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kallebl0mquist published a ChatGPT Client for the Atari ST, so also modern and hip work environments can be migrated to the Atari platform.

Dumbing down with class, using this seductive keyboard
(Picture by kallebl0mquist)

From Github:

I have been building a GEM-based LLM chat client for the Atari ST in GFA BASIC 3.5E. What if an Atari ST could talk to a modern LLM? Not a fake retro skin in a browser, no emulator (though I love Hatari!), but my actual old Atari Mega STE. GFA BASIC was developed by Frank Ostrowski in 1986 and was hugely popular among ST users at the time. So I chose it in the hope that there might be still some resources out there. Did I learn GFA Basic properly for this project? No, but i dug out all the old docs and books and forced codex to learn it. Ha,ha. Poor thing.

The setup :

  • Atari Mega STE in high-res monochrome
  • GFA BASIC 3.5E on the Atari side
  • Raspberry Pi and python 3.12 on the other side
  • Nullmodem serial cable (StarTech 30cm USB Nullmodem Seriell Adapterkabel, USB-A auf RS232 DB9)

🔗 ChatST on Github

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