[TommyBoy]

Hello IRIXnet,

   I'm sure that all of us remember Tamagotchis. You know, the egg-shaped virtual pets that we all spent a ridiculous amount of time and energy trying to feed and take care of using the pushes of three little buttons. Fun times there.

   One thing that you may not know about is that nowadays, they are a fun little desktop novelty for windows machines. If you visit the following link, you'll see the website for Tamagotchi Simulator 3.0.

http://tamagotchi.chez.com/

 The device shows up on your desktop without a window around it, and then the tamagotchi is fully interactive. It works just like the real devices did back in the day. Also, you can change the look on the device's casing, replace the sprite-sheet with newer and better-illustrated sprites, and customize a lot of the features. It's a lot of fun. 

    The reason for this thread is because... Well... Like most of us on this site I use IRIX a lot. I thought it would be cool to have Tamagotchi simulator on my Indy. The source code is available on the weblink below.

http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/metr.../gwsim.htm

    Would anybody on here be able to download the source code, make some small modifications as necessary, and then compile it for IRIX? I'm sure that many of us would get a kick out of this little desktop gimmick.

    "So does anybody have any new ideas for the Indigo Magic Desktop? What's it missing?.... Yes, you over there?"  
    "It needs Tamagotchi, a little virtual pet to keep the user company." 
    "YESSSS!!! Perfect!" 

[robespierre]

Far more entertaining was the Tamagothi, a virtual antisocial creature that you evolve by judicious administration of heroin, speed pills, and beatings. There are still some traces on the net of this late 90s classic satire.

[vishnu]

Hrm, that source code link doesn't work, but a quick web search turns up a plethora of other replicas, written in a variety of obscure languages... 😳

[TommyBoy]

Hrm, that source code link doesn't work, but a quick web search turns up a plethora of other replicas, written in a variety of obscure languages... 😳

It should work. Just go to the website that it brings you to and scroll to the bottom where it shows Tamagotchi simulator. There it has a link to the app and a link to the source code.

---OR---

Just use this link. It should directly download the zip file.

http://www.oocities.org/HotSprings/Oasis...source.zip
http://www.oocities.org/HotSprings/Oasis...source.zip

[vishnu]

Hrm, maybe I'm an idiot but that link doesn't work from here either, if you've downloaded it you can attach it here, MyBB permits to attach zip files... 😛

[Raion]

But we don't. I've prohibited it because I've seen too many exploits over my time where zip files contain arbitrary code execution. He can wrap it in tarballs though

[jpstewart]

Those source links are broken for me, too.  Error 404s.  Poking around archive.org, I did find a description page from way back on November 2, 1999 that lists the system requirements including "Microsoft Windows 95 or later or Windows NT" and "Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Runtime Library".  Based on that, it would require a complete re-write for IRIX (or Linux or anything recent).

https://web.archive.org/web/199911270802...m1sim2.htm

Actually, as I type this, I'm realizing that you can scroll down that page to the very bottom and the source download works!  So if somebody really wants the VB 5 source code for Windows 95, there it is.

(And to save others the time, that's the last working archive.org link.  I checked!)

[vishnu]

Well here's a thought, has anyone ever tried to compile wine on Irix? By way of disclaimer I've never used wine because I have no interest in ever running Microsoft software. 😜

[Raion]

WINE isn't an x86 emulator, it cannot translate instructions like that. But SW95, Bochs or Qemu is a bit of an option.

[TommyBoy]

Well in that case... Maybe its best to just find another source code for a desktop virtual pet. There's other ones out there.