• Re: I hope Spalls is okay

    From Dimensional Traveler@dtravel@sonic.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Nov 14 17:54:27 2025
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    On 11/14/2025 12:20 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:45 this Friday (GMT):
    On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:38:38 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 11/13/2025 10:43 PM, Ant wrote:

    What's a brain? :P

    Something that those bigger, more evolved creatures that keep stepping
    on you have.

    actually that raises the question of where Ant's hive is

    Ants have brains; it's what the ophiocordyceps fungus burrows into to
    turn some ants into such interesting looking sculptures. :-)

    wwhats that

    (Also, amongst insects, ant brains are larger than many other insects
    of similar size. Also also, no such thing as 'more evolved'. Also also

    :0 woah thats really cool actually ^^
    ants are also really cute and i should draw them more

    also, I saw a movie once where the ants were bigger than people. It
    was in black-n-white so I'm pretty sure it must have been a
    documentary.)


    OOH that sounds cool what movie
    (also didnt know ants could see color :>)

    Probably 'Them'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/reference/

    Our Ant may want to also watch this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/reference/
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 15 05:06:50 2025
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    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    ...
    Probably 'Them'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/reference/

    Our Ant may want to also watch this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/reference/

    I didn't like it when I saw it decades ago. Them! rocked though.
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  • From Xocyll@Xocyll@gmx.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 15 06:45:23 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:

    On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:38:38 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 11/13/2025 10:43 PM, Ant wrote:

    What's a brain? :P

    Something that those bigger, more evolved creatures that keep stepping
    on you have.

    Ants have brains; it's what the ophiocordyceps fungus burrows into to
    turn some ants into such interesting looking sculptures. :-)

    (Also, amongst insects, ant brains are larger than many other insects
    of similar size. Also also, no such thing as 'more evolved'. Also also
    also, I saw a movie once where the ants were bigger than people. It
    was in black-n-white so I'm pretty sure it must have been a
    documentary.)

    Sounds like "Them!"
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

    Xocyll
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 15 14:35:50 2025
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    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:45:23 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the >entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:

    On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:38:38 -0800, Dimensional Traveler >><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 11/13/2025 10:43 PM, Ant wrote:

    What's a brain? :P

    Something that those bigger, more evolved creatures that keep stepping >>>on you have.

    Ants have brains; it's what the ophiocordyceps fungus burrows into to
    turn some ants into such interesting looking sculptures. :-)

    (Also, amongst insects, ant brains are larger than many other insects
    of similar size. Also also, no such thing as 'more evolved'. Also also >>also, I saw a movie once where the ants were bigger than people. It
    was in black-n-white so I'm pretty sure it must have been a
    documentary.)

    Sounds like "Them!"
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

    Got it in one!

    I saw the movie when I was still a callow youth (on TV, though, and
    not in a theatre. I'm not THAT old) and it left a lasting impression.
    Not so much for the ants themselves, as for the battle in the Los
    Angeles sewers that happens in the last quarter of the movie. I dare
    say that at least SOME of my love of Dungeons & Dragons comes from a
    wanting to recapture the magic of fighting monsters underground as
    portrayed by that movie.

    Having said that... the movie itself isn't anything I'd recommend
    people seek out. It has its moments but overall it's a fairly ordinary 'monster-of-the-week' pulp movie from the 50s, with some very wooden
    dialogue and unconvincing monsters. I found it amazing because I saw
    it once as a kid and then didn't see again for decades afterwards (I
    didn't even remember what it was called!). When I did finally see it
    again, I wondered why it had ever lingered in my uncoscious for so
    long.



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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 15 20:07:42 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    Sounds like "Them!"
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

    Got it in one!

    I saw the movie when I was still a callow youth (on TV, though, and
    not in a theatre. I'm not THAT old) and it left a lasting impression.
    Not so much for the ants themselves, as for the battle in the Los
    Angeles sewers that happens in the last quarter of the movie. I dare
    say that at least SOME of my love of Dungeons & Dragons comes from a
    wanting to recapture the magic of fighting monsters underground as
    portrayed by that movie.

