Parrot-lovers
hall of fame
Mr. Robert
Bayles manages the #Ronolog support channel on the Undernet IRC
network.
The
original version of Ronolog used the popular Microsoft Agent
character ("avatar") Peedy. Many people helped Peedy
when his feathers were wet and he was just being trained to
understand Internet Relay Chat. His original very special friends
around the world include (alphabetically):
- Leslie
Lee Elms
- Wendy
Goode
- Dodi
Borsay Horowitz
- Noel
Lawrence
- Tracee
Smith
Peedy and
other talking characters can be used with the current version of
Ronolog. However, Ronolog now bundles a kennel of 10 dogs who
take Peedy's place. They were housebroken with the help of:
- Robert
Bayles
- Dave
Csercsics
- Walter
Horowitz
The blind
do not enjoy access to inexpensive software like the sighted do.
Leslie Lee Elms should be credited with persevering in spite of
this and making someone who could help a little more aware of it.
Thanks of
course to Khaled Mardam-Bey, author of mIRC, not only for making
such a useful IRC chat client available, but also for building it
in a way which permits its extension by tools like Ronolog.
Finally,
kudos to the Agent technology crew at Microsoft which hatched
Peedy and thereby made a wonderful text-to-speech engine from
Lernout & Hauspie available to the world at no cost - in an
engaging personality as well!
We also
thank Mardovar Kennels for generously
granting Digi Tel Vision a token-fee license to use the likeness
of "GoFurr" to create the Agent characters bundled with
the current version of Ronolog.
Hephaestus Project Home Page