A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988

6 comments

• jimmydoe 1 day ago
  Chris Marker wrote code?! Mind blowing.

  God knows what would happen if he lives in this age.
• applicative 21 hours ago
  It's strange the article quotes so much from it, but doesn't link the BASIC source itself
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  • kosmavision 20 hours ago
    It's squirreled away on Disquette 003 on the Poptronics Dialector site: https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet...
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    • applicative 19 hours ago
      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
  • kmoser 12 hours ago
    It does:

    > At the risk of getting a bit esoteric, I want to spend a moment with the actual source code to Dialector [...]
• ablanton 1 day ago
  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
• mrwh 1 day ago
  Good article!

  Am I right that chrismarker.org used to host the early, but it's since lapsed?
• slim 1 day ago
  surprisingly technical and informative if you read through it