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Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by dwighttk » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:33 PM UTC

DO NOT TAUNT BALL

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by aresant » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:39 PM UTC

This is awesomely reminiscent of the old school 68k macintosh era - dogcow, oscar the grouch in the trash can, etc

I miss that simplicity / playfulness / aesthic of that era (yes I am old, please get off my lawn)

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by circa » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:40 PM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #40

ryanmcbride wrote: post #39

I don't have any hard proof but you can ask my wife, a few years ago I totally called that bonzibuddy was gonna come back in style. We're almost there

Bonzibuddy, but with AI.

BonzAI Buddy

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by rkowalick » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:40 PM UTC

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)

This actually works quite well: https://github.com/mdonoughe/neko-mac/issues/5#issuecomment-...

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by Geezus_42 » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:41 PM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #40

ryanmcbride wrote: post #39

I don't have any hard proof but you can ask my wife, a few years ago I totally called that bonzibuddy was gonna come back in style. We're almost there

Bonzibuddy, but with AI.

I'm surprised no one has brought back the desktop stripper yet.

Now with state of the art GFE AI!

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by mckn1ght » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:42 PM UTC

scottyah wrote: post #18

pavel_lishin wrote: post #9

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

I think this was the same one that also had the trampoline chicken that would bounce higher and higher each time?

I’ve looked for those a couple times in recent years but with no luck. Are they lost to time or am I just not looking well enough?

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by BWStearns » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:49 PM UTC

Do not taunt happy fun ball.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by h2odragon » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:50 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #37

Amazing! Now to get this approved as business critical software at work... :)

Dexterity development, ergonomic assistant, etc

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by fanf2 » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 11:59 PM UTC

Reminds me of playing around with the WIMP on an Acorn Archimedes in about 1990, making a trivial app in BBC BASIC V that put a bouncing ball on the icon bar. Good times.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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Post by proee » Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 12:11 AM UTC

nxobject wrote: post #34

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.

Agree. Remember those amazing fish screen savers back in the 90's. Those blew my mind. I have not seen any modern versions of that. Someone please take my money.