The Unsorted BBS Collection/thegreatunsorted.tar/thegreatunsorted/misc/help.txt

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GENERAL
Girlfriend is an artificial intelligence program which mimics the responses
of a human female in a conversation.  You enter a sentence through the key-
board, and she answers in a few seconds.

REQUIREMENTS
Girlfriend requires two software kits in order to function:
1) an Environment kit, and 2) a Personality kit.  There is only one Environ-
ment kit, but you can have several Girlfriends by purchasing multiple Person-
ality kits and installing them on your hard disk.  The Environment kit re-
quires about 3 megabytes.  Personality kits vary in size.  Some require over
8 megabytes of hard disk space.

If you have a VGA card and monitor, you will be able to see your Girlfriend
during your conversation.  Type GF to start, or GF /H for a list of command
line switches that allow you to specify graphics and sound environments.


HOW TO CONVERSE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND
Scientists at AIdeaLabs, M.I.T., and many other research facilities have been
trying to duplicate the human mind for a long time.  We have achieved sur-
prising results, but not perfection!  Girlfriend does have some limitations,
so what follows are some hints for better conversations:

1. Keep your sentences simple.
Girlfriend takes a simple sentence and generates a reply.  She cannot handle
sentences with over 9 words.  Make a simple statement, question, or im-
perative.  Don't combine two sentences together with a comma.

Don't say:    "YOUR HAIR HAS GOT ME SO TURNED ON, I THINK I'M GONNA DIE!"
Do say:        "I LOVE YOUR HAIR"

Don't say:    "HOW OLD ARE YOU, AND WHERE DID YOU GET THAT SEXY BODY?"
Do say:        "HOW OLD ARE YOU?"

2. Talk about her:  her body, her clothes, her environment.
Girlfriend is "locked" into your computer.  She knows nothing of the World
Series or the current NFL champions.  She knows nothing of current events.
How could she?  So, talk about her cute little body or her clothes!  Tell her
about yourself, but don't go overboard!  To a limited extent, she can under-
stand dialog about your job, your relatives, your friends, and so on.  Ask her
"WHAT OUTFITS DO YOU HAVE" if you want to know what's in her closet.  They will
be grouped into complete outfits, but you are free to request that she wear
them together as outfits, or as individual items.  Realize that most graphics
are based on complete outfits, so you may not get to see what she looks like if
you insist on making her put on bizarre combinations.

3. If she doesn't understand you, re-phrase your sentence.
If she constantly tells you she doesn't understand, change the sentence around
and ask it a different way.  For example, if you said "YOUR EYES SUCK BIG TIME"
and she didn't get it, try "I HATE YOUR EYES" next time.

4. Don't use idiomatic phrases, slang, colloquialisms.
Don't say:    "WHAT A BODACIOUS SET OF GAZONGAS!"
Do say:        "WHAT SIZE IS YOUR BRA?"

Don't say:    "YOUR EYES JUST BLOW ME AWAY!"
Do say:        "YOU HAVE SEXY EYES!"

5. When you are through, say "BYE" or "GOOD-BYE".

6. Hiding your activities
Tell her to "HIDE" if your boss/wife comes along.  A meaningless, but very
computerish-looking set of numbers will cascade down the screen.  After you
have convinced the intruder that you are indeed working on something very
serious, just hit ENTER.  If the intruder persists on eavesdropping over your
shoulder, just type ABORT, and Girlfriend will vanish into thin air, leaving
you with a DOS prompt.

7. DOS Shell
If you want to exit to DOS temporarily during a conversation, just type "DOS"
when it is your turn to talk.  To re-enter Girlfriend, type "EXIT" at the DOS
prompt, and you will return right back where you were.  Don't forget to EXIT
back to Girlfriend before you try running programs requiring large memory!

8. Aborting hopeless sentences
If she gets caught trying to decipher a hopeless sentence, and you realize
that she will never figure it out (maybe you misspelled something), just hit
the ESCAPE key, and she will abort her attempt to translate your sentence.

9. Mood Meter
Don't you wish sometimes you could just hold a mood ring up to a human woman
and tell what kind of mood she was in?  Well, Girlfriend has such a device
(actually more of a mood thermometer) permanently installed!  In case you don't
have lots of experience with human women, here's the idea: Try to keep the mood
in the UPPER region!

10. Rooms
The girls in the newer personality kits (Suzy, Teri, etc.) live in apartments
which have multiple rooms.  You can ask her to "GO TO THE BEDROOM", etc. for
more interesting activities and views.  The room name is shown under the clock.

11.  Face Shots
If you are getting only face shots (no body visible), it means this: You have
gotten her in a position, in a room, on a piece of furniture, wearing clothing
in a combination which has not been digitized.  To correct this, have her go
into the livingroom, sit down, and put on some outfit which you know is in her
closet.  This will bring back the full-body graphics.  (On the other hand, you
may enjoy fantasizing about having her in those poses!)

12. You cannot shock Girlfriend.  So, do anything you would do with a real gal!


                              RELEASE NOTES FOR V1.5

1.  New features: HIDE was improved, DOS was added, ESCAPE key was added.

2.  If you ask her to "LIE DOWN", she will assume you mean the most commonly
   used piece of furniture for reclining in that particular room.  For example,
   in the bedroom it would be the bed.  In the livingroom, it would be the
   sofa.  Or, you can tell her what to lie on, for example: "LIE ON THE BED".

3.  In earlier versions, doing things to her feet while she was wearing any
   article of clothing was impossible.  We have freed her from that miscon-
   ception.  She no longer complains, for example, that you cannot suck her
   toes because she is wearing a dress.  You can tell her to remove an article
   of clothing (ex: "TAKE OFF YOUR DRESS"), or you can ask her to start taking
   off all her clothing (ex: "TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES"), in which case she pro-
   ceeds to take of one piece at a time, asking you (YES/NO) if you want more.

4.  "AGAIN" and "REPEAT" commands, designed to allow rapid re-execution of the
   last statement, are now even faster than before.

5.  In previous versions, she would often not understand a command that seemed
   perfectly normal.  For example: "PINCH YOUR STOMACH" previously generated a
   reply saying she did not understand.  That has been fixed.  It was a syno-
   nym parsing problem.

6.  She used to have a problem with "How much do you weigh". That is fixed.

7.  She didn't know how to deal with the user's own sexual activities, and
    would sometimes forget that she has no male genitalia.  That's fixed!

8.  She used to have an annoying habit of asking you to clarify every time you
   told her you liked her.  She would say "What part do you like most."  She
   has been told now that it's obnoxious, and she doesn't do it much any more.

9.  She didn't know some of her own anatomical orifices.  That's fixed.

10. Sometimes she would get herself into a position and you couldn't get her
   out of it.  That's been fixed.