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	Kim	Lewis	Ghost: Zodiac Club Ghost
			Infinis | Home to the Zodiac Club ukagaka, a niche software Zodiac Club Ghost - release page   na   (coming soon?) Author: Infinis? Archive Update: (not yet done) Fake AI used: (yet unknown) Lewis surfaces used: 0,... Kim surfaces used: 10,...	-
		Drake	Ghost: Drake OS
			Drake OS Drake OS - release page   na Author: ? Archive Update: (not yet done) Fake AI used: (yet unknown) Drake surfaces used: 0,... surfaces used: 10	-

 

	Coding The scripts of a ghost can be saved in different ways. The Windows editor (Notepad) offers 2 options: ANSI (American National Standards Institute) and UTF-8. UTF-8: In the case of the japanese ghosts, only Emily and two or three other ghosts use this coding. For the others (ALL the others!) the scripts are saved in ANSI! Then UTF-8 is used by some chinese ghosts, well, those which run with yaya or satori.dll, ...and english ones, which are based on Zarla's template. In the English language, no special letters are used. So there is no reason for using UTF-8.   more: I have not even been able to install any of the ghosts of this coding provided on Materia! It is questionable whether this works with other basic programs for Mac, Linux and Android... Probably only works with SSP. Programming of SSP and yaya.dll has been done by PONAPALT for some time. And PONAPALT will certainly not reveal "business secrets" to any other programmer... (Neither would I.) Ghosts using yaya.dll: Zarla recommends for using her templates saving for every little change you do. Because the representation of the ghost does collapse with every small mistake, a typo is enough for this. Well, it's not because of using UTF-8, it's because of using yaya.dll - "The Princess and the Pea". The wannabe ghosts shown above probably failed because of their complexity. If you want too much at once - you may not get anything... ANSI: Means, scripts are saved in the charset your language specific Windows version uses. For westeuropean languages it's Latin-1, there are also Latin2-16 and a lot of others, for example "SHIFT_JIS" (japanese). All charsets include 256 signs and are built of 2 parts. 1st part is ASCII (128 signs). Used for all charsets! Following 128 signs are language specific letters. (However, Latin1-16 contain more letters than only from one language) Again, you don't need UTF-8 necessarily for writing in english...   niseshiori.dll and shiori.dll reserve , " ' as tags for choices - which this way cannot be used for random talk nor event lines too. I can't recommend this Shiori.   satori.dll uses a special way to call up surfaces. Only mojibake shown in scripts. Similar wayward/stubborn expressions used for chinese UTF-8 encoded ghosts.   misaka.dll works normal way. No reserved letters for choices, usual way to call up surfaces. Then representations of ghosts do not collapse with every small mistake. Seen in this way, misaka is to a certain extent bulletproof. Rather suitable as yaya for newbies/rookies and simpler ghosts...   Then is to say, you can't build a real AI with this software, only a faked one. Best thing is to make it as some kind of desktop decoration, a handsome character (male or female doesn't matter) with some interesting talk. Please don't expand it to some kind of bloatware...