So FujiNet for the Color Computer (COCO) is coming on strong. Not only has there been a FN device for the coco all year, it has the very first POC ‘bus’ FujiNet cart in the ecosystem. Applications are going hard as well with a fully working CONFIG, Lobby and Fujitzee multi-player-multi-platform game. Not having a…
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FujiNet-PC Build for OSX Download
Playing around recently with emulation on OSX I’ve had to build some up-to-date versions of FujiNet-PC for the Mac. Seeing as how Atari800MacX and Xroar (the coco emulator) both need FujiNet PC I realized I could at least zip up the Atari FN-PC for OSX and post it here. So download it here: Unzip, open…
Atari800MacX Hits Its Groove
[Updated with information about removing Apple quarantine on the app, added more history links to the project contributors section] Latest Release Paulo Garcia has released the latest version and build of Atari800MacX. This release fixes NetSIO (aka FujiNet) support and works properly with FujiNet-PC. FujiNet-PC is the software version of FujiNet Firmware for POSIX systems…
FujiLama is a new Multiplayer Game
FGS – The FujiNet Game System – got a new game server and client (Atari) today – FujiLlama. FujiLlama (FL) is based on the simple yet fun card game called Llama… rules are available to read here. The game server and Atari client were implemented by Simon (NZ SPY) in a mad dash of activity…
Apple Quick Hits
Some Apple2 fun on your Fujinet: Total Reprint Available prodos image on TNFS:http://fujinet.diller.org/APPLE/A2/NEW/ThePrintShopColorPRODOS_4am_v1.1.po Total Reprint is a port of The Print Shop Color (1986) to ProDOS. Some notable features: All Broderbund graphic libraries Additional openly licensed 3rd party graphics and fonts Unified UI for selecting 3rd party graphics and borders Hard drive installable, in any…
End of Summer Quick Hits
Some quick hits around the Internets. 6502 Cheatsheet Bocianu has a cool little 6502 Optcode Cheatsheet in various formats for viewing or printing. XE Repro Motherboard Piotr D. Kaczorowski has begun a project to do a XE motherboard repro. VBXE APODs Mopar Stephen is working a highspeed SIO VBXE APOD (asto pict of the day)…
FujiBoy
With the enhancement of the atari800 emulator to speak SIO to the FujiNet-PC (both can be build and run on Linux and Mac systems) all sorts of interesting possibilities come to the front. One of those is a portable Atari800, with FujiNet capability. The FujiBoy. The premium experience could be on something like a SteamDeck….
FujiNet and Atari800 Emulation
Running a virtualized Atari emulation on modern hardware with FujiNet used to require running the amazing Altirra Atari emulator. One issue however- Altirra is only released as a Windows app. Wine has worked for Linux and Mac users to run applications like Altirra on the best platforms but it’s still a bunch of hoops to…
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…