The inspiration for MagikFortune
came from an old program known simply as “Fortune”.
Fortune would deliver a witty or interesting comment to the user
whenever they logged in.
Back then, the world of computing was drab
and colorless with text only interfaces, and an amusing fortune would
brighten your day! Of course this is still the case today, but while
the world has moved on from text based computing to a graphics rich
desktop, the poor old “Fortune” program has not ... until
now!
Finally with the introduction of
MagikFortune you can now again enjoy the thrill of receiving your
fortune, but this time fully integrated in with a modern graphical
operating system. No longer does your fortune appear as plain text
on a plain screen, but it is delivered in speech by a fully animated
3D character that moves, speaks and generally amuses.
Although developed completely
independently, MagikFortune is even backwardly compatible with the
old fortunes of the original Fortune application. Indeed many of the
fortunes distributed with MagikFortune are from these original
archives.
MagikFortune is extremely easy to
use. We recommend when you install to configure MagikFortune to run
on startup, that way a fortune is just a click away. MagikFortune
can be configured to deliver fortunes on demand, at regular
intervals, or whenever you log in. The rest of the time your
character will simply amuse themselves and not disturb you. If you'd
rather not even see your character they will happily disappear and
hide in the system tray on the bottom right of your screen, out of
sight but hopefully not out of mind.
