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Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot... by stfnkbck on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:31AM (#47421605)
Author here. Funny who you can run into on HN. Anyway, worthy project.

These images: https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet...

Plus this converter: https://github.com/KrisKennaway/ii-pix

...should get you closer. You'll still be missing a few files though, the full listing of the original disk contents (all the images, etc) is here: https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet...

And yeah, as durakot pointed out it's Beagle Basic.

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Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot... by ravi_nandan on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:01AM (#47425924)
Amazing - thank you for stopping by too. Super helpful. Will come back with anything else that I find too. Fun project.
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