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Little guy that lives on your desk!
Published on December 13, 2005 By Draginol In Personal Computing

Just in time for Christmas, Stardock has released the Desktop Pet.  The Desktop Pet lives on your Windows XP desktop. He will interact with various included desktop objects. A sophisticated artificial intelligence engine helps bring him to life by giving him needs such as hunger, sleep, boredom, and even (ahem) the need to take a potty break. 

Users can set the various included desktop objects to be automated or take care of the feeding and cleaning up on their own.  It also includes options for muting sound, pausing, and unloading. The pet is saved to disk regularly so that if you close it or reboot he will be back to where he left off when you bring him back up again.

Stardock hopes to keep updating the pet after release to keep adding new behaviors, additional objects, and new habits to help keep the experience fresh and to respond to customer input.  The Desktop Pet is a fun $10 diversion and makes a great stocking stuffer for the computer user in your family. 

The home page for the Desktop Pet is https://www.stardock.com/products/desktoppet 


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on Dec 18, 2005
Alex! Looks like good work. I'm hoping to get the Pet soon so I can play with it and see what it can do. Good to see you contributing!
on Dec 19, 2005
it looks like the thing before it becomes a grimlen. yeah, identicle. can't there be copywrite crap about using it? cause i swear its identicle, you know the form they are in before they eat after midnight then they become grimlens. and they reproduce by water. yeah, looks the same.
on Dec 19, 2005
Looks like a baby Yoda to me

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on Dec 20, 2005
The shape of the 'critter' is a generic one.  There are several quite similar short-arsed, big-eared furry thingies around.  'Gremlins' is just one....Yoda would be if he didn't have a debillitating skin disease that means he's bald....
on Dec 20, 2005
That would be awesome. He could take his lightsaber out and slash the desktop icons.
on Jan 07, 2006
Hmm... This Desktop Pet reminds me of Furby...
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