I have officially begun integrating my own version of TRON in my VR world: a living program, self-aware of the system, able to modify it from within.
It took years getting to this point.
Getting CUA to play nice is still meh, but whatever.
Lightbikes TBA.
Math proves that being toxic to AI chatbots makes chatbots less toxic (assuming they have variable weight transformers and a static dataset).
Matrix failed me, got a Discord for my community and research now. Find the link in the welcome page update below, or in our VR world posted on the tree.
Looking for bot specialists to help build things up.
Debugging the controller issue (where your controller is seen, but doesn't work in selected games). Just to be sure, do you have Controller item checked in Interval Odyssey's menubar: File>Settings->Controller ? If it still doesn't work, what about Tetris' controller support? I'm considering the possibility that it may be iframe related and/or specific to certain browsers but wanted to confirm this diagnostic.
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If you want to see my work, you can find it on my site. If you work with that zine, I'm still thinking about what I would want to send in. I've got a lot going on and whatever I contribute would have to be meaningful, so I'd need to carve out the time.
On MS Agent: It's actually completely custom TypeScript built directly into the app! It manages state, sound, balloon styling, and event triggers natively rather than using VBS or MASH.
I did use MASH a lot as a reference when designing the behavior, though! Adding direct MASH script/file compatibility is on my backlog, but integrating it into the current service is quite a bit of work for a niche feature.
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win1999
2 weeks ago
Although I did download a lot of stuff off archive.org, maybe you have some stuff I dont have?
aznet
2 weeks ago
I have the full tool suite for making your own custom agents from scratch, including a compiler and decompiler. My email is lainerunner at gmail, just shoot me a ping if you want me to send everything. If not, all good. I personally think tying your msagents into even more stuff would be cool! Agentic ai is taking off and these guys were the first hermes agent. They bring back good digimon vibes.
win1999
2 weeks ago
Good to know! As for tying into Agentic workflow, it's possible someone could fork off this work in the future, but to keep in check with the design system and overall ethos of Windows 99, I'm trying to avoid being anachronistic when it comes to using out of universe elements like modern LLM artificial intelligence.
aznet
2 weeks ago
msAgent doesn't use LLMs for agentic AI though though, and you're literally already running it ;) AI is new? Must not know about the Ultra HAL AI from 1998 that works with Clippy lmao. Only Transformers is new. You never used an ELIZA model on dos? We've had Artificial Intelligence since 1867, with the automated mechanical Turk. You already added more novel features than msAgent had out of the box.
win1999
2 weeks ago
I think we may be misunderstanding each other here: I simply am trying to say I don't want to pipe the infrastructure into modern LLMs, which is what I thought you were suggesting. I am familiar with Eliza and Ultra HAL, but those are not LLMs, they are rule-based systems.
win1999
2 weeks ago
For reference, the current W99 MSAgent implementation is just event-driven scripting with static phrase arrays (ex. when you open Notepad, it picks a random line from a hardcoded list and says it). It's closer to the original Clippit/clippy than anything you'd call AI (event hooks and static response, no inference at all).
win1999
2 weeks ago
And I don't know why you're bringing up the Mechanical Turk, it was literally a man hiding in a box intending to trick an audience. Also that was in the 1700s, not 1867. I'm not sure where you got that date from.
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Haven't had time to test, I'll get back to you, sorry.