Hi, I have been trying to adopt as a child the abandoned baby Answerpad for some years, but never had the time to complete the task.
I was browsing this forum and bumped into you guys on the Answerpad topic.
I have done some internal changes to the program, nothing yet affecting the external appearance of the original interface.
The changes are the following:
The File memory.dat is always generated (encrypted) from the source memory.txt. The reason for that was that David did not want people to sneak in a text file and read Answerpad's brain; but to talk and teach by a conversation.
The original project had the intention of 7 files.
1.(Options.cfg)
2.(Memory.txt)
3.(Memory.dat)
4.(General.FCT)
5.(Personal.FCT)
6.(WontSay.dat)
7.(MatchWords.dat)
Later David reduced them to 5, the files (WontSay.dat),(MatchWords.dat) were merged into the (memory.dat) file.
In this first attempt to change the code I have restored these files into seperate objects, as was the original project intention.
By doing so, I believe, it becomes easier to follow the changes.
The next change:
Now when you press (Don't say that) the program will not only write the phrase to the (WontSay.dat) but will also eliminate it from the memory.dat file.
The (memory.dat) file is no longer encrypted (for easy personality editing capabilities), therefore all editing can be done directly using notepad.
The (memory.txt) becomes obsolete, at maximum, a backup for the file (memory.dat) in case it becomes lost or corrupted.
If any of you guys would like to try this modified version send me your email request to phenixdos@yahoo.com and I will send you this modified version for free.
The (memory.dat) file has been included with 10 times more information, most of them imported from other bots brain.
Important
Please revise the text file (memory.dat) (with notepad) before running the program, because the other bots brain may have offensive data.
You can delete or insert the phrases that you desire to custom answerpad's response.
I hope that these changes can be useful for some users.
Any questions or sugestions feel free to send me an email.
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