a bug someone wrote that we thought was funny.

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Post by reaperducer »

bazzargh wrote: post #26
proee wrote: post #22

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/

Neko has been around for decades now (but was cuter I think back when the desktop resolution matched the cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

Not quite the same thing, but it's at least a cat. And it's in the menu bar.

https://kyome.io/runcat/index.html?lang=en

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Post by dheera »

amethyst wrote: post #24

I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil... 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!

It looks like this repo is is a rewrite of an earlier "scmpoo.exe" that roamed the internet in the mid-1990s. That was fun to set up on school computers to automatically launch at random times.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by nxobject »

proee wrote: post #22

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/

I’m genuinely interested to see whether we can throw a little ML at simulating dumb virtual desktop pets… we ought to have made some progress in the last two decades.
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