By: marsha56
I've never stopped missing the mirrored paintbrushes in the really old version of MacPaint. You could have up to 7 mirrors, giving an eight sided symmetrical image of whatever you drew as you were...
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Every time an error message would pop up on screen (Like "Error -36," remember that one?) the Talking Moose would pipe up with, "It's not my fault!" To this day, my husband imitates the Moose when...
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I think the greatest toy for the Mac ever was a little Desk Accessory called "Fun House." I think I first saw it on the very first Mac OS version. I got it from a Mac developer, it was a little demo of...
View ArticleBy: Malor
davejay: I had a software speech synthesizer for my 8-bit Atari 800, called SAM. If you listen to the Atari ST link up above, it's pretty much the same. I guess Atari just ported the old software,...
View ArticleBy: tonycpsu
A good friend of mine turned me on to "MacPuke", a System 5 (and possibly earlier) extension that would play a vomiting sound when you ejected a floppy. Coming from the DOS PC world, and being in my...
View ArticleBy: Kwine
I am thirty, taking a break from my work project that would have been a completely preposterous nonstarter with the technology available four years ago. I have started to become grateful for computer...
View ArticleBy: hippybear
There were a few arcade games that had some speech Remember how thrilling and exciting it was to have this talking to you in the darkness of the arcade?
View ArticleBy: Celsius1414
It's interesting that poorly executed 2D is charming and poorly executed 3D is OMIGOD THE HORROR THE HORROR Hey, that fits for my dream Classic Mac UI too! ;D
View ArticleBy: unSane
It's interesting that poorly executed 2D is charming and poorly executed 3D is OMIGOD THE HORROR THE HORROR
View ArticleBy: egypturnash
And the SEPARATION BETWEEN EVERY SINGLE TOOTH oh god AAAAH If I knew 3D modelling I would make a moose head, and several morph targets, PRO BONO. Because AAAAGGGHHH.
View ArticleBy: egypturnash
Oh god. That... thing. I... Its brow-ridges are moving but its eyes are not changing shape. It's got a little human mouth beneath a giant Bullwinkle schnozz. It's got wide-open eyes that never close. I...
View ArticleBy: gusandrews
No love for SimStapler or Jared? Bring back early Freeverse, with their best-part's-in-the-liner-notes attitude!
View ArticleBy: jessamyn
That is not where a moose's mouth goes. That has been my problem with the whole thing! I mean, I love this idea and have been so pleased to see Steven Halls working on it and extra specially liked the...
View ArticleBy: davejay
You may, however, need to be old for this crude speech synthesis to make you smile. This is from an era when a computer doing anything other than bleeping and blooping was still pretty novel. There...
View ArticleBy: Splunge
TedW: "A talking Møøse once bit my sister ..." Came to comments for this. Was not disappointed.
View ArticleBy: Celsius1414
Oh, man. What I wouldn't give for the old-school Mac GUI on a modern OS. /sigh
View ArticleBy: Anything
'This week on Talking moose lives, we discuss the story of one bull moose born near Losby, Norway, around the year 1997. If you are a long-time listener of this programme, you might suspect much of...
View ArticleBy: GenjiandProust
Well, son, when Jimmy Durante and a moose meet each other and fall in love You are a bad bad person and should be very very sorry.
View ArticleBy: not_on_display
Well, son, when Jimmy Durante and a moose meet each other and fall in love, and decide they love each other very very much, and would like to share their love and start a family, they get into bed, and...
View ArticleBy: fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit
Does this mean I can still hold out hope for an updated Oscar the Grouch INIT that will sing whenever I throw files into the Trashcan? Warning! Children tend to throw lots of files into the trash to...
View ArticleBy: charlie don't surf
Oh those were the good old days, when you could easily install prankware like the Moose. My favorite was "Mitten Touch Typist." About one in 5 to 10 keystrokes would produce a random key next to the...
View ArticleBy: Rich Smorgasbord
Ackkk! They can try to spin it as modern or updated but the 3D moose has zero charm. I'm even a little repulsed by the way it's ingratiatingly wagging everything it can at me.
View ArticleBy: antonymous
I hope there's an option to just use the 1.0 version of the Moose. The 3D thing is really kinda creepy (and as a concept, almost as dated as the Moose itself). The Talking Moose should also remain...
View ArticleBy: Namlit
talking Møøse So he talked Mock-Norwegian? 'Cause we say älg around here, and also "the moose (Alces alces L.) went extinct in Denmark around 2.600 BC." When I look at that guy, what I'm thinking is,...
View ArticleBy: Malor
Heh, that's pretty cute. Getting it running via Mini vMac is really pretty easy, just follow the directions -- basically download, unzip, and drag the System disk file onto the emulator program. You...
View ArticleBy: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish
I don't have a Mac, so I guess I'll just leave you all to your moosey fate.
View ArticleBy: mrgrimm
If you can remember the '80s you did something wrong. I was a child. BonziBuddy>TalkingMoose Oh, BonziBuddy. The source of one of my favorite software security terms ever: Backdoor Santa. Fun fact:...
View ArticleBy: RolandOfEld
That's cool and all but I don't think I ever experienced it. What I remember experiencing and loving and identifying with in school computer labs was the After Dark suite of screensavers that you could...
View ArticleBy: roger ackroyd
Talking Moose was on the Macs in the computer lab in high school. I'll never forget him telling me, "A man walks into a bar. He cries out in pain."
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