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		perryizgr8 on June 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock Reminds me of a toy that would let you break/destroy the screen with a variety of tools like hammer, drill, bomb, etc.

ville on June 26, 2024 [–]

Desktop Toys!

I remember playing with this on Windows 95, but it turns out it was made for Windows 3.1 initially.

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sesM1fygKDs

Internet archive: https://archive.org/details/desktoptoys_201911

perryizgr8 on June 26, 2024 | | [–]

I was using this on XP!

Edit: Noooooo I was playing some other program! It looked slightly better than this. Can't find it now :(

Bluestein on June 26, 2024 | | [–]

TIL PowerToys was a 3.1 thing. Many thanks.-

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