    Having said that... the movie itself isn't anything I'd recommend
    people seek out. It has its moments but overall it's a fairly ordinary 'monster-of-the-week' pulp movie from the 50s, with some very wooden
    dialogue and unconvincing monsters. I found it amazing because I saw
    it once as a kid and then didn't see again for decades afterwards (I
    didn't even remember what it was called!). When I did finally see it
    again, I wondered why it had ever lingered in my uncoscious for so
    long.

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got
    into them because of adventure genre. :P
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  • From Mike S.@Mike_S@nowhere.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sun Nov 16 10:28:23 2025
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    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got
    into them because of adventure genre. :P

    I never played it but I remember it. It was one of Cinemaware's games.
    If I recall correctly, it was one of their better games.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sun Nov 16 23:13:40 2025
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    Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got >into them because of adventure genre. :P

    I never played it but I remember it. It was one of Cinemaware's games.
    If I recall correctly, it was one of their better games.

    Yep. I briefly played it in UAE or some Amiga emulator. Later on, I
    watched a video recording of the game so I didn't have to play. Ha!
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Nov 20 18:50:03 2025
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    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:13 this Sunday (GMT):
    Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert
    adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got
    into them because of adventure genre. :P

    I never played it but I remember it. It was one of Cinemaware's games.
    If I recall correctly, it was one of their better games.

    Yep. I briefly played it in UAE or some Amiga emulator. Later on, I
    watched a video recording of the game so I didn't have to play. Ha!


    On youtube?
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Nov 21 00:17:46 2025
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    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:13 this Sunday (GMT):
    Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >> >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got >> >into them because of adventure genre. :P

    I never played it but I remember it. It was one of Cinemaware's games.
    If I recall correctly, it was one of their better games.

    Yep. I briefly played it in UAE or some Amiga emulator. Later on, I watched a video recording of the game so I didn't have to play. Ha!

    On youtube?

    Yup!
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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Nov 21 09:36:13 2025
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    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), in
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    Sounds like "Them!"
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

    Got it in one!

    I saw the movie when I was still a callow youth (on TV, though, and
    not in a theatre. I'm not THAT old) and it left a lasting impression.
    Not so much for the ants themselves, as for the battle in the Los
    Angeles sewers that happens in the last quarter of the movie. I dare
    say that at least SOME of my love of Dungeons & Dragons comes from a
    wanting to recapture the magic of fighting monsters underground as
    portrayed by that movie.

    Having said that... the movie itself isn't anything I'd recommend
    people seek out. It has its moments but overall it's a fairly ordinary
    'monster-of-the-week' pulp movie from the 50s, with some very wooden
    dialogue and unconvincing monsters. I found it amazing because I saw
    it once as a kid and then didn't see again for decades afterwards (I
    didn't even remember what it was called!). When I did finally see it
    again, I wondered why it had ever lingered in my uncoscious for so
    long.

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got
    into them because of adventure genre. :P

    On the topic of the header, I picked up Empire of the Ants on sale, and
    it is charming. Sure, you are a jumping ant with a weird ass leg
    spreading parachute effect instead of soldier wings, but it's still fun.

    And then, there is always SimAnt to run in emulation.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Nov 21 10:47:05 2025
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    On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:17:46 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:13 this Sunday (GMT):
    Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >> >> >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got >> >> >into them because of adventure genre. :P

    I never played it but I remember it. It was one of Cinemaware's games.
    If I recall correctly, it was one of their better games.

    Yep. I briefly played it in UAE or some Amiga emulator. Later on, I
    watched a video recording of the game so I didn't have to play. Ha!

    And if you do want to play it, you can visit archive.org: https://archive.org/details/msdos_It_Came_from_the_Desert_1990

    There's also a sequel, "It Came From the Desert II: Antheads" (well,
    more of an expansion disk) that only came out on the Amiga. The
    original game came out for both DOS and Amiga. The version above is
    the (slightly-but-not-too) inferior DOS version.
    (If the expansion is available in streaming format on archive, I
    didn't find it in my --admittedly brief-- search).

