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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by anonymousisme on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:34PM (#24190288)
Never saw the spider, but I do remember "xroach", in which roaches would scatter from underneath where a window was after being closed.

Great fun from about 25-30 years ago.

EDIT: It looks like xroach still lives! https://www.freshports.org/games/xroach/

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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by bitwize on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:58PM (#24193268)
A bitmap spider figures into a display-hack demo in Open Genera that I could never get working. I think it may be more related to that.
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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by mncharity on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:32PM (#24247038)
That sounds right - tnx!
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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by mncharity on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:30PM (#24190910)
> xroach still lives!

Ha. I've an old AR head-pans-around-desktop hack. Xroach in AR might make fun video...

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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by Shared404 on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:32PM (#24191690)
Usually when I hear "might make fun video..." I'm intrigued.

I'll pass on this though.

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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by tingletech on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:04PM (#24194554)
Fragile e-amber
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