https://bellard.org/textsynth/
Coming soon to a textboard near you!
I have decided to allow textsynth to create the first post posted in the textsynth thread. I understand that there may be some difficulties with this shot in the dark, but all should turn out well. I have a lot of faith in technology to espouse only the finest for our pleasureful delight.
I have not had time to test textsynth out yet, but I would be pleased to hear if people are having success. I would like to know if I can just run it and what not. My main concern is getting it working on my laptop. It's just a very old, very slow laptop that I am forced to use. I can't upgrade it or something like that because it's a laptop that only has 3 gig of memory. I would have to have another computer and hook it up to a TV and some video cards, which is a pain. With the new Windows 7 it seems a lot more complicated than it was in Windows 2000 and XP. I have never had much of a problem running it in XP and Windows 2000. When I first installed Win7, it would freeze every time I ran textsynth. I was a little worried about how many memory and graphics cards I would need, but I think this would be great.
I will try to check in here again today if people have an interest in the tool.
Also, if anyone has any ideas on how to do this in the Windows XP/Windows 2000 style or can provide me with some sort of resource to download for doing this in Windows 7, I would appreciate that too.
I have seen a few Windows 7 programs written with VB6 or C++. Perhaps that could be used to get started. The main problem with this is the software would not be very portable, but I don't really care since it's just for personal use. I just thought I would mention it, because the software I have done has used VB6 or C++.
On a side note, here is a screenshot of my Windows 7 machine. I guess I would be running it in a virtual machine with WInXP or Windows 2000.
P.S. I haven't tested it on Windows 7 yet, but I am pretty sure it will run fine.
P.P.S. I think someone has used it in a Windows Vista virtual machine, and a Windows 7 virtual machine. I would think it would work fine in Win7 as well.
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Just create a blank new form and set its size and color. Then drag as many "textsynth" components (objects) onto the form that you like the most, and it should work right away!
Coming soon to a textboard near you!
For those familiar with John McCarthy's work on Lisp, the textsynth tool is just what the name implies: it uses McCarthy's old text-synthesis program, and applies it to the output of the original Lisp interpreter. The textboard should use the output as-is; in other words, McCarthy's work will print out the source code for this new version of Lisp!
This project was brought to my attention by a reader (thanks Matt) and will hopefully be completed within the next month. I hope to have it released publicly before Christmas.
The textbox is a Lisp interpreter, the textbox, that is. It is a new implementation of the Lisp box: a Lisp-machine emulator that executes a Lisp interpreter written by John McCarthy, in which it runs a new text-to-speech tool (textsynth).
This is by no means complete: it doesn't support the LISP machine's native LISP 1.
You might call this a scifi story. Anybody need it in their life? You may use it if you like. I don't require payment. So don't be shy. Give it a shot. Thanks.
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A very early work, published in the late 1880s or early 1890s, by A.M. Van Amburgh was called The Demoniac, or the Living Man
The plot summary on Wikipedia reads:
After a series of inexplicable events, a group of men, including a professor and a reporter, investigate an abandoned mansion that was once home to a mysterious cult known as the "The Cult of Aton." They discover an ancient manuscript, written by a professor in Paris in 1780, describing the last rites of a group called the "Guild of the Living God", which led to the creation of a mysterious device known as the "Stone of the Ages" that has an extraordinary power to summon ghosts. The discovery of the manuscript is followed by strange events, including a series of hauntings, a large explosion, and the apparent appearance of the ghost of a man who was allegedly killed in the explosion. During these events, one of the survivors of the explosion is injured and finds himself locked in the titular house.
The story has been republished a few times since, and is part of the Library of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, the first series of volumes of pulp fiction.
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I do not think this is what you are asking about, but I thought I would point out that A.M. Van Amburgh (1839-1924) wrote a book called The Demoniac or The Living Man and it is mentioned on Wikipedia that this was an early "supernatural" story. I did not find any mention of the word "haunt" in the entire book, although I only skimmed the thing. It does mention "haunted houses".
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I think you might be thinking of the book The Haunted House by Edgar Allan Poe.