Moose Versions
Version 1.0 of the Talking Moose was released in 1986 by Steve Halls.
Version 2.0 was released in 1987, and ran on Macintosh systems 6.0.4 - 7.1. The Macintalk voice used for the Moose was 'Fred'.
Baseline Publishing eventually commercially published the talking moose, and released version 4, introducing new characters from a "Cartoon Carnival" supposedly run by the titular ungulate.
Uli Kusterer - the next author of the moose - got rid of the cartoon carnival, and worked more in the spirit of the original moose, releasing new versions starting at 1.0, which supported Mac OS 7.1 - 9.2. These were released initially on CompuServe, and later on the internet. He also developed the first OS X native version (v 3.0). The latest Macintosh version of the Moose (v3.5.7) works with all versions of OS X, 10.3 through 10.7, and includes Universal Binaries.
As of 2007, a Windows XP version of The Talking Moose by Aaron Lambert can be downloaded from here.
From January 8 2009, The Talking Moose has been posting periodic comments to a Twitter account.
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