EightBall is a dockling that allows you to have the well-know magic Eightball right in your Mac OS X Dock! Just ask a question out loud and press the EightBall to get a viable answer... Don't complain and sue me if the result is not what you expected ;-) Remember it's always possible to escape your "fate"

The latest release is version 1.3. This is probably the last public release unless I find something new and fun to add or unless there are new translations.

You need Mac OS X 10.0.0 or later. Note that Mac OS 9 is in no way supported!

You need any Macintosh supported by Mac OS X. In other terms, you need a G3 or a G4!

No, EightBall is freeware. The code remains property of the author. You can distribute it but you DO need to include the Read Me file.

Drag the EightBall.dock file found in the disc image and drag it inside your hard disk's Applications/Dock Extras folder then double-click on it to install it in the dock.

Just drag the EightBall icon out of the dock and throw the EightBall.dock file located in Applications/Dock Extras to the trash.

EightBall currently supports the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. If you see one language missing and you feel ready to write a translation for it, e-mail me at eightball@inferiis.com with your request.

This a message warning you that the EightBall dockling may not function properly with your version of Mac OS X. This was done because Apple has not yet published the APIs for dockling creation so EightBall relies on undocumented and potentially evolving calls. This may lead EightBall to break in a future version of Mac OS X hence the warning. It should be safe to ignore it if EightBall works. If it doesn't, there should already be an updated version available on my website fixing the problem :-)

Last time I counted them, there were 36 unique answers... now perhaps that's not enough for you? If that's the case e-mail me at eightball@inferiis.com and tell me about it!

EightBall uses a unique, very powerful and patented heuristic & fuzzy logic algorithm that uses your Macintosh built-in sensors such as microphones to perform voice recognition functions and analysis to perfectly foretell the answer to a question.

42.

Because of a bug...errr..a feature!

Yes! It's available for download on the EightBall page. Note that I don't provide any warranty nor support concerning this source code. Use it at your own risk. I hope you'll find it helpful.