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/
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.)
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/
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 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.
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!
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?
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
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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).
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 <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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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).
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. ;)
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.
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
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
| Sysop: | DaiTengu |
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| Location: | Appleton, WI |
| Users: | 1,089 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 154:06:33 |
| Calls: | 13,921 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 187,021 |
| D/L today: |
3,790 files (953M bytes) |
| Messages: | 2,457,166 |