User:Tancre/2/hackpact/Clippy

Clippy (Clippit)

Historical Background

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.

• https://www.smore.com/clippy-js
  
• https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js

Clippy prank

Project for windows. Every 60 seconds Clippy appears on your desktop to basically bother you with stupid phrases. No animations only text.

• http://rjlpranks.com/pranks/clippy/

Clippy on iOS and macOS

• iOS > https://github.com/hbang/WritingALetter
• macOS > https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy

ClippyVS

Clippy on Visual Studio. https://github.com/tanathos/ClippyVS

Unpacking the code

• 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.
  
• How did they make it if the original code is not available?