BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13
I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:
[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.
- The bot runs from the account [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro Bot :mastodon: (@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk) – mastodon.me.uk
- Until Elon blew up Twitter, it ran from [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro 🦉 Bot (@bbcmicrobot) | Twitter.
- Documentation is at [Wayback/Archive] BBCMicroBot/user guide.md at master · 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot.
The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).
It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:
- [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro 🦉 Bot on Twitter: “This via 6502 machine code embedded directly in a tweet.”
- [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro 🦉 Bot on Twitter: “BBC BASIC code tweet Author: @0xC0DE6502 🏆 &0302 Source: …”
- [Wayback/Archive] Owlet BBC BASIC Editor
REM Bubbles 0xC0DE Jan 2021
- [Wayback/Archive] Owlet BBC BASIC Editor
- [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro 🦉 Bot on Twitter: “BBC BASIC code tweet Author: @0xC0DE6502 🏆 &0302 Source: …”
- [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro 🦉 Bot on Twitter: “How to embed 6502 code in a tweet – OR bytes with 0x100 to avoid control code characters that can’t be displayed. The bot only reads the lower 8-bits of each Unicode code point”
- [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro 🦉 Bot on Twitter: “If you’re curious about the tricks of the bot check out …”
All old Tweets are still on-line, but for newer content you need to start at [Wayback/Archive] BBC Micro Bot :mastodon: (@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk) – mastodon.me.uk.
--jeroen
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