Racter - The Amiga Tells You A Story
Racter Commodore Amiga 1986, Mindscape, Inrac Corp. Originally published March 10th, 2017 *My Video Review Of Racter *Next article *Previous article *Alphabetical list of writings While I mostly do my own thing with regards to what I review; once in awhile someone points something out to me that has me dropping whatever I’m up to and focusing on this new thing. Racter is a prime example of something I knew would come up quick on my to do list. It happens there’s quite an interesting story behind Racter. In 1983 the book The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed was released. In its introduction William Chamberlain claimed the following book in no way had human intervention; other than that very forward. That the book was entirely written by “Racter”; a computer program. The program was alleged to have run on a CP/M machine using compiled BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM. ^Words of wisdom from Racter I say alleged because this supposed CP/M version has ...