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Yes, Clippy from Microsoft Office is back — on macOS!


Clippy can be moved around (drag with mouse) and be animated (right-click).

The SpriteKit-Framework is used to animate through Clippy's sprite map.


First start

  1. Download Clippy for macOS or build from source.
  2. Run
  3. Click 📎Show in Finder in the menu bar
  4. Unzip all files
  5. Click 📎Reload
  6. Pick an Agent under 📎Agents

Todos

Demo

Demo

Build

git clone https://github.com/Cosmo/Clippy.git

Add other Agents (optional)

An *.acs file includes all required resources (bitmaps, sounds, definitions, etc.) of an agent. Unfortunately, this project does not support *.acs files, yet. But hopefully in the future — pull-requests are welcome.

Until then, you can convert *.acs files with the "MSAgent Decompiler" by Lebeau Software. This software extracts all resources that we need, from an *.acs. There are a few steps involved.

Requirements

brew install imagemagick

Will be used to merge single *.bmp sprites into a single 32 bit PNG-file.

brew install ffmpeg

Will be used to convert *.wav-files in RIFF format to MP3 files.

Conversion

Included in this project is a converter called agent-converter.sh. This tool takes opaque BMP sprites, removes background colors, puts them together to one big transparent PNG file and converts all sounds to MP3.

./agent-convert.sh PATH_TO_AGENT NEW_NAME

AGENT_PATH path to decompiled agent directory. NEW_NAME should only include lowercase letters.

Example

./agent-convert agents/CLIPPIT clippy

Final step

After the conversion step, you will get a new folder called NEW_NAME.agent.

  1. Click 📎Show in Finder in the menu bar.
  2. Move it to the Agents directory.
  3. Click 📎Reload
  4. Select new Agent under 📎Agents

Attributions

Inspiration was taken from:

Graphics were created by Microsoft.

Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography

Watch the Unauthorized Biography with Steven Sinofsky, if you're interested in Clippy's history!

Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography

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