Having simple 8-bit fun with the Agon Light

I got the Agon Light 2 from the pi hut.

It’s a little hard to find the right keyboard, you need one that supports PS/2 over a USB connection, after some experiment I found this one from amazon works: JUSTOP Extra Value Wired Desktop PC Computer Keyboard Slim UK Layout USB / PS2 Connectors.

So far I’ve run the classic BASIC program we all used to type in shops back in the 80s:

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10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

And flashed the firmware using the instructions at https://github.com/breakintoprogram/agon-docs/wiki/Updating-Firmware.

For me it did work on a m1 mac, but I needed the note here:

If you are using an Apple Mac with an M chipset and are having difficulties uploading to the Agon, try changing the upload speed from 921600 to 115200 - some users have reported that works.

It’s all good simple retro fun.

I was always fond of the wn webserver. It seems mostly forgotten these days. I managed to find a copy of what I think is the last release on archive.org, it’s here: wn-2.4.7.tar.gz

This blog is super inactive, wondering about something fun to do with the domain…

Bonne année!

• https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
• https://danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-finally-showed-up/
• https://dynomight.substack.com/p/llms
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell

Loic Suberville

Il est très drôle.

Bonne video que j’ai trouvé sur youtube: Why French People Don’t Understand You

J’ai trouvé des chaînes youtubes interessantes:

• French mornings with Elisa
• innerFrench
• Les Jobastres
• Bonnie Voyage
• Alice Esmeralda
• Not Even French
• Olly Richards
• Paul Taylor (très drôle)
• Piece of French

Depuis des annees, j’essaie d’apprendre le Français. J’ai decidé de créer un nouveau blog en Francais pour pratiquer mon Francais.

C’est sur que je vais faire des erreurs, mais je essaierai d’ameliorer.

En ce moment, j’étudie premierement à lingoda cependant j’ai aussi étudié beaucoup des courses à L’Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni.