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The AI ported the programs I wrote at 11 so they run on my Psion again

He got a Psion Series 5 and a USB to RS232 adapter working and saw the OPL programs he wrote as an 11 year old run again. He had the AI port some of the OPL code that had changed between the Series 3a and the Series 5.

How it works

  1. Buys a Series 5 and connects it to his Mac with a USB to RS232 adapter
  2. Runs his old OPL programs from when he was 11
  3. Has the AI port the parts that changed between the Series 3a and Series 5

Why it’s worth knowing

Code he wrote at 11 years old is running again on new old hardware because the AI could translate between two versions of a dead platform’s language.

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Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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