    Both used to be available for sale as part of the Cinemaware Anthology
    on Steam and GOG, but it's been since delisted. Not before I snagged
    it though. So yo-ho-ho if you want to play either, I guess.

    I was never the biggest fan of Cinemaware games, but that might be
    because I came across them so late. By the time I did discover them,
    they felt really old. It had a lot of actions sequences too that I
    thought were particularly poorly done. And as much as I have fond
    memories of "Them!", I'm not really a fan of the type of 1950s
    pulp-scifi movies that the game emulates.




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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Nov 21 17:20:03 2025
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    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 00:17 this Friday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:13 this Sunday (GMT):
    Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >> >> >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got >> >> >into them because of adventure genre. :P

    I never played it but I remember it. It was one of Cinemaware's games.
    If I recall correctly, it was one of their better games.

    Yep. I briefly played it in UAE or some Amiga emulator. Later on, I
    watched a video recording of the game so I didn't have to play. Ha!

    On youtube?

    Yup!


    Fair, I've watched a lot of letsplays on yt :P
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 22 14:06:07 2025
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    Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), in
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    Sounds like "Them!"
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

    Got it in one!

    I saw the movie when I was still a callow youth (on TV, though, and
    not in a theatre. I'm not THAT old) and it left a lasting impression.
    Not so much for the ants themselves, as for the battle in the Los
    Angeles sewers that happens in the last quarter of the movie. I dare
    say that at least SOME of my love of Dungeons & Dragons comes from a
    wanting to recapture the magic of fighting monsters underground as
    portrayed by that movie.

    Having said that... the movie itself isn't anything I'd recommend
    people seek out. It has its moments but overall it's a fairly ordinary
    'monster-of-the-week' pulp movie from the 50s, with some very wooden
    dialogue and unconvincing monsters. I found it amazing because I saw
    it once as a kid and then didn't see again for decades afterwards (I
    didn't even remember what it was called!). When I did finally see it
    again, I wondered why it had ever lingered in my uncoscious for so
    long.

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert >adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got >into them because of adventure genre. :P

    On the topic of the header, I picked up Empire of the Ants on sale, and
    it is charming. Sure, you are a jumping ant with a weird ass leg
    spreading parachute effect instead of soldier wings, but it's still fun.

    Which one? There were two of them. I played the original. It was OK. I
    can't play the new one due to lack of resources. :(


    And then, there is always SimAnt to run in emulation.

    I played that on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC back then. It was OK.
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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 22 08:37:47 2025
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    On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:06:07 -0000 (UTC), in
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant wrote:

    On the topic of the header, I picked up Empire of the Ants on sale, and
    it is charming. Sure, you are a jumping ant with a weird ass leg
    spreading parachute effect instead of soldier wings, but it's still fun.

    Which one? There were two of them. I played the original. It was OK. I
    can't play the new one due to lack of resources. :(

    The reboot. The visuals are nice on my 4060 Ti based machine.

    I'm gonna try it on the TV, which has a 1080 GTX. Not sure if this thing
    is doing ray-tracing anywhere, so it might not look so good. Definitely
    has DLSS, and unfortunately very broken frame generation (like turn it
    off or the card goes to 85ºF and the sound stutters in and out).

    The TV was a much better place to play Stray, and I think EoTA is a good candidate for couch play.
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  • From rms@rmsmoo@moomoo.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 22 07:47:02 2025
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    The reboot. The visuals are nice on my 4060 Ti based machine.

    As I've mentioned before, the novel the games are based on, Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber, is quite enjoyable and well-written!

    rms

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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sun Nov 23 00:58:37 2025
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    rms <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote:
    The reboot. The visuals are nice on my 4060 Ti based machine.

    As I've mentioned before, the novel the games are based on, Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber, is quite enjoyable and well-written!

    And the crappy movie too!
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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Nov 22 22:47:27 2025
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    On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:37:47 -0600, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Zaghadka wrote:

    I'm gonna try it on the TV, which has a 1080 GTX. Not sure if this thing
    is doing ray-tracing anywhere, so it might not look so good. Definitely
    has DLSS, and unfortunately very broken frame generation (like turn it
    off or the card goes to 85ºF and the sound stutters in and out).

