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Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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post #87

Exactly the kind of content I come to HN for. I wish someone would resurrect the Das Blinkenlights Mac screensaver. I think it was frozen in the Power PC age.

Go for it.

If the source was around somewhere, maybe. But I don’t think the author ever released it.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

#105
post #42

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)

Talking Moose!

Talking Moose, Kaleidoscope, Kilroy. So much fun and made your OS so unstable.

First rule of troubleshooting was always “turn off all extensions.” :)

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

#106
Boring. There was/is a Linux dock which was main demo of a physics engine. We could toss icons which would bounce off screen corner and land in some part of the dock. You never know what order your icons are in.

Dont forget to notice how old the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSZtTo1lXP8

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

#107
This reminds me of a Lara Croft desktop(?) Screensaver? She climbed onto the window's edges -that were open on your windows screen, rolled, jumped, etc. Sometimes made a comment about you not having cleaned up your desktop. It was a small executable, than ran with or without sound. It wasn't very random, but it made for an interactive mind distraction on a rough day. She also walked across the bottom of the screen, out to the right (eg), then you would hear her walking, and eventually she would show up on your left of the screen. Fun little thing with no particular purpose.
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