Newton Virus needs to be updated. :D

[olePigeon]

I actually had never seen this before. This is hilarious. Needs to be updated to work past 10.5.

 

[dcr]

I vaguely remember it.

 

[joshc]

Somehow missed this, I don't recall it.

It's actually part of MoMA's permanent collection!

Troika, ‘Newton Virus’, MoMA Collection, New York

Troika's ‘Newton Virus’, is an original computer virus on a custom-designed USB stick, which is now part of the permanent collection at MoMA, New York.

troika.uk.com

 

[Angelgreat]

Let that old prank application stay on abandonware sites. It only worked on 10.0 thru 10.5 because it utilized PPC code. It worked on the Intel versions of 10.4 and 10.5 because of Rosetta. 10.7 dropped Rosetta, so if you want to rewrite it for Mac os 12 on both Intel and Apple Silicon, you can do it yourself if you want, but don't be surprised if Apple patches the exploits you utilize.

 

[Crutch]

I hadn’t heard about this but in retrospect the video voiceover feels like a ginormous amount of fluff ... This is a cool looking prank app but seems neither more nor less worth of inclusion in the “MoMA permanent collection” than, I don’t know, Eyeballs or the ’90s “I love it because it’s trash” Oscar the grouch app or Melt or …. wasn’t there an app that makes your ’80s Mac make a farting sound when you eject a disk? And there was definitely one that played the “When Harry Met Sally” sound clip when you plugged a charger into your early ’90s PowerBook.

I’m not buying any of this as deep commentary on the way we use technology, or whatever that video narrator guy and presumably the Troika people are saying.

Nifty visual though. Thanks for sharing, I’d never seen it before.

 

[volvo242gt]

I hadn’t heard about this but in retrospect the video voiceover feels like a ginormous amount of fluff ... This is a cool looking prank app but seems neither more nor less worth of inclusion in the “MoMA permanent collection” than, I don’t know, Eyeballs or the ’90s “I love it because it’s trash” Oscar the grouch app or Melt or …. wasn’t there an app that makes your ’80s Mac make a farting sound when you eject a disk? And there was definitely one that played the “When Harry Met Sally” sound clip when you plugged a charger into your early ’90s PowerBook.

I’m not buying any of this as deep commentary on the way we use technology, or whatever that video narrator guy and presumably the Troika people are saying.

Nifty visual though. Thanks for sharing, I’d never seen it before.

That would be the SoundMaster cdev, which works through 9.2.2. I have my G3 set to play a sound clip of someone upchucking something when ejecting media. Restarting causes Hal to say "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

Don't forget Zipple...