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Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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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, o…

Anyone remember the Nike one? Where you could shoot a football into the desktop and it would burn it, or the player could slide and it would tear the picture

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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I ran something called Dogz [1] which was a pretty advanced dog simulator. You could train the dog to perform tricks or punish it if it did something you didn't like. They claimed to use AI and it worked very well although I don't know how much much was placebo. In any case, I remember it as being well ahead of its time. [1] https://youtu.be/8eqLzcvVpiM

I had both Catz and Dogz but I don’t recall them ever interacting with the desktop. Fun toy though. Kind of like a tamagotchi.

You could bring them out of the "pen" and then they'd run around on your desktop.

Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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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

What was this thing called?

Desktop Destroyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQRBpZKI3g
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