Keychain Cat
| Filename | keychain-cat-10.hqx |
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| Size | 310.1 KB (317504 bytes) |
| Downloads | 8 |
Keychain Cat is a 1997 virtual-pet program by Jim Plamondon that brought the late-1990s Tamagotchi craze to the Macintosh desktop. The owner feeds, plays with, and cares for an on-screen feline, watching for fleas and tending to illness, while the cat lets you know when it needs attention.
How it plays
You feed your cat dry and wet food and keep it active by encouraging play with a ball and string. Flea spray handles parasites, and medicine treats illness when the cat falls sick. The cat eats, sleeps, plays, and prompts the owner when something needs doing.
System requirements
The release notes call for a 68040 or PowerPC processor, around 750 KB of free RAM, roughly 600 KB of disk space, a color monitor capable of thousands of colors (16-bit), and System 7 or later with Sound Manager 3.0 or later.
Context
Keychain Cat sits alongside other Tamagotchi-inspired desktop pets that proliferated on the Mac in 1997, offering a software take on the keychain LCD toys that defined that year's playground culture.
Distribution
The program was distributed in BinHex form on Info-Mac and similar archives, with the author reachable at jimplan@aol.com per the original posting.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
