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[Konnor88 ALT]

Hi, I have been on a hunt for older versions of Microsoft Agent and so far I have found 1.5, 1.7, and around 11 different builds of 2.0 so far. Does anyone here have any beta/unreleased versions of Microsoft Agent? I've been looking for MS Agent 1.0 and MS Agent Beta (also called AgentX if that helps). They were originally on MSDN discs and I think at one linked to the Microsoft website a very long time ago. If anyone has those versions of MS Agent on them or some other obscure beta such as MS Agent 1.3, I also would not mind a version of 1.5 that isn't build 232 since I have already found that one. it would be great if you could email it to me or post it here.

Thanks.

[Little Cat]

On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 8:26:55 PM UTC-3, Konnor88 ALT wrote:
> Hi, I have been on a hunt for older versions of Microsoft Agent and so far I have found 1.5, 1.7, and around 11 different builds of 2.0 so far. Does anyone here have any beta/unreleased versions of Microsoft Agent? I've been looking for MS Agent 1.0 and MS Agent Beta (also called AgentX if that helps). They were originally on MSDN discs and I think at one linked to the Microsoft website a very long time ago. If anyone has those versions of MS Agent on them or some other obscure beta such as MS Agent 1.3, I also would not mind a version of 1.5 that isn't build 232 since I have already found that one. it would be great if you could email it to me or post it here.
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> Thanks.

Hi. I may not be the type of person you are looking for; nor do I have anything relatively interesting to give you, but I never knew there are previous versions of MSAgent out in the wild (1.0 and "AgentX" especially), I'm interested. You mind sharing more info about the versions that you've found so far? Any differences or changes compared to the 2.0 versions?

Thanks in advance.

[Konnor88 ALT]

On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 2:08:39 AM UTC-4, Little Cat wrote:
> Hi. I may not be the type of person you are looking for; nor do I have anything relatively interesting to give you, but I never knew there are previous versions of MSAgent out in the wild (1.0 and "AgentX" especially), I'm interested. You mind sharing more info about the versions that you've found so far? Any differences or changes compared to the 2.0 versions?
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> Thanks in advance.

Hi, some of the versions I have found so far and actually have the files for are 1.5, 1.7, and a couple of builds of 2.0. 1.5 was the first public release of MS Agent back in 1997 and 1.7 was a beta version of MS Agent found inside of Windows 2000 Build 1701, however, it is extremely buggy and cannot run anything. As for the 2.0 builds I had, they contained mentions of a MS Agent 1.6 confirming that at point it existed as a beta just like 1.7. These earlier 2.0 builds were just like 1.7 in terms of bugs/glitches and it wasn't until the 2xxx builds that MS Agent started functioning properly. A MS Agent 1.3 also existed due to screenshots of it inside of a book documenting how to program with the MS Agent API.

As for 1.0 and AgentX, they are very different different in terms of how they worked. The documentation book for MS Agent 1.5 stated that the characters made for these beta versions would not be compatible with 1.5 and any other future release. This appears to make sense, since there is a file describing how to uninstall "Genie Beta 1" and the agent consisting of multiple files instead of just 1 ACS file. There was also a file that had the file names for several MS Agent components back then, one being AgentX.exe, which is how I was able to find out the actual name for the beta. Aside from this information, I haven't been able to find much else about them unfortunately.