Re: Old "Abuse" game

["Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Feb 22, 8:53 am, "Polymorph" <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 10:48 am, "Polymorph" <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 21, 2:30 am, "BLuRry" <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > There was a funny, on-the-dark-side-of-madlibs type game I played on
> > > my // as a kid called "Abuse" which was basically a random insult
> > > generator, capable of piecing together beauties such as "May the fleas
> > > of a thousand camels infest your armpits" and so on.  Has anyone by
> > > chance dug up a copy of that game?  Can't find it on Asimov.
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> > > Thanks!
> > > -B
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> > I believe that SAM (the Software Automated Mouth speech synthesizer)
> > had a demo of its capabilities by doing exactly as you describe. You
> > might consider checking it out. I have a copy of the SAM software at
> > home I believe if you cannot locate it. I remember it being rather
> > amusing hearing my old //e casting insults at me.  :)
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> > cheers,
> > -p
>
> I dug out my SAM disk and it does indeed have what you described.
> However, it may be something that I did way back in the 80's because
> none of the SAM disk images floating around seem to have the
> "insulter" demo that mine does. There are other demo's on my SAM disk
> that obviously I made up, so it may well be that I modified the
> original insulter program (possibly typed in from Nibble magazine??)
> to work with SAM - it was that long ago I don't remember. I'll try and
> get a disk image and post back when I do.
>
> cheers,
> -p

It seems you were after something totally different to what I have,
but you (or someone else) may still be interested in seeing/hearing
the SAM "insulter" demo, so I have uploaded it to the CSA2 Google
Group (http://groups.google.com/group/CSA2). The image is zipped in
the SAM.zip archive.

Again, there are some things on this image that I did when I was a kid
- so don't be too harsh on me.  ;-)

cheers,
-p