And he’s followed an existing form factor, though it’s not one from the Atari world.
TURBO TIME ATARI UPGRADE
has taken a different tack with his Atari 800 build, he’s produced an Atari clone designed to take the most popular upgrade boards produced by the 8-bit Atari community, as daughter boards. Often these have taken the form of small boards, or boards that are designed to follow the form factor of the original machine, and fit in an original case. Posted in Retrocomputing Tagged apple II, assembly, atari, atari 800, basic, Computing, emulator, pilot, raspberry pi, retro, turbo-basic xl, tweet, twitterĪs a community has grown up around the 8-bit microcomputers of the 1980s, there have been some beautifully crafted rebuilds of classic machines to take advantage of newer hardware or to interface to peripherals such as keyboards or displays that were unavailable at the time. While building your own retro system or emulating one on other hardware is a great exercise, it’s also great that there are tools like these that allow manipulation of retro computers without having to do any of the dirty work ourselves. There’s also an Apple II BASIC bot for all the Apple fans out there that responds to programs written in AppleSoft BASIC. ’s work isn’t limited to just Ataris, though.
TURBO TIME ATARI CODE
The Pi runs a python script that polls Twitter every two minutes and then hands the code off to the emulator. The bot itself runs on a Raspberry Pi with the Atari 800 emulator, rather than original hardware, presumably because it’s much simpler to get a working network connection on a Pi than on a computer from the 80s. The bot was built by and accepts programs in five programming languages: Atari BASIC, Turbo-Basic XL, Atari Logo, Atari PILOT, and Atari Assembler/Editor, which was a low-level assembly-type language available on these machines. Just tweet your program to the bot, and it outputs the result. Luckily, there is a Twitter bot out there that can let you experience an old 8-bit Atari without even needing to spin up an emulator. That can take a long time and a lot of energy, though. Building a retro computer, or even restoring one, is a great way to understand a lot of the fundamentals of computing.
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