That last email got me thinging back to my first exposure to microprocessors and computers. We had the first home video game pong: two paddles and a ball. It was like magic back then. The first Java program I wrote was pong: 67 lines of code! Then there was Z80, there are two tyes of games that I want to ressurect with alternative interfaces, these are ones I played for hours and hours when I was twelve. The first one is eliza, we spoke about that here last year, and people showed me some sources for code. This is the talking psychologist, based on an early experiemt with AI. It would be fun to make that a voice based app. The other was text based adventure games by scott adams (not of dilbert fame). The pirate adventure, vampire adventure, etc. No graphics were needed to tweak the imagination of a twelve year old, and it was a puzzle, one that took a lot of trying to solve. I was just thinking, there are TRS-80 emulators for linux, and my brother sill has all of that old TRS-80 software. It would be pretty cool to interface that TRS-80 emulator with ViaVoice and do both synthesis and recognition of those old text based games. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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