...you have Tiny Elvis installed.
Yes, someone still has a download for it. Now this brings back laughs and memories from the early 90s on my 486. Does not work well in Win95 because it shrinks to the taskbar rather than an animated icon on the desktop. Windows 3.1 for best effect.
This could probably be revived in gadget/widget form on modern OSes (or maybe augmented reality on mobile devices)
My obligatory annoyance on Win3.1 was some port of Neko 🤣
The one I'm most familiar with is sheep.exe, available at http://www.smart-central.com/SillyStuff/SillyStuff3.htm .
Sadly, someone deleted the very informative Wikipedia page.
http://web.archive.org/web/20091010013057/htt … org/wiki/ESheep
A bit of searching reveals that someone has attempted a 64-bit version:
http://esheep.petrucci.ch/
No Johnny Castaway?
Aye, some of those old screensavers were great. For all the calls of "OMG PRESERVATION!!" you'd expect there would be several screensaver museums at this point.
I particularly recall one Simpsons Itchy and Scratchy screensaver (possibly from After Dark) running on a Macintosh where they would chase each other around the windows, and Itchy would start hurling icons and closing windows.
wrote:For all the calls of "OMG PRESERVATION!!" you'd expect there would be several screensaver museums at this point.
wrote:...you have Tiny Elvis installed.
Yes, someone still has a download for it. Now this brings back laughs and memories from the early 90s on my 486. Does not work well in Win95 because it shrinks to the taskbar rather than an animated icon on the desktop. Windows 3.1 for best effect.
OMG! 😮
I remember that Elvis detector! I must have been about seven years young when I've found it on my Shareware CDs..
Boy, that's really long ago now. I still had my 286 then, when I still made my backups on floppies. ^^
Btw, this reminds me of all of the other "fun stuff" with animated icons. As you said, Win 3.1 works best for it.
The new Win95 had sometimes issues with them, because of the task bar and such.
I believe these type of gadgets orginated from the Windows /386 times.
The galloping horse and globe where one of the early ones, I guess.
@Jorpho Oh, yes! Sheep! I remember this one, too. It's similar to Neko, albeit more crazy! ^^
@leileilol Thanks for that link!
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wrote:No Johnny Castaway?
Thank you for reminding me of this! I had a vague memory of it from the day but didn't remember the title till I read your post. Just installed it on 2 machines, win 3.1 and win ME. it is totally brilliant!
Great site dedicated to Johnny Castaway 😀 http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gnudawn/johnny/
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wrote:This could probably be revived in gadget/widget form on modern OSes (or maybe augmented reality on mobile devices)
My obligatory annoyance on Win3.1 was some port of Neko 🤣
Can you imagine? Augmented reality external environment object recognition that Tiny Elvis responds to. I think it would drive a person mad.
wrote:For all the calls of "OMG PRESERVATION!!" you'd expect there would be several screensaver museums at this point.
Might have something to do with the fact that searching Google for screensavers inevitably leads you to malware within the first few results 🤣
That said, I would be all over a vintage screensaver site. Hell, if we could get some together I'd host it. I really miss them.
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