"Gag programs" for the Amiga
 

I faintly remember a disk that had various "gag programs" that mostly created weird and annoying effects in the workbench environment (they were all workbench executables). The only one I can really remember is a melting effect, where the whole workbench screen with all windows and drawers melts and sags towards the bottom and you can't do anything anymore. I think most of these simple programs had a way to reset them with the Escape key or something, but for some, you just had to restart the poor Amiga. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

One that I remember was called "Vacbench". It changed the mouse pointer into a vacuum cleaner and as you moved the pointer around the screen it would "suck up" everything off of the screen.

There were two that I used somewhat regularly. One involved lemmings wandering around and falling off the sides of windows. I think this is it.

The other I think was called WBSnow and involved snow falling and accumulating on the Workbench. There’s a program on Aminet under that name but the one I had was much older. Not sure if it was an older version or a different program entirely. If the latter, I should check to see if I have the archive somewhere. (I suspect there is a lot of older North American Amiga shareware/freeware currently missing from Aminet.)

I remember a program which does apparently nothing. No output at all.

But after a couple of minutes, a fullscreen skull appears and a scream sample is played.

I have a whole collection of these ;)

iirc Amiga Format cover discs used to have few of those regularly....

Or the one where cockroaches live underneath the workbench windows. When you move the window, the cockroaches hurry to the next window to hide behind [emoji23]

I have all those mentioned above :)

They were called 'Workbench Hacks' and they featured regularly on random early AF coverdisks.

Would you mind upping them to the zone? I'd really like to try them out on my Miggies.

There surely were such programs on Network CD by Weird Science.

Sure :agree
But on Sunday. I am just leaving for 4 days Amiga party :crazy

game/gag on Aminet is mostly these kinds of programs.

And I believe the snow program I mentioned in my previous post is game/gag/snow.lha

Yeah wow, loads of them: http://de.aminet.net/aminet/game/gag/

I want to try ARoach ;)

Ah, cool thanks! No time today, will look into it the next days. Cheers!
@Predseda Enjoy the Party! 4 days, OMG :D:cheese

These programs are a gag.

:)

Also known as screen hacks.