eliot-akira/neko

Neko is a cross-platform open-source animated cursor-chasing cat screenmate application

Neko

Neko is a cross-platform open-source animated cursor-chasing cat screenmate application.

Article

Neko: A History of a Software Pet

New

• Icon library: Collection of Neko variants found in the wild
• jneko - JavaScript implementation of Neko
• neko - A complete re-implementation in Go, using the Ebiten gaming library

Archive

This is a historical archive of source code related to the Neko project.

• 1988 - NEKO.COM (NEC PC-9801)
• 1989 - Neko DA (Macintosh)
• 1990 - xneko (X Windows)
• 1991 - Cat and Mouse (OS/2)
• 1991 - WNEKO (Windows 3.x)
• 1992 - Neko Runs Free (Windows 3.x)
• 1993 - Ameko (Amiga)
• 1993 - oneko (Linux)
• 1997 - Icon Libraries (Windows)
• 1998 - Neko98 (Windows)
• 2000 - Replicat (BeOS)
• 2000 - Neko Saver (Macintosh)
• 2004 - webneko (JavaScript)
• 2010 - Neko in Java
• 2010 - Neko touchscreen program (Arduino)
• 2010 - Neko x64 (Windows)
• 2011 - ANeko (Android)

Screenshots

Neko DA for Macintosh

Neko for Windows 3

Cat and Mouse for OS/2

Neko98

References

• Neko (ソフトウェア)

neko's Issues

Ideas for collaboration

Hi!

I loved your article and this archive. I have a similar history with Neko and also wrote an article:

https://evertpot.com/neko/

I hope it's ok i used some of your information and images. I made sure to attribute you and link back to your post. If you're not OK with it, I can take it down

Animations on the article page are missing a frame

I found your article about the history of Neko, and was saving the images from the Icon Library section so I could use some of the skins. But I noticed that each skin only had 31 frames instead of the correct 32. Towards the end of the animation right before the yawn, it turns out that the "licking" frame (the one where it tilts its head sideways and raises its paw) is instead replaying the still frame. So instead of having the correct 32 images, there is only 31 images since "still" is included twice.

NekoDA file empty

The archived version of NekoDA is 0 bytes in size.

I followed the Internet Archive link in the README and downloaded the SIT file myself, and sure enough, after extraction all that remains is an empty file.

I don't know why this happens – my only guess is that the SIT format has evolved over the years, and today's software is simply unable to extract the relatively old archive – but I thought I'd let you know anyway.