    To report on this, the 1080 GTX machine runs it at 1080p/30 rock-solid frames/highest settings and looks stunning. It defaulted to medium
    settings and 60 frames, which is a misprioritization for me. Since it's
    an RTS, 30 frames is fine. When I tried to run it at 60 frames high
    settings, it got 45-60 and stuttered horribly, so the 30 vsync is a must.

    For some reason it insists on upscaling. There's no option to turn that
    off/no antialiasing settings. There was little performance to be gained
    from taking it to 1600x900 or even 1280x720! There was also little
    difference between the TSR upscale quality settings. It's really designed
    with DLSS in mind.

    So, not bad for an aging 1080 GTX, but it *is* a little outclassed. It
    manages a beautiful game max settings running at console framerates.
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Nov 24 15:31:10 2025
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    On 11/21/2025 7:36 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:07:42 -0000 (UTC), in
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    Sounds like "Them!"
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

    Got it in one!

    I saw the movie when I was still a callow youth (on TV, though, and
    not in a theatre. I'm not THAT old) and it left a lasting impression.
    Not so much for the ants themselves, as for the battle in the Los
    Angeles sewers that happens in the last quarter of the movie. I dare
    say that at least SOME of my love of Dungeons & Dragons comes from a
    wanting to recapture the magic of fighting monsters underground as
    portrayed by that movie.

    Having said that... the movie itself isn't anything I'd recommend
    people seek out. It has its moments but overall it's a fairly ordinary
    'monster-of-the-week' pulp movie from the 50s, with some very wooden
    dialogue and unconvincing monsters. I found it amazing because I saw
    it once as a kid and then didn't see again for decades afterwards (I
    didn't even remember what it was called!). When I did finally see it
    again, I wondered why it had ever lingered in my uncoscious for so
    long.

    I saw it after college. Did you guys ever play It Came From the Desert
    adventure games with giant ants? Basically, they were THEM! I never got
    into them because of adventure genre. :P

    On the topic of the header, I picked up Empire of the Ants on sale, and
    it is charming. Sure, you are a jumping ant with a weird ass leg
    spreading parachute effect instead of soldier wings, but it's still fun.

    And then, there is always SimAnt to run in emulation.


    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was
    almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor.

    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least
    80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was
    earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want
    ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor
    it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well.

    I give up for now.
    --
    -Justisaur

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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Tue Nov 25 23:41:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    ...
    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was
    almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor.

    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least
    80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want
    ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor
    it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well.

    I give up for now.

    I remember this one like a decade ago. It was OK.

    There was a roach one for Windows: https://archive.org/details/win3_ROACH21 Maybe you got
    confused with it?
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Tue Nov 25 16:13:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 11/25/2025 3:41 PM, Ant wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    ...
    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was
    almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor.

    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least
    80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was
    earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want
    ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor
    it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well.

    I give up for now.

    I remember this one like a decade ago. It was OK.

    There was a roach one for Windows: https://archive.org/details/win3_ROACH21 Maybe you got
    confused with it?


    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing roaches than ants too.
    --
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  • From Xocyll@Xocyll@gmx.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Nov 26 07:53:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
    the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

    On 11/25/2025 3:41 PM, Ant wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    ...
    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was
    almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor.

    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least
    80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was
    earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want
    ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor
    it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well. >>
    I give up for now.

    I remember this one like a decade ago. It was OK.

    There was a roach one for Windows: https://archive.org/details/win3_ROACH21 Maybe you got
    confused with it?


    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >roaches than ants too.

    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your
    desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.

    Xocyll
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Nov 26 11:19:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:53:58 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
    the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:



    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >>roaches than ants too.


    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your
    desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.


    There was a flood of desktop companion apps (and similar) in the mid
    to late 90s. I remember introducing a relative to them once, and
    coming back a few months later to find their desktop almost covered in
    the things; virtual sheep, googly eyes, a cat, and I don't remember
    what else. It was almost impossible to USE the computer because some
    stupid animated character was constantly wandering in front of
    whatever it was you were looking at. Not to mention the computer ran
    incredibly slowly.

