Its primary purpose was to sit on the IRC Channel and report on everything that happens on the discussion forums.

(Actually, these features are implemented in BisqBot, not NesVideoAgent. Explained below.)

It also told us when new submissions have been made or new movies have been published.

On 2009-07-03 the bot in the IRC Channel was rewritten by Nach in C using standard UNIX sockets and pipes for the new server, and renamed to TAS Video Agent.

Now, the meaning of its life is to be the one to blame when something is done on the server-side, such as deleting 400 accounts of the forum users.

Initially, as a tertiary function, it worked as a gateway to BisqBot, allowing some utilities to be used at #nesvideos. These functions were not implemented in NesVideoAgent itself. NesVideoAgent was just a relay, which is why occassionally the answers were given through some other client (such as Bisqwit's own) instead of NesVideoAgent. However, at 20:12 UTC on July 17, 2007, this functionality moved to a user, simply called BisqBot.

• Calculators:
  • .cl ― Google-style calculator with units (implemented with GNU Units)
  • .cm ― Maxima style math utility; does polynomial solving and a lot more
  • .ce ― Obsolete engineering units calculator
• .google (Google search)
• .vk (currency converter)
• .seen, .geoip, .maa (user/country search)
• .dice, .predict, .pk, .geos, .kakasi, .japlookup, .explain, .rome, .luku, .milloin, .time, .maproute and more… (various toys not documented here)

The tools were developed by Bisqwit, although many of them use freely available programs/webservices as their backend – such as .cc which uses PARI/GP.

NesVideoAgent ran ircII, but this was not relevant, for the reason explained above.

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NesVideoAgent last edited by Nach on 2009-07-05 14:24:38
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