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Everything old is new again. Back in the Windows 95 days, there were a handful of freeware games that played with no window and entirely by displaying a changi
by vikingerik 3y ago
Everything old is new again. Back in the Windows 95 days, there were a handful of freeware games that played with no window and entirely by displaying a changing icon in the system tray. I remember having executables for clones of Pong, Space Invaders, Tetris, and chess that played this way with the icon as their only 'screen'.
- actionfromafar 3y agoI had a little sheep which walked on top of windows, and occassionally fell off them. When I switched to Linux, I was astonished that sheep.exe worked on Wine, too. This was ca 2000.
- EmilyHughes 3y agoI guess because it's nothing more than a transparent window that is reading out information about other windows and changing its own position. So pretty basic WinAPI calls.
- MrGilbert 3y agoOh, I remember that one, too! I think it's time for a modern revamp.
- memalign 3y agoThere’s a web version we can embed on our personal websites now! https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet//desktopPet/ https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet//desktopPet/
- hgsgm 3y agoBroken link. Fixed: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet