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Control: |
Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. |
Help: |
This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. |
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Other platforms:
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Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. Be patient :-)
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Game info: |
box cover
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Game title: |
Eliza |
Platform: |
MS-DOS |
Author (released): |
Joseph Weizenbaum (1988) |
Genre: |
Simulator |
Mode: |
Single-player |
Design: |
Joseph Weizenbaum |
Music: |
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Game manual: |
not available
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Download: |
Eliza.zip
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Game size: |
15 kB |
Recommended emulator: |
DOSBox |
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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Eliza was the first chatterbot to make a splash in popular culture, originally written and conceived by Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT in 1966 to mockingly ape the style of a person-centered (Rogerian) psychotherapist or counselor, largely by prompting the user to elaborate on topics sampled from previous user input. A typical session would take the form of a typed dialogue (sometimes with simulated typing errors to further the suspension of disbelief), with the computer asking the user a series of questions and being fed responses from which to generate further questions.
The game stimulated early consideration of computer artificial intelligence (or the appearance thereof), not infrequently passing the Turing test and fooling users into believing (for a little while, at least) that they were interacting with a real human being on the other end... blazing a trail subsequently followed down by Perry the Paranoid and Racter. Additionally, the nods its conversational interface made toward natural language processing (or, again, the appearance thereof) are considered to have been influential on the early mainframe development of the interface for text adventure games such as Adventure and Zork.
Considered as a game, it is nearly the polar opposite to Emily Short's Galatea -- instead of the player probing the computer with questions, the computer probes the player with them. Many different stories will still be revealed, but in this case, that's because it'll be people tricked by the program into telling them.
More details about this game can be found on
Wikipedia.org.
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For fans and collectors:
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Find this game on video server
YouTube.com
or
Vimeo.com.
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Buy original version of this game on
Amazon.com
or
eBay.com.
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Find digital download of this game on
GOG
or
Steam.
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Platform: |
This version of Eliza was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System),
which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was supplied
with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows and
its development was ceased in 2000. At the
time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue
and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found
here. |
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Available online emulators: |
5 different online emulators are available for Eliza. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For
maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic
features of each emulator available for this game Eliza are summarized in the following table:
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Emulator
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Technology
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Multiplayer
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Fullscreen
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Touchscreen
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Speed
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Archive.org
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JavaScript
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YES
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NO
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NO
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fast
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js-dos
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JavaScript
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YES
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YES
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NO
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fast
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js-dos 6.22
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JavaScript
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YES
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YES
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NO
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fast
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jsDosBox
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JavaScript
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YES
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NO
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NO
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slow
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jDosBox
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Java applet
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YES
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YES
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NO
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fast
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