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Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by 4ggr0 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:10AM (#38472511)
Really love the wallpaper on one of their screenshots[1], anyone knows the source? Is it integrated into Kolibri?

[1] https://kolibrios.org/i/slaid/slaid1.png

EDIT1: Seems to be from an old video game called Cosmic Osmo? https://www.flickr.com/photos/dot_tiff/3402910182/in/photost...

EDIT2: Web Archive to the rescue! https://web.archive.org/web/20130727123433/http://futurestac...

EDIT3: Looks cute :) https://imgur.com/a/j9XAWjN

Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by RolloTom on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:28AM (#38472663)
Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by 4ggr0 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:32AM (#38472695)
Oh, very nice :) Even higher-res than what I found. Thanks! Didn't expect someone at ETH Zurich to host these wallpapers. I like this version without the spaceship a bit more.
Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by ngoldbaum on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:19AM (#38472595)
It’s a screenshot from Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel.
Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by 4ggr0 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:23AM (#38472622)
Yeah, thanks! Found the name of the game at around the same time you answered me, and was able to access the actual screenshot with Web Archive. The original includes a small spaceship which is missing on the KolibriOS version.
Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by ngoldbaum on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:13AM (#38475259)
If you like the art you should try and play Cosmic Osmo! It was my favorite game to play on the Performa PowerPC macs my elementary school had. It’s a very short and silly game made with hypercard. The creators later made Myst using the same technology.
Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by 4ggr0 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:30AM (#38475478)
I should, yeah, just saw that it's available on Steam :) Would probably be the oldest game I've ever played. Well, except Pong, Tetris etc.

> The creators later made Myst using the same technology

Tried to play Myst as a 10 year old, but wasn't smart enough to figure it out. Maybe Cosmic Osmo is more on my level ;) Really want to try it out this weekend, according to Wikipedia it was a pretty revolutionary game. Also never heard of Hypercards before today (the last Hypercard update was released the year I was born).

Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by pmcjones on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:00AM (#38474300)
Is it inspired by the baobab trees in Antoine de Saint Exupéry‘s _The Little Prince_? See page 15 of https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp508/files/2016/02/TheLittlePrince.p...
Re:Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using inter... by IlliOnato on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:30AM (#38474682)
I believe it's inspired by illustrations for Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry. The style and pixellation are very cool, regardless!