Gary from OPA Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 (edited) 2 hours ago, GDMike said: Wait a second.. I hear ChatGPT is rearing to write that book. yeah, these days i bet the AI can do it faster than me, just tell it to google 'garyopa' and write a story based on the 14,400 search results out there. long time ago, back in the early '80s, i wonder if i still have it laying around someplace on cassette or old printout, i write a very simple (simple now, but back then complex) News-Generating-AI program for the TI99 in X/Basic, i filled it at the time with all the local and world events, and list of everything famous at the time, and it would randomly generated News Headlines in like stock ticker type printout along with weather and other tidbits on a screen that look very similar to a local community cable news channel, one of those just plain text with limited graphics layouts, no video, and then i hooked it up to powerful UHF transmitter in canada you could broadcast your own signal on any unused channel without a license as long as it was under a 1 mile radius, but i was of course living near the local CBC news station, they picked it up, and did a short community program about it, i wonder if its buried somewhere on old beta tape in the archives, anyway, long story short, it was very close at times in predicting real news events, coming up with random headlines that then happened! Edited June 17 by Gary from OPA 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 7 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: yeah, these days i bet the AI can do it faster than me, just tell it to google 'garyopa' and write a story based on the 14,400 search results out there. long time ago, back in the early '80s, i wonder if i still have it laying around someplace on cassette or old printout, i write a very simple (simple now, but back then complex) News-Generating-AI program for the TI99 in X/Basic, i filled it at the time with all the local and world events, and list of everything famous at the time, and it would randomly generated News Headlines in like stock ticker type printout along with weather and other tidbits on a screen that look very similar to a local community cable news channel, one of those just plain text with limited graphics layouts, no video, and then i hooked it up to powerful UHF transmitter in canada you could broadcast your own signal on any unused channel without a license as long as it was under a 1 mile radius, but i was of course living near the local CBC news station, they picked it up, and did a short community program about it, i wonder if its buried somewhere on old beta tape in the archives, anyway, long story short, it was very close at times in predicting real news events, coming up with random headlines that then happened! Maybe with tipi and Stewart browser you might be able to do a ti-gpt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 3 hours ago, GDMike said: Maybe with tipi and Stewart browser you might be able to do a ti-gpt. maybe -- one thing i want to try out once a secure my own place and move my things for storage into it. - i ordered a tipi and raspberry but never got even a chance to unbox it, its still waiting for me untouched in storage along with a few other cool new ti99 items. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 Just a quick update, I gotten setup a new twitter, so follow me on there if you are a TI99 on Twitter , and I also setup a small 'GoFundMe' for those willing to support me a bit to help secure a roof over my head, and I also setup a Patreon which once i am back on my feet, will be releasing various retro items on there on an ongoing basis, as i start to work on new projects. Almost a month of being a free man, its slow going, but things are coming together. Thanks everyone here for their kind words and welcome backs. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted July 2 Share Posted July 2 A good article was published recently about my life history on TorrentFreak, check it out: https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/ And I also setup a discord for my future retro projects, you all welcome to join it: --> https://discord.gg/ca8wgG3scz Thanks -=(Gary)=- 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Gary Bowser was recently featured on the Darknet Diaries podcast. Very interesting. Episode 136. Search for it, or try the following link... https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vZGFya25ldGRpYXJpZXM/episode/NWYwNmYyYTAtMTkzNS0xMWVlLWFhZTctNmZjMjMwNGQ5NmIx?ep=14 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted August 8 Author Share Posted August 8 Can an Admin change the Subject line to OPA Gary? The subject line was my reaction when the news first broke, and I don't believe appropriate now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 7 hours ago, Willsy said: Gary Bowser was recently featured on the Darknet Diaries podcast. Very interesting. Episode 136. Search for it, or try the following link... https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vZGFya25ldGRpYXJpZXM/episode/NWYwNmYyYTAtMTkzNS0xMWVlLWFhZTctNmZjMjMwNGQ5NmIx?ep=14 it is on youtube, you can watch it here: 5 hours ago, dhe said: Can an Admin change the Subject line to OPA Gary? The subject line was my reaction when the news first broke, and I don't believe appropriate now. love the new thread title. -- All tho I am still POOR, money wise, still trying to secure my own place, and get my life restarted, you can follow my recent progress on my Twitter and on my https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life and if you just bored and want to chit-chat, you can always find me hanging around my own discord server: https://discord.gg/ca8wgG3scz BTW for those that love my interview with darknet, I also recently did a short one with cybercrime radio, you can listen to it here: Enjoy, and hopefully once my gofundme reaches its final goal, its almost there, just a bit more to go, i going to secure my own place, buy a table, chair, desk, bed, and get back to doing some cool new things for TI99 and other retro computers. Stay tuned. -=(Gary)=- 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 Listening to the Darknet programme, boy did Gary get a raw deal. Nintendo, frankly, should be ashamed of themselves. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Dropping in, I been busy promoting my X (Twitter) account: https://x.com/bowser_garyopa as I try to built up things in my life, enough to hopefully rent a place, and get to doing some cool work, and I been going 3 times a week to physiotherapy to get my left leg treated, and the local Ontario Govt. here since I am on welfare as put me back to school on every Thursday to better my skills to get myself a job, ugh, 54 years old and dealing with a bunch of twenty-somethings and learning things in school I already know like python which I can code in my sleep. So that leaves me basically, only Tuesday and my weekends to relax. But, when I heard the news that Atari bought AtariAge, I thought I would come over here and make sure everything is still running ok as this is were basically all the 99'ers are, hopefully nothing will change. Anyway, here a shameless-plug for X (Twitter), since I am now a 'blue checkmark' account, I decided to startup a community on there for TI99 stuff, since there was none, check it out: https://twitter.com/i/communities/1699227713251197153 Nothing much there yet, but I will be slowly filling it up with content, and if you happen to have a X (Twitter) account, please join it, and share when you bored and not always logged on here. Thanks again, every for all your love & support, and I pray by November I should be finally back on my feet, its now been 3 months and 2 weeks since I became a freeman and back in Canada. -=(Gary)=- 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Retrospect Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Hi @Gary from OPA , I joined the X TI99 site. What do we do there? If it's sharing content , I've made a few games in my time. I could share videos, I'm not sure if X lets us upload files , as in game files? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 1 hour ago, Retrospect said: Hi @Gary from OPA , I joined the X TI99 site. What do we do there? If it's sharing content , I've made a few games in my time. I could share videos, I'm not sure if X lets us upload files , as in game files? Yes, you can share your videos, and a link to the game files. you can't upload them (at least not yet on X), and videos are limited in length as well, but you can link to youtube ones if they are longer. Anything TI99 related you can share. Looking forward to seeing you post your work. Thanks. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Retrospect Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 44 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: Anything TI99 related you can share Yeah i can certainly do that. I have things like work-in-progress, released games, and some that never came to be. I'd be more than happy to share videos and also I could probably link to threads on here for the released games. You now have a video of Avaris II, played very badly by me 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Getting there slowly. 4 months of freedom. got finally a desk and chair yesterday. now next step is to get my own place. and then finally unpack my ti99 and other retro systems. but at least now i can sit down and do some online work via my laptop. thanks everyone! 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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