Thank you Katlyn, PaleRider for the kind words of encouragement and Gamer-Thorn for the technical support in being the hub to host this project.
Believe it or not, this has been a first time experience in posting anything on any forum in my life, but undoubtfully, I can now better understand the initial concern that Gamer-Thorn had in checking if this was not a spam to protect the group.
In the short time that I have been trying to revive this project, I felt like you guys and other users (USA, England, and Australia) that emailed me were already friends.
In the adoption process of this baby, I sometimes wondered, while I analyzed the program code, what kind of tea David (I?) was under the influence.
Because it seemed that he had many great ideas to implement, (many of them were pioneers, not even being used on pc-bots at that time) but had not taken the time to execute them fully.
In no way I am bad mouthing David (myself?) for his work, on the contrary, I find it already amazing that a program that started in June 1999 and ended support somewhere around 2001, still is mentioned on many AI forums till this date.
Although this experience was on a short period of time, it has been very fruitful to share with other people which have the same interest for this fascinating world of AI, where we put our beliefs in suspense and try to journey into a world where parts of our minds meld with each other, creating an abstraction of thoughts and interpretations of personalities and entities.
Well...you see? I am almost starting to sound like Answerpad (or he to me)[
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By the way I already started working on Katlyn's suggestion and I agree completely that the line in between eases the eyes and makes a big difference.
I have not yet received much feedback (good or bad) from the other users, but I believe that they were happy with this small revival of our old friend Answerpad.
Send me or post your thoughts.
For many years I really wished that one day I could rewrite this code from scratch, changing the database structure, adding new dictionary bridges to link the data, just for the fun of it. But at this moment I have some personal issues to address... like getting a job. (Former Company I worked closed in Dec2006)
But I will try to come out of my tree hole sometimes and check your postings to see if you guys had any new requests or suggestions.
By the way, as you remember... that was the way it all started.[
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PS: Game-Thorn, on your web the version reads 2.1 and 2.2 instead of 2.01 and 2.02. If we ever get to version 2.10 or 2.20 it might conflict. [
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Thank you all
*Engage*
