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Unofficial AIM Bot Gives Infocom Classics IM Twist

Posted by simoniker on from the lol-ruok-asl-etc? dept.

Fluidic Binary writes "Now instant messenging can waste our time in exciting 'new' ways, according to Wired News, who reveal that an improved unofficial AIM bot has been created to play Infocom games via AOL's messenging client. According to the article: 'The bot, designed by 26-year-old Web programmer Andy Baio, is a Perl script that acts as an intermediary between the games, which are hosted on his server, and AOL's network.'"

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  1. Nothing new. by But+Who's+Counting · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've seen this done on IRC years ago, actually. It's nicer on IRC than over IM, because you can get a whole channel participating in a group puzzle-solving activity.

  2. If you like this kind of thing... by s88 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    take a look at a project I admin and develop on over at sourceforge. Its called jaimbot. Its an AOL IM library and modular AIM bot for plugging in things like this to AIM. We have all sorts of modules (offline and group messenging, stock quotes, games, news, weather, tv info, movie times, ski conditions, etc, as well as an intertaining chatterbot by using MegaHal) and its very simple to add new ones. Follow the link for more details.

    Scott

  3. How about text-to-speech/speech-to-text? by CityZen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So I can play the game on the cellphone while I drive? :-)