savetz / pcbasicbot

The code that runs the PC BASIC bot at https://twitter.com/PCBASICBot

PCBASICBot

The code that runs the PC BASIC bot at https://twitter.com/PCBASICBot

I'm sharing this so people can use this as a stepping stone to making their own, different bots.

Documentation for using the bot is at https://pcbasicbot.com

The main twitter posting code is based on what I learned from "The Reply to Mentions Bot" at https://realpython.com/twitter-bot-python-tweepy/#the-config-module

Dependencies:

• A Twitter account, and API keys for it https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api
• Tweepy. Specifically the fork that allows video uploads. tweepy/tweepy#1414 They plan on folding that feature into the main program but as of this writing, haven't.
• DOSBox: https://www.dosbox.com
• PC BASIC emulator: https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
• ffmpeg, for processing video files: https://ffmpeg.org
• and in the assets/ directory: QBASIC 1.1, named QBASIC.EXE. This is not provided in this repository due to copyright.
• An X Virtual Frame Buffer running on display 97 (/usr/bin/Xvfb :97 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x24)

pcbasicbot's Issues

Migrate to Mastodon

I am aware of how Elon blew up Twitter, so I totally agree the bot there stopped.

A long term feature request (in the sense "in case anyone ever sends a pull request or you find time to investigate how this can be done") is to migrate this bot to Mastodon.

Since this bot was inspired by the BBC Micro one which already has migrated to Mastodon here is a link to its repository: https://github.com/8bitkick/BBCMicroBot