Re: javier jimenez <jimenez@NETLINE.CL>: Tamagotchi
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Re: javier jimenez <jimenez@NETLINE.CL>: Tamagotchi
Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:06:37 -0500, 82nd Deer <eviljim@MEGSINET.NET>
> wrote:
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> >1) I don't think the tamagochi is impossible, but...
>
> Having a tamagochi for a calculator is naturally impossible unless
> someone makes a device that attaches to the link port and extends the
> capbilities of the thing quite a bit:
>
> 1. Accurate timing device. The TI-8x series have a condensator system
> which means you can never be completely sure, and there is no way to
> keep time when the thing is off.
>
> 2. something that can catch your attention. a vibration unit as used
> in mobile phones and pagers, or a simple sound device.
>
> 3. kilos of ROM.
>
> Artificial Intelligence is not all that hard in theory, it just takes
> a lot of space, or the writing of a radical new system that (usually)
> uses special hardware such as neuronetworks (That's a processor that
> doesn't work with 1's and 0's, but in 'yes, they sorta match' and
> 'naw, looks nothing like what I have here :-P.' I am sure the little
> tamogotchi thing has something special.. either loads of ROM, or
> special hardware.
>
> Sure, I could make a little sprite that 'does' stuff, but it won't be
> as intelligent and annoying as the actual tamagochi. I can make doom
> on the ti-8x, and yet it won't be anything like it (Wolfenstein is
> another questoin.. as Daedalus proves, a raytracer can be done on the
> ti-8x. (raycaster is different!).
Actually, I remember reading about how the Tamagotchi's really don't
have any artificial intelligence and instead rely on something like four
variables, namely weight, hunger, intelligence (I think), and age.
Something like that. Anyway, this guy went to great detail talking
about how the Tamagotchi isn't really that complicated. Now, a timer
would be required, but aside from that, the artificial intelligence
wouldn't be much of a hurdle...
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