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- [I asked locals how the ANTS program looked on a VGA WINdoze system]
-
- To: DAVID KIRSCHBAUM
- From: PAT SULLIVAN Submitted: Wed 6/10/92 - 01:15
- Subject: Ants.zip Status: Public
- Received: Wed 6/10/92 - 09:07 Group: MSDOS
-
- The ants certainly do zip. I tried it, I like it. That is, except for
- the fact that I got a message with PageMaker saying I was using too much
- memory for optimum performance. But this is how it went:
-
- Little red ants scurried around in the background when all the screens
- were minimized. They scurried around quarter-inch-square chunks of
- previous screens. Occasionally pieces of toast would pop up for them to
- eat. Pretty soon they started to die off (the entire set-up reminds me
- of that thing "Life" where the numbers generated pods that grew or didn't
- grow and collided with each other killing them or reinforcing them).
- After a little while longer the screen began to get cluttered with dead
- ants.
-
- When I got tired of watching the ants and looked at other screens, there
- were no ants as they always ran in the very background. But switching
- back to all screens minimized always rejuvenated the population and gave
- them different pieces of screen chunks and toast.
-
- The more times I selected "ants.exe" the more ants I had scurrying
- around. One selection of "ants.exe" only gave me about five ants so I
- selected it about seven times to give me an entire ant farm.
-
- That is what the screen is called, "Ant Farm." Funny thing, though -
- when an "Ant Farm" screen is maximized, there is nothing on there.
- Minimize it and the ants are there.
-
- 'Twas a nice toy.
-