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- Eliza v1.3
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- Eliza is a new GEM-based version of the old
- computer-psychatrist program Eliza. The original program
- was developed in the 70's and was an early example of
- artificial intelligence. American students believed that
- they were talking to a real human being! They answered
- every question correctly and so they felt understood by
- Eliza which only recognized a few words. Right now in the
- 90's you can talk to Eliza, too. And you can even feel more
- understood than the students!
-
- This version knows a lot more words than the old TOS version
- and is also more "intelligent". There are some special
- words or other events which cause a special reaction by
- Eliza. Try to find them all!!!
-
- Eliza runs on all Atari computers & clones with at least TOS
- 1.0. You can either run it as an Accessory or as a program.
- This program is resolution independent but some dialogs
- require 80 columns. There is special support for 16 and 256
- colours but there are no restrictions for monchrome users.
- GDOS, the clipboard and iconify are also supported.
- Since 1.3 the program uses colour icons. Older TOS versions
- won't display these icons so buy TOS 6 or N.AES!
-
- The font selector only works if you have installed an
- exterernal font selector that follows the xfsl standard
- (Calvino, Hugo).
-
- "Visit my homepage" requires a WWW browser and an internet
- connection.
-
- "Cut","Copy","Paste" - no joke, Eliza supports the
- clipboard! Although this is not a typical clipboard
- application I have included this feature to demonstrate
- that clipboard support is very easy with Face Value. If you
- click on "Cut" or "Copy" Eliza creates a file containing
- the text in the 'you' field. "Paste" copies the first text
- line of "Scrap.txt" in the 'you' field.
-
- New in v1.3:
- - Every browser works (Light of Adamas, CAB, WenSuite)
- - If the browser is not currently in memory it will be started
- - this is multitasking only and you have to set the env.
- strings
- - Colour icon resource file
- - Send an email to me. Currently supported are Marathon and
- ASH-Emailer.
- - You can also use other browsers and email programs by
- specifying the environment strings:
- BROWSER=<location of your browser>
- EMAIL=<location of your email program>
-
- Distribution on PD libraries is allowed. Manufacturers of CDs
- should drop me a mail before publishing this program...
- Any changes to the program are forbidden. The distribution
- shouldn't be changed - don't remove or add files!
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- Eliza is programmed with the new GEM application builder Face
- Value. Columbus Software distribute this program.
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- Other fine programs:
-
- HomePage Penguin - The easy way to create your own homepage.
- HTML-Help - Useful Internet utility.
- Tabi! - ASCII-to-HTML table converter.
- Alta Lista - Catalogues HTML pages, images and sound files.
- Enhanced Character Interpreter - gag program.
- Dr. Who Quiz - 256 colour quiz game with mod sound about the longest
- running Sci-Fi series of all times!
- Project X - the typical project X: top secret!
- ... and many more!
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- mjaap@hsw.ifl.uni-hamburg.de
- http://www.hh.schule.de/hhs/mjaap/programe.htm
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- Matthias Jaap, January 26, 1998
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