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Re: by vikingerik on Monday May 08, 2023 @05:08PM (#35867091)
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'.
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Re: by actionfromafar on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:46PM (#35867947)
I 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.

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Re: by EmilyHughes on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @02:56AM (#35871014)
I 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.
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Re: by MrGilbert on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @03:29AM (#35871214)
Oh, I remember that one, too! I think it's time for a modern revamp.
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Re: by memalign on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:33AM (#35871896)
There’s a web version we can embed on our personal websites now!

https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet//desktopPet/

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Re: by hgsgm on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @12:08PM (#35876483)
Broken link. Fixed: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet
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