Gergory Nacu of C64OS created the below graphic to poke fun at the Apple M1 CPU marketing. Michael Doornbos, at IMA Penguin has taken this poke and spun it around to try and see what the 6502 can really do. He charts his work across a number of machines with interesting results. And an update…
This Week in FujiNet – Week 25
Here is the second TWIF – and it’s another interesting week for the AppleII and Spectrum platforms. If you missed the first one it’s here and following that process these are all my notes and impressions about what has gone on in the past week in the FujiNet Discord server. There are tons of interesting…
Programmer Pack released for NUC
Mytek has released a ROM image for the NUC he is called the “programmer’s pack.” The ROM image and announcement are on this AtariAge Post. Thanks to @Eyvind Bernhardsen for creating an 8K ROM version of SpeedScript 3.0, and @dmsc for creating an 8K ROM version of his FastBasic. Because of their efforts I have…
World of bocianu
bocianu is a prolific Atari coder in Poland. He has embraced the FujiNet and created some of, if not the most, famous apps that utilize the FN. bocianu is active on the FN discord and has a website (in Polish) at http://bocianu.atari.pl. All the apps reviewed below are written in Pascal, with some assembly thrown…
This Week in FujiNet – Week 24 of 2022
This Week in FujiNet – the first issue. There is so much going on with FujiNet these days I thought I’d take a moment and start to track some of the bigger developments I see for people that may not be on our Discord Server all the time! I am, and I love it and…
576NUC Cart
The NUC with a Cart is here! I have one. Playing cart games is now possible and makes the NUC a complete Atari system (with FujiNet of course). I’ll be updating my guide shortly with all the new info on the NUC+CART.
Virtual FujiNet
This is really about running a virtual FujiNet Device on x86 machine and connecting it up with Altirra Emulator for Atari. So you can run a totally virtualized FujiNet + Atari system in a modern computer. Techcowboy has details on his blog.
VS Code and Atari 8bit
VintageIsTheNewOld has a nice series on programming in ACTION! Part 4 goes into some good detail about setting up VSCode to compile right into a virtual drive you can use on Altirra. Check it out.
FujiNet BreakOut Boxes
To help facilitate FujiNet on new platforms, Mozzwald has created a new SIO break-out box. It will fit into any current FujiNet and allow each of the SIO pins to be used with testing and prototyping on new platforms. This was used for ADAM and now the AppleII bring-ups for FujiNet. The board are available…
FujiNet Boots Apple II
Another FujiNet milestone as a FujiNet booted a AppleII with smartport ROMS. Video of the boot here. And a reaction video too. And a few days later this was replicated by booting an Apple IIc+ with FujiNet. Both systems booted into Total Replay over the internet and loaded games. Apple II should be fully supported…