Category : Miscellaneous Language Source Code
Archive : TIPI.ZIP
Filename : TABLOID.TPI
Output of file : TABLOID.TPI contained in archive : TIPI.ZIP
# by Kent Peterson
# This is a silly little program
# that generates tabloid-style headlines
deftable subjects
"Elvis" "Bigfoot" "Princess Di"
"98 Year-old Grandmother"
"Space Alien" "Madonna" "Michael Jackson"
"Bat-Child" "Loch Ness Monster"
endtable
define subject
9 random subjects
print$ cr
enddef
define verb
7 random
case 1 of "gives birth to" endof
2 of "found living with" endof
3 of "is actually" endof
4 of "to marry" endof
5 of "declares love for" endof
6 of "found in love nest with"
endof
7 of "reveals the hidden truth about"
endof
endcase
print$ cr
enddef
randomize
subject verb subject
begin
key
until
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/