Running a virtualized Atari emulation on modern hardware with FujiNet used to require running the amazing Altirra Atari emulator. Which is only released as a windows app. Wine has worked for Linux and Mac users but it’s still a bunch of hoops to leap thru and it takes some cycles to run all those layers…
Rogul: An Interview with Wojciech Bociański
Hack and Slash across the Wilderness on Atari This following interview is complete and un-edited from the original provided by the talented Wojciech Bociański. Introduction Wojciech Bociański lives near Gliwice, Śląskie, Poland and has been programming Atari 8bit computers for many years. He has created many interesting games and applications that utilize the FujiNet. Bocianu…
Video Round Up
Some cool and interesting videos about Ataris, retro, and of course FujiNet! You get a FujiNet! 👈 You get a FujiNet! 👆 You get a FujiNet! 🫵 – The VintNerd A comprehensive look at all the supported platforms for FujiNet and sample apps on each of them. How Atari 8-Bit Computers Work! – The 8-Bit…
Altirra, ARM and Sequoia
Getting Altirra Running on macOS Sequoia 15.x A Wine Success Story I’ve been wrestling with running Altirra, the gold standard Atari 8-bit emulator, on recent macOS versions with wine for over a year now. The issue cropped up in both Sonoma (14.x) and Sequoia (15.x), where I kept hitting a frustrating green screen problem. The…
Listen to RAPID12
Too busy to read the RAPID 12? Now you can listen to a Deep Dive Podcast based on the content of RAPID 12. This AI generated podcast focuses on the Developer contributions to FujiNet. The Podcast was created by Google’s NotebookLM.
RAPID 12 – Extended Cut
This RAPID covers more time than some of the previous ones (September, October and the top of November)– so there is more info here in the extended cut that you’ll see in the broadsheet. Platforms * PR 780 – DISKII Writes (FozzTexx) * https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-firmware/pull/780 * Need fix in CONFIG to allow [W] option to be…
Election Night 2024 Results On FujiNet
You can again use your FujiNet (with Atari, ADAM, AppleII and COCO) to watch the election results in style for the US Election night 2024. Thomas Cherryhomes has done a deep dive and coded up clients for the supported platforms and Mozzwald has a scraper running to provide the data for tonight. TNFS images are…
FujiNet Weather App Ported
Take a Deep Dive into the a2tools / SURL project and how it contrasts with FujiNet as our virtual hosts cover Apple II code author Colin Leroy-Mira as he ports the Weather Application from FujiNet dependancies to his a2tools project using his SURL internet proxy… a2tools (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools) – is a fascinating project that lets your…
Bouncy World Server Available
I have started a persistent Bouncy World Server and made it available for people to join with the clients. Using it is easy- take an Atari or Apple connected with FujiNet and go to my TNFS server: fujinet.diller.org Enter that server and go into the bouncy directory. In there are the client apps to mount…
AI Powerd RAPID Podcasts
Google has introduced an astonishing new tool called NotebookLM which can take as input documents and generate a podcast style conversation between two virtual people based on the contents of that document. Hat-tip to Kay Savetz at Antic Podcast for the idea. I ran thru some of the latest RAPIDs and put them up on…