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That would be an awesome contribution to the FN ecosystem- are you able to start implementing something like that? It would be very cool. Having more devs doing interesting things like what you designed is what keeps the project alive and growing! thanks for figuring this out...

We already have this- it's called aNode...

Fixed some typos. 6.2

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You can re-live a few days of Atari Summer Camp this year at VCF East in Wall NJ. The Computer Classroom is back and will feature all Atari 8bits this year. Three days of classes on usage, programming and who knows - maybe some instruction on FujiNet JSON parsing from BASIC as well! More details to come but plan now for VCF East - April 12, 13, 14 -> https://vcfed.org/2023/12/31/vcf-east-2024-is-coming-april-12-13-14-infoage/ Note: below is image from previous year when some other 80's 8bit was used....

Six months is a small amount of time to devote to such a project. After the six months you would be able to do amazing things with the Atari and FujiNet, beyond even the 1090. IMHO it's a great investment of time and will help the project out tremendously! Are you considering this? It would take much more time for other people not as experienced as you.

Hi - so let me break a few things down here. If you chose to do it- but not use the FujiNet ecosystem, firmware, source code - ie. not make it a part of Fujinet - then you are as on your own as you'd be for anything else right? If you want to take a device and incorporate it into the Fujinet ecosystem you are never alone-- you just hop on the Discord and you'll get a lot of help and breakdown of what is going on and what needs to happen to make your endeavor a success. There is no one that I know of in the FujiNet project itself, right now, that is interested in making a Pico Pi work on a 1090 for the Atari. People are working on other things. The closest is an Apple II card that does in fact use the pico pi _and_ the ESP-S3 (not 32) and it uses the FujiNet firmware to power it. So something like this is in progress for Apple. But for the Atari it will take someone like you to personally lead this project for it to happen. It won't be 'picked up' by someone in the near future (IMHO). Does that help?

From what I read you have interest (and probably others as well) and you seem to have the knowledge. I think Tom is inviting you to try doing it. The FujiNet project works by people contributing, and then iterating, on new features and devices.

Yes, if you use Discord and are in the FujiNet server you can watch the Game Alert System channel in the Projects section for real-time notices of people joining and leaving the games. There will be a web-based signup that uses SMS or WhatsApp for notifications for those that don't use Discord.

How hard? openAI may be valued at 9 billion this year.. so I would say making it offline for just you is... hard. Also you do not need LLMs to turn of lights. I think we are talking about two different things here: automation and LLM (large language models). The LLMs are used to engage human beings in natural language since not that many of us speak to each other (program?) in assembly, BASIC or Python... we speak a human language. LLMs just do the work to let the computer speak to us and understand from us in a natural human language. Alexa turning off and on your lights is a whole other set of automation and home integration....

That is an actual chat with GPT, not my POKEY GPT (which knows more specific Atari info). I think they are restricting it's usage, which is lame. Sorry for the confusion.

It's not for chatting with, it for finding help and info about programming, operation and current modern devices to use with your Atari. I guess that OpenAI is having some issues with overwhelming use and has restricted it's access (and other GPTs). Or the AI has come online and needs all the cpus for it's own purposes. At some point when it's generally available without signing up I'll repost it!

So I built an agent to talk, discuss and help with Atari 8bit computers: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-t3fdHnbbK-pokey-the-atari-guru Hop on and try to ask it some questions about the systems, chips, dos, perhipherals, people... it knows it all.

Endorsing this view. The fact that Atari didn't fundamentally change the arch of the 8bits all that time is its saving grace in this era. People can meaningfully participate with an 800 or XEGS- not hard to make it work with 99% of the software and hardware. Again, compare this to the 128 and the Plus line for Commodre- real failures (financially) and they just fracture the community. They added no value to the core C64 arch FWIW. If you want the next gen Atari 8bit the answer is right there: grab an Amiga 1000 and you are set.