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Really love the wallpaper on one of their screenshots[1], anyone knows the source? Is it integrated into Kolibri?

[1] https://kolibrios.org/i/slaid/slaid1.png

EDIT1: Seems to be from an old video game called Cosmic Osmo? https://www.flickr.com/photos/dot_tiff/3402910182/in/photost...

EDIT2: Web Archive to the rescue! https://web.archive.org/web/20130727123433/http://futurestac...

EDIT3: Looks cute :) https://imgur.com/a/j9XAWjN

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You can also find it here https://sid.ethz.ch/debian/kolibrios/kolibrios/res/wallpaper... https://sid.ethz.ch/debian/kolibrios/kolibrios/res/wallpaper...

Oh, very nice :) Even higher-res than what I found. Thanks! Didn't expect someone at ETH Zurich to host these wallpapers. I like this version without the spaceship a bit more.

Is it inspired by the baobab trees in Antoine de Saint Exupéry‘s _The Little Prince_? See page 15 of https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp508/files/2016/02/TheLittlePrince.p...

It’s a screenshot from Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel.

Yeah, thanks! Found the name of the game at around the same time you answered me, and was able to access the actual screenshot with Web Archive. The original includes a small spaceship which is missing on the KolibriOS version.

If you like the art you should try and play Cosmic Osmo! It was my favorite game to play on the Performa PowerPC macs my elementary school had. It’s a very short and silly game made with hypercard. The creators later made Myst using the same technology.

I should, yeah, just saw that it's available on Steam :) Would probably be the oldest game I've ever played. Well, except Pong, Tetris etc.

> The creators later made Myst using the same technology

Tried to play Myst as a 10 year old, but wasn't smart enough to figure it out. Maybe Cosmic Osmo is more on my level ;) Really want to try it out this weekend, according to Wikipedia it was a pretty revolutionary game. Also never heard of Hypercards before today (the last Hypercard update was released the year I was born).

I believe it's inspired by illustrations for Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry. The style and pixellation are very cool, regardless!

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