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I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-file#desktop-pet-esheep https://github.com/Adriano

I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-file#desktop-pet-esheep 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!

DustinBrett 2y ago
I added this to my website a while ago. You can open a terminal and summon as many as your computer can handle with something like `sheep 100`. https://dustinbrett.com/ https://dustinbrett.com/
- sageecutee 2y ago
  quite cool. how did you make that website ?
  - lazylion2 2y ago
    https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
    - helboi4 2y ago
      this is so sick
- mixtureoftakes 2y ago
  very cool website! I did sheep 4000 and my pc immediately exploded
- madhato 2y ago
  The right click menu on the site is quite the trick. It took me way too long to figure out it wasn't the native Firefox menu.
  - Bluestein 2y ago
    (Also, among other things, all the posts are "editable" texts within a "text editor" in the simulated desktop. The whole site is bonkers ...)
dheera 2y ago
It looks like this repo is is a rewrite of an earlier "scmpoo.exe" that roamed the internet in the mid-1990s. That was fun to set up on school computers to automatically launch at random times.
- amethyst 2y ago
  That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!
AShyFig 2y ago
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...
ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
I was a big fan of VirtuaGirl myself. (NSFW if you Google about it).
- dyauspitr 2y ago
  You’re getting downvoted but it really was pretty fantastic.
- Bluestein 2y ago
  I had to admit it was also my first thought. The sprite was very very well done, actually ...
- Bluestein 2y ago
  Incredibly enough, the "VirtualGirl" executable is archived at the Internet Archive: - https://archive.org/details/virtuagirl265 https://archive.org/details/virtuagirl265 It has been found worthy of preservation.-
jorts 2y ago
Aww memories. One of my old colleagues would mess with my computer and added a bunch of these. I left them there much to his chagrin. I got revenge as one night he was in the office late at night by my desktop, it was completely dark in the office and the sheep baa’d and it scared the crap out of him.
aceazzameen 2y ago
Haha thank you! This was my first thought too!
guyrap 2y ago
Also: having Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion sitting on your windows.
Squarex 2y ago
Wow, thank you! That brings back unexpected memories of playing on my dad's first laptop.

DustinBrett 2y ago

I added this to my website a while ago. You can open a terminal and summon as many as your computer can handle with something like `sheep 100`. https://dustinbrett.com/ https://dustinbrett.com/

sageecutee 2y ago
quite cool. how did you make that website ?
- lazylion2 2y ago
  https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
  - helboi4 2y ago
    this is so sick
mixtureoftakes 2y ago
very cool website! I did sheep 4000 and my pc immediately exploded
madhato 2y ago
The right click menu on the site is quite the trick. It took me way too long to figure out it wasn't the native Firefox menu.
- Bluestein 2y ago
  (Also, among other things, all the posts are "editable" texts within a "text editor" in the simulated desktop. The whole site is bonkers ...)

dheera 2y ago

It looks like this repo is is a rewrite of an earlier "scmpoo.exe" that roamed the internet in the mid-1990s. That was fun to set up on school computers to automatically launch at random times.

amethyst 2y ago
That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!

AShyFig 2y ago

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...

ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago

I was a big fan of VirtuaGirl myself. (NSFW if you Google about it).

dyauspitr 2y ago
You’re getting downvoted but it really was pretty fantastic.
Bluestein 2y ago
I had to admit it was also my first thought. The sprite was very very well done, actually ...
Bluestein 2y ago
Incredibly enough, the "VirtualGirl" executable is archived at the Internet Archive: - https://archive.org/details/virtuagirl265 https://archive.org/details/virtuagirl265 It has been found worthy of preservation.-

jorts 2y ago

Aww memories. One of my old colleagues would mess with my computer and added a bunch of these. I left them there much to his chagrin. I got revenge as one night he was in the office late at night by my desktop, it was completely dark in the office and the sheep baa’d and it scared the crap out of him.

aceazzameen 2y ago

Haha thank you! This was my first thought too!

guyrap 2y ago

Also: having Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion sitting on your windows.

Squarex 2y ago

Wow, thank you! That brings back unexpected memories of playing on my dad's first laptop.