Bds

BDS is the Macintosh edition of Bad Day Simulator 2001 by Vince Hodgson's Practically Useless Software, a self-deprecating joke app that lets you endure a virtual bad day so you can enjoy your real one. The package ships as a tiny 68k/PPC binary distributed through Info-Mac.

Premise

The author's Info-Mac note pitches the program as a way to safely experience "Sorrow, Woe, Bad Times," with the new 2001 release adding the long-requested "GOOD TIMES!!!!" feature. There is no real goal beyond clicking through a series of small misfortunes (and the occasional reprieve).

History

Bad Day Simulator was originally written for the Amiga in AMOS in 1991 and then ported to other platforms, including a 68k Macintosh build by Graham Cox and a Windows 3.1 version by Stephen Baxter. After living on the web for four years from 1997, Hodgson rebuilt it as BDS 2001 for desktop release.

Requirements

Per the author: "Any Mac (68k or PPC)" and "plenty of time to waste." The release is mail-ware: the program is free to use, and the author asks only that users send him an email so he can see where it ended up.

Distribution

The file was contributed by Vince Hodgson (vincent.hodgson@ntlworld.com) and mirrored from info-mac/game/bds.hqx on ftp.funet.fi as a BinHex 4.0 archive. No screenshots were attached to the original Info-Mac submission.