    Oh, Bonzai Buddy. That was another one. And custom cursors. And
    desktop sound effects. Argh.

    There were a lot of things cool about that era of personal
    computing... but those desktop widgets are one thing I'm glad are
    gone.




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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Nov 27 00:55:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:41 PM, Ant wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    ...
    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was
    almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor.

    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least
    80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was
    earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want
    ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor
    it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well.

    I give up for now.

    I remember this one like a decade ago. It was OK.

    There was a roach one for Windows: https://archive.org/details/win3_ROACH21 Maybe you got
    confused with it?


    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing roaches than ants too.

    Hehe. I don't care if you killed those ants since they're not from my
    colony. Nuke them from orbit if you must. ;)
    --
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Nov 27 01:07:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >>roaches than ants too.

    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your >desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.

    There was a flood of desktop companion apps (and similar) in the mid
    to late 90s. I remember introducing a relative to them once, and
    coming back a few months later to find their desktop almost covered in
    the things; virtual sheep, googly eyes, a cat, and I don't remember
    what else. It was almost impossible to USE the computer because some
    stupid animated character was constantly wandering in front of
    whatever it was you were looking at. Not to mention the computer ran incredibly slowly.

    Oh, Bonzai Buddy. That was another one. And custom cursors. And
    desktop sound effects. Argh.


    There were a lot of things cool about that era of personal
    computing... but those desktop widgets are one thing I'm glad are
    gone.

    Remember C&C theme for Windows? I can't remember if you needed Plus addon to use it. Also, Icon
    Hear It for Windows? I used that in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC's Windows 3.x when I was
    a teen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapRr5-oCGA for tht video. Geez, I remember that rabbit
    icon. Also, screen savers like AfterDark, Terminator 2, etc. Flashbacks!
    --
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Nov 26 19:43:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 11/26/2025 5:07 PM, Ant wrote:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >>>> roaches than ants too.

    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your
    desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.

    There was a flood of desktop companion apps (and similar) in the mid
    to late 90s. I remember introducing a relative to them once, and
    coming back a few months later to find their desktop almost covered in
    the things; virtual sheep, googly eyes, a cat, and I don't remember
    what else. It was almost impossible to USE the computer because some
    stupid animated character was constantly wandering in front of
    whatever it was you were looking at. Not to mention the computer ran
    incredibly slowly.

    Oh, Bonzai Buddy. That was another one. And custom cursors. And
    desktop sound effects. Argh.


    There were a lot of things cool about that era of personal
    computing... but those desktop widgets are one thing I'm glad are
    gone.

    Remember C&C theme for Windows? I can't remember if you needed Plus addon to use it. Also, Icon
    Hear It for Windows? I used that in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC's Windows 3.x when I was
    a teen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapRr5-oCGA for tht video. Geez, I remember that rabbit
    icon. Also, screen savers like AfterDark, Terminator 2, etc. Flashbacks!

    Oh I remember having a Fallout windows theme for awhile.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Nov 27 11:15:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:07:51 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >> >>roaches than ants too.

    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your
    desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.

    There was a flood of desktop companion apps (and similar) in the mid
    to late 90s. I remember introducing a relative to them once, and
    coming back a few months later to find their desktop almost covered in
    the things; virtual sheep, googly eyes, a cat, and I don't remember
    what else. It was almost impossible to USE the computer because some
    stupid animated character was constantly wandering in front of
    whatever it was you were looking at. Not to mention the computer ran
    incredibly slowly.

    Oh, Bonzai Buddy. That was another one. And custom cursors. And
    desktop sound effects. Argh.


    There were a lot of things cool about that era of personal
    computing... but those desktop widgets are one thing I'm glad are
    gone.

    Remember C&C theme for Windows? I can't remember if you needed Plus addon to use it.

    For Windows 95, you needed the Plus back as Theme support wasn't built
    into core functionality. With Windows98 and above, it came included
    with the OS.

