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Clint Sharp wrote:
OK. Then what happened next?
Well, you typed the name of the file you'd just created with gif2exe and
then the computer displayed the picture you'd added the header to.

We're waiting for some salacious content here. Did someone swoon,
scream, faint or all three? :-)

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Clint Sharp wrote:
OK. Then what happened next?
Well, you typed the name of the file you'd just created with gif2exe
and then the computer displayed the picture you'd added the header to.

We're waiting for some salacious content here. Did someone swoon,
scream, faint or all three? :-)

I couldn't possibly comment on the content of the pictures.
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Clint Sharp

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:38:28 +0100, Ian Jackson
sharpened a new quill and
scratched:

What did gif2exe do?

It made a GIF image self-viewable on a DOS screen. Not as great as
FLI2EXE or FLC2EXE, which made a self-playing animation.

There was Dolly.zip which in win 98 made sheep appear from behind icons etc
and do various disgusting things as i recall.


Back in the old days of the zx spectrum there used to be a 1 line program
which made the loading sound and bars forever and if you coupled it with an
anti break poke and a xxx is loading string on screen, many people would
stand in front of it for long periods until the penny dropped so to speak.

Brian

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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:38:28 +0100, Ian Jackson
sharpened a new quill and
scratched:

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In message , Adrian C
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Pyriform wrote:
I've often considered building a high power device which emits a
rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by
"bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game...

same here ;-)

And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside
Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11

Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-)

Adding a line to autoexec.bat on Tandy IBM compatibles to display a
picture, ISTR gif2exe was used by those particular miscreants.

In the good old DOS-only days, one Friday night, when everyone had gone
home, I honed my skills by adding something to the PC of one of my
colleagues (who then knew little about PCs). On boot-up, it
progressively filled the screen with the words ******** ********
******** etc. When full (after about 30 seconds), the screen cleared,
and the whole thing started again, ad nauseam. Oh how he laughed on
Monday morning. But, eventually, he did forgive me.

What did gif2exe do?

Anyone remember 'fall' and 'scroll'. Both worked with windows up to
3.11. The first caused letters the user typed to fall randomly off the
screen and pile up in a heap at the bottom, the second caused the
screen to scroll like a crt tv with the horizontal hold gone. I used
to love them. Two other more sophisticated ones were 'works' and
'windows'. The first had edges of saws appearing through the desktop
sawing panels out of the desktop and the second had a demolition swing
ball crashing into the desktop and causing shattered 'glass' to fall.

All harmless fun and simply removed by rebooting LOL

Kay

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