Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

me: wow what a delicious dinner i am enjoying eating

my shoulder: LOL FUCK THAT TIME TO HURT

@maple nah i think it's just about the same shit. there's now day-night cycles ooh aah and some additional vanilla breeds and i think that's it

now, i may not have a CS degree, or know any programming language, or know what FOSS stands for, but i do think that i am showing that, at heart, i belong here in this tribe, as i am looking at a tool someone programmed to solve this problem, examining it, and cheerfully declaring

"but what if i built a rickety card tower of apps and compatibility modes instead? for fun?"

"harp why not use the utility that lets you tinker with that directly, the PetzA addon from Sherlock Software?"

because that's cheating

"but a separate program to spoof the system date/time and manipulating that.... isn't???"

Yes. #petztalk

i was going to do the smart thing and set my time back so i could adopt petz and have them grow up cheatily but apparently there's now layers of internet safety that when i tried i got a heaping pile of SET YOUR TIME, DUMBASS and all net connections refused 6u9 Whoops

so i guess that i will...... ..........just wait

....

or i will try this charmingly rough and tumble bare-bones-engineering looking solution!!!!! https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html #petztalk

OKAY THERE MAY STILL BE ERRORS LOL, it's quite mad at the resolution a bit

fortunately it's a known problem http://petzforum.proboards.com/thread/48692 and if you bump the resolution down a bit overall petz get their faces back. i didn't have to go down to smallest, this is 12something x 768 where the game has given catz back their faces #petztalk

@InspectorCaracal yep!! no computer exploding, no antivirus complaints.

LOUD NOSTALGIC EXCITEMENT

....i'm gonna tag this uhhhhhh #petztalk there we go. now innocent people can filter

YEEEEEEEAHHH I GOT PETZ 5 WORKING

i was flummoxed with it giving me a "weh your resolution is too small" error because Bih I Run 1300Somefuck x Somefuck That's Big Enough For Your 2002 Ass

but

it turned out it was mad i had it set at 125% display lol bc. my eyes not that good

BUT NOW IT WORK

@InspectorCaracal god that's such a mood!!! it's kind of lovely though, looking back and remembering the dear piles of pixels we loved so dearly...

@InspectorCaracal oh that IS extra hard O:

i gotta say i loved the maine coon personality the best, but the siamese crossing-their-paws-and-judging-you is just the best

@InspectorCaracal oh now THAT is a fun challenge

i never had goals that lofty, just "cat looks neato" 😂

@InspectorCaracal HONESTLY... MOOD

i mean i'm glad i did the hexxing that i did do - but breeding was a lot more about the joy of happy accidents, coincidence, and whatnot. on my nostalgia trip i'm laying down that i'm gonna download no hexxed breeds at all. i'm just gonna try to recreate some of my Prized Show Cats (LOL) with vanilla game only.

so uh REV UP THAT CHANGING THE SYSTEM CLOCK

@InspectorCaracal https://oldgamesdownload.com/dogz-5/ is what i'm trying! dogz first, then catz. there seem to be some other leads on the petz reddit. i'll let you know if it works or if my computer does this

it's only a matter of time until i start making up some extravagant cattery name, and then show names

and then hold the first mastodon invitational petz show

well boo and hiss, the download from carolyn's is corrupted

....but i found another

petz is still Gonna Happen

once i get catz 5 running i'm gonna try and remember how breeding works in there

my First Prize Show Catz that got lost in... somewhere via various computer failures was a russian blue x maine coon cross with the maine coon brindle texture over the blue.... and i'm gonna try to recreate that :3

i'm so glad these poirot episodes have decent subtitles because an aggravating number just have like. poirot says something. "[French]"

YEAH DUMBSHIT I KNOW, BUT FUCKIN WHAT

well i WAS gonna goof around in catz 5 but apparently google chrome's built-in viruscheck is very suspicious about .iso bits in .rars which is understandable but also Please Release My Files From The Wiggler, Chrome