    (Well, technically you didn't NEED Plus, though. It just made it
    easier. You _could_ manually assign the sounds, cursors and wallpaper.
    All the Theme pack really did was automate the process so all you had
    to do was click the .theme file to apply all the bling. You also got a
    nifty preview screen ;-)

    I had a love/hate affair with Themes. On the one hand, I frequently
    used them, and even 'published' a few to the Internet. But on the
    other hand, they were the bane of my existence whenever I had to do
    support on Win9x PCs. Mostly because of those awful animated cursors
    which made it difficult to click on things.

    [I recall one cursor of a hand that animated from a curled
    fist to it giving you the finger --hahaha, get it? It's a
    'curser'-- where the actual 'tip' of the cursor was the
    knuckle of the thumb. Cringey and unintuitive and absolutely
    typical of the era]

    And the sounds. Every time you clicked on something it went "wonk" or
    "wooga" or something equally obnoxious. It was just another level of
    annoyance you had to endure while fixing somebody's crufty, broken
    Windows computer... which was painful enough to start with. ;-)


    Also, Icon
    Hear It for Windows? I used that in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC's Windows 3.x when I was
    a teen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapRr5-oCGA for tht video. Geez, I remember that rabbit
    icon. Also, screen savers like AfterDark, Terminator 2, etc. Flashbacks!

    Ah, the sweet era of screensavers. These days a lot of people don't
    even use a screensaver, and I get it; why bother when your screen
    automatically dims after a few minutes of inactivity? But I still have
    a robust collection that I alternate through (even the old "Ribbons" screensaver with its neon colors still dominates my usage).

    Prior to Win9x, I also loved all the customisation tools for Windows
    3.1. There were so many ways to customise the shell!
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@dtravel@sonic.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Nov 27 09:29:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 11/27/2025 8:15 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:07:51 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >>>>> roaches than ants too.

    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your
    desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.

    There was a flood of desktop companion apps (and similar) in the mid
    to late 90s. I remember introducing a relative to them once, and
    coming back a few months later to find their desktop almost covered in
    the things; virtual sheep, googly eyes, a cat, and I don't remember
    what else. It was almost impossible to USE the computer because some
    stupid animated character was constantly wandering in front of
    whatever it was you were looking at. Not to mention the computer ran
    incredibly slowly.

    Oh, Bonzai Buddy. That was another one. And custom cursors. And
    desktop sound effects. Argh.


    There were a lot of things cool about that era of personal
    computing... but those desktop widgets are one thing I'm glad are
    gone.

    Remember C&C theme for Windows? I can't remember if you needed Plus addon to use it.

    For Windows 95, you needed the Plus back as Theme support wasn't built
    into core functionality. With Windows98 and above, it came included
    with the OS.

    (Well, technically you didn't NEED Plus, though. It just made it
    easier. You _could_ manually assign the sounds, cursors and wallpaper.
    All the Theme pack really did was automate the process so all you had
    to do was click the .theme file to apply all the bling. You also got a
    nifty preview screen ;-)

    I had a love/hate affair with Themes. On the one hand, I frequently
    used them, and even 'published' a few to the Internet. But on the
    other hand, they were the bane of my existence whenever I had to do
    support on Win9x PCs. Mostly because of those awful animated cursors
    which made it difficult to click on things.

    [I recall one cursor of a hand that animated from a curled
    fist to it giving you the finger --hahaha, get it? It's a
    'curser'-- where the actual 'tip' of the cursor was the
    knuckle of the thumb. Cringey and unintuitive and absolutely
    typical of the era]

    And the sounds. Every time you clicked on something it went "wonk" or
    "wooga" or something equally obnoxious. It was just another level of annoyance you had to endure while fixing somebody's crufty, broken
    Windows computer... which was painful enough to start with. ;-)


    Also, Icon
    Hear It for Windows? I used that in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC's Windows 3.x when I was
    a teen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapRr5-oCGA for tht video. Geez, I remember that rabbit
    icon. Also, screen savers like AfterDark, Terminator 2, etc. Flashbacks!

