ELISA or other such program

[Scott Yelich]

In article <23098 at pbhya.PacBell.COM> seg at pbhya.PacBell.COM (S. E. Grove) writes:
>In article <4021 at tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> ericc at tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Eric Cook) writes:
>You can find a "BASIC" version of the program in the book "more Basic
>Computer Games" from Workman Publishing, New York. I can't vouch for
>how good it is, since I had to hand type it in, and have not found
>time to debug my typos. In other words what I typed works but not
>well. It would give you the right direction to go in, but you would
>have to translate the program into whatever language you wished to use.
>	Stephen Grove 


I just latched onto this group to grab the 2600 stuff.  I have since read
about the Eliza programs.... I did not know that it was part of GNU-EMACS
but that will be neat to play with.

I do know that there are MANY programs out that will 'talk' with you.  For
example, I have seen eliza for the apple and the atari  8bit.  I also have
that book 'More Basic Computer Games' and I think the word BASIC in the
title has a double meaning-- those only two good games in the book are
'hunt the wumpus' and 'eliza'  With that book you can translate eliza for
an machine that uses microsoft basic (ie:  you have have an array of strings-
a$(1) and a$(2) are different.... this is NOT how is was in  the old atari
basic-- but there is a simple 3 byte fix for this...)

Anyway, what you do next is get the simple speech program for your computer
(right now, mine is speech.tos for the ST) but there is also SAM for the 
apples and the atari 8bit.  You can modify the eliza program (change
2 lines) and then program will then REALLY talk back to you!!!

have fun!
ps:  Yes, I have both the basic eliza and the TRUE talking eliza versions for 
the atari 8bit.... No, I don't know where it is since I let someone borrow
all my 8bit disks and I have not received them back, yet!

   Scott D. Yelich                           scott at cs.odu.edu  [128.82.8.1]