Over 1,000 Windows 95 Programs/Over 1000 Windows 95 Programs (Microforum) (Disc 2).iso/0426/ants.msg

INI File | 1997-04-01 | 2KB | 36 lines

[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.