Re: Old "Abuse" game

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

On Feb 21, 10:48 am, "Polymorph" <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2:30 am, "BLuRry" <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> > Thanks!
> > -B
>
> 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.  :)
>
> 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