    Ah, the sweet era of screensavers. These days a lot of people don't
    even use a screensaver, and I get it; why bother when your screen automatically dims after a few minutes of inactivity? But I still have
    a robust collection that I alternate through (even the old "Ribbons" screensaver with its neon colors still dominates my usage).

    Screensavers still get some usage in business settings, mostly as a
    visual cue that your workstation has logged you out and locked for
    inactivity so you had to log in again.
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Dec 3 19:50:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 00:55 this Thursday (GMT):
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:41 PM, Ant wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    ...
    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was
    almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor. >> >
    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least >> >> 80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was
    earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want
    ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor
    it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well. >> >
    I give up for now.

    I remember this one like a decade ago. It was OK.

    There was a roach one for Windows: https://archive.org/details/win3_ROACH21 Maybe you got
    confused with it?


    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing
    roaches than ants too.

    Hehe. I don't care if you killed those ants since they're not from my colony. Nuke them from orbit if you must. ;)


    who knew ant competition was so fierce
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Dec 3 19:50:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote at 03:43 this Thursday (GMT):
    On 11/26/2025 5:07 PM, Ant wrote:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >>>>> roaches than ants too.

    The best of that type of app was the one that made the icons on your
    desktop, (or the desktop of an unsuspecting coworker,) afraid of the
    mouse cursor and run from it.

    There was a flood of desktop companion apps (and similar) in the mid
    to late 90s. I remember introducing a relative to them once, and
    coming back a few months later to find their desktop almost covered in
    the things; virtual sheep, googly eyes, a cat, and I don't remember
    what else. It was almost impossible to USE the computer because some
    stupid animated character was constantly wandering in front of
    whatever it was you were looking at. Not to mention the computer ran
    incredibly slowly.

    Oh, Bonzai Buddy. That was another one. And custom cursors. And
    desktop sound effects. Argh.


    There were a lot of things cool about that era of personal
    computing... but those desktop widgets are one thing I'm glad are
    gone.

    Remember C&C theme for Windows? I can't remember if you needed Plus addon to use it. Also, Icon
    Hear It for Windows? I used that in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC's Windows 3.x when I was
    a teen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapRr5-oCGA for tht video. Geez, I remember that rabbit
    icon. Also, screen savers like AfterDark, Terminator 2, etc. Flashbacks!

    Oh I remember having a Fallout windows theme for awhile.


    if there's one thing i like from fallout, its their asthetics
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Dec 4 11:16:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    ...
    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >> roaches than ants too.

    Hehe. I don't care if you killed those ants since they're not from my colony. Nuke them from orbit if you must. ;)

    who knew ant competition was so fierce

    Just like humans. :P
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  • From Xocyll@Xocyll@gmx.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Dec 4 07:44:20 2025
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    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
    looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The
    Augury is good, the signs say:

    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 00:55 this Thursday (GMT):
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:41 PM, Ant wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    ...
    It's not what I was thinking of, but I remember some program that was >>> >> almost like a virus, I had in early windows that made ants crawl all
    over your desktop and you'd have to squish them with your mouse cursor. >>> >
    I'm trying to find it and found "Destroy Your Desktop" but I'm at least >>> >> 80% sure it wasn't that, as all it did was ants.

    Ah, after much more searching, I think I found it.

    https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants

    Wow, just updated and history goes back to 2009. I could swear it was >>> >> earlier than that like windows 3.11, but that looks like it.

    I tried it, you can't squish the ants, so that's not it. If you want >>> >> ants wandering around your desktop fleeing from or chasing your cursor >>> >> it's kind of cool, though I have dark mode on so can't see them too well.

    I give up for now.

    I remember this one like a decade ago. It was OK.

    There was a roach one for Windows: https://archive.org/details/win3_ROACH21 Maybe you got
    confused with it?


    YESSS! That was it! Many thanks Ant. I can feel better about squishing >>> roaches than ants too.

    Hehe. I don't care if you killed those ants since they're not from my
    colony. Nuke them from orbit if you must. ;)


    who knew ant competition was so fierce

    Jeremy Clarksant "How hard can it be?"

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