For those that know me, they know I love my old retro Acorn Computers from the 80s and 90s. While sat on my sofa one night doom scrolling through Instagram I spotted some guy using a Commodore 64 and accessing ChatGPT (think old skool BBS style inputs). This got me thinking, how hard could this be to do with the BBC Master? Well it turns out its super simple… Where to start First off, you need a good old fashioned Econet network with a modern PiEconetBridge providing the gateway capabilities to the outside world (aka the internet). The PiEconetBridge is a Raspberry Pi-based bridge that connects classic Acorn Econet networks to modern TCP/IP networks. Details on the PiBridge can be found here: Chris Royal Github project and you can read all about what it does in this article: Hackster.io article Once you have all that, which most people who are still […]
