Idle Merlin

Not every program has to have a purpose, and here's one that does absolutely nothing... not one useful thing. It was written to add a little entertainment to one of my network status display consoles at work, and several people have said they liked it so here it is. The program uses Microsoft Agent technology to create an animated wizard character named Merlin who wanders around the screen performing random actions. There is a configuration screen that can be used to control what parts of the screen Merlin will occupy, disable sound effects, and hide Merlin should you need to do real work.

Downloading and Installing

In addition to the program you may need to put msvbvm60.dll in your Windows system32 directory (which is probably c:\windows\system32\).

Source code is also avalible, just remember where it came from. :-)

• IdleMerlin v1.0 - for Win32 systems
• msvbvm60 - Visual Basic v6.0 runtime DLL
• Source Code - in a Visual Basic 6.0 project
• Microsoft Agent Home Page

Legal Mumbo-Jumbo

Feel free to download and use this software as you wish. This software has been tested, but I am not responsible for anything that occurs to your computer.

Use at your own risk, yada, yada, yada.

Last Updated: 12/28/2004 - Anthony Anderberg - ant@anderbergfamily.net