[1] It is the first animated talking agent on a personal computer and featured a moose that would appear at periodic intervals with some joke or witticism.
The Talking Moose used Apple's Macintalk software, the first version of which famously made the original "Never trust a computer you can't lift" speech at the Macintosh launch in 1984.
[2] This commercial release of the Talking Moose included color graphics and additional software that allowed users to create and edit phrases to be spoken.
[3] A stripped-down version of the Baseline release of the Talking Moose was distributed with the Bob LeVitus book Stupid Mac Tricks in 1989.
A Canadian developer, John Penner has written a new M1 Moose in Swift for macOS Ventura and Apple Silicon.