Ball is life
Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
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Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#52I 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!
Oh wow! Not sure if it was this exact program, but I remember some similar sheep roaming my desktop when I was young. It had the ability to draw pictures in MS Paint, and would often do so when you were working on something...
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#53I guess the duty of mentioning Neko befell on me this time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
Serendipity, I just mentioned neko a few days ago. It's even the last comment I made before making this one now:
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#54Does 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)
An article about Neko and historical archive: https://github.com/eliot-akira/neko
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#55Does 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/
Desktop goose [1] was mildly popular a few years ago
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#56I remember Docklings, a feature of early OSX that let devs put mini-apps in the Dock. I had one showing uptime, undoubtedly just piping the output from the CLI command. That was one of the early steps toward my interest in the CLI, which still wouldn’t be realized for a handful of years. This is a great throwback with more capability than those had. Very cool.
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#57I guess the duty of mentioning Neko befell on me this time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
It's been a _really_ long time since I've seen that cat. Thanks for the memories.
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#58I 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
My dad was so angry when I installed this on the family Packard Bell
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#59This 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)
If you’re still on a recent macOS, check out the page setup dialog in any app with printing.
(She’s still there, doing flips and precision bitmap alignment)
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#60I 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.
We got home internet for the first time around then, and its main use (to me) was going to downloads.com and getting screensavers.
I spent hours downloading one that was macaroni doing the Macarena.