[HN Gopher] A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's ch...
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       A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988
        
       Author : kosmavision
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2026-03-11 15:42 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (kubicki.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (kubicki.org)
        
       | slim wrote:
       | surprisingly technical and informative if you read through it
        
       | ablanton wrote:
       | I love Chris Markers work so much, this essay is mind blowing. I
       | had no idea he knew how to program or created a second life
        
       | jimmydoe wrote:
       | Chris Marker wrote code?! Mind blowing.
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       | God knows what would happen if he lives in this age.
        
       | mrwh wrote:
       | Good article!
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       | Am I right that chrismarker.org used to host the early, but it's
       | since lapsed?
        
       | applicative wrote:
       | It's strange the article quotes so much from it, but doesn't link
       | the BASIC source itself
        
         | kosmavision wrote:
         | It's squirreled away on Disquette 003 on the Poptronics
         | Dialector site:
         | https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet...
        
           | applicative wrote:
           | Haha, thanks. I am amusing myself trying to get claude to
           | figure out what I need to reproduce it, and how to use the
           | emulator at https://dialector.poptronics.fr/ partly to reveal
           | some of the elements outside the program, e.g. KAT OWL FACE
           | images
        
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