1979 Atari 800XL showing me the latest AI News via FujiNet - welcome to the FUTURE!
Okay, so as you saw in the previous article - the FujiNet device arrived, I plugged it in - I gave it a little whirl, I loaded a few things and pondered what to then do with it. Well, I then decided to do something with it. Inspired by the weather API lookup and display app, I wondered if I could get it to call out to a node-red API that I'd custom written and get the resulting data and output it to the screen on the Atari 800 XL. As this is version 0.1, I wasn't expecting miracles, not was I expecting it to be polished or pretty - I was just after pure function and I believe I achieved that. So....after scanning a few online videos on good old YouTube and watching many side distraction videos along the way, I found a nice chap who was knowledgeable in all things Atari BASIC - yes, you don't need to code in C (yet), so long as you load up the right APP first! I confess I did forget that as part of the start of the video and did waste about 15mins wondering what on earth I...