User:Tancre/2/hackpact/Clippy
Clippy (Clippit)
Historical Background
Microsoft Office
Office Assistant
Clippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhjNvSSuLM
Existing Projects
ClippyJS
Most famous project online with Clippy. It allows adding an Assistant to your web page.
Clippy prank
Project for windows. Every 60 seconds Clippy appears on your desktop to basically bother you with stupid phrases. No animations only text.
Clippy on iOS and macOS
ClippyVS
Clippy on Visual Studio. https://github.com/tanathos/ClippyVS
Unpacking the code
Methodology
Where to start?
> I wanted to work on the original code but I couldn't find it. Microsoft never published it.
> I tried to work on Clippy prank, which is based on Windows, but after using 7zip to extract the .exe I got stuck. The extracted files have strange extensions (ADATA, ASPAK, IDATA ...) or no extension at all. When I tried to open them I noticed the code is encoded and I've no idea how to work with it. (I searched a bit and it seems like I should get some .msi file from the .exe).
> The only accessible project I can work on is ClippyJS. It is the most famous project available online and can be interesting to play with it and make a website.
Furthermore, it is stored on Github allowing me to work on both sides of my hackpact
(How did they make it if the original code is not available?)
git clone https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js
Overview
For a general overview, I used the command tree to recursively list the directory.
File:Clippy overview.png
