Want to enjoy the benefits of recent advances on the FujiNet firmware but don’t want to get to the level of checking out the repo from GitHub, learning the build system, doing a build and flashing your device? The official Firmware releases come out at a much slower pace, as they are tested across all…
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RAPID 8 – Extended Cut
RAPID 8 for June 2024 is here. So much going on it’s starting to get hard to condense it down into these single pages. See all the RAPIDS including 8 at: https://www.atariorbit.org/rapid/ Top hits: Platform M68k Data Sent over Macintosh Floppy COCO CocoFest was held May 4/5 and there was a good showing of CocoFujiNet…
Adrian’s Video: Atari vs Commodore disk drives: These are cool drives
Adrians Digital Basement (ADB) has an another Atari themed video, where he repairs and tests a number of 810 Disk drives. The FujiNet is featured and shows the versatility of using the FujiNet to help with disk functions on the Atari.
RAPID 7 – Extended Cut
Firmware and Festival Issue! This special issue covers the 1.3 firmware release and the Five Years of FujiNet exhibit, talks, classroom at VCF East at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall NJ. FujiNet Firmware 1.3 FujiNet GH release: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-firmware/releases FujiNet Flasher: https://fujinet.online/download/ What’s in the Update? All Platforms TCP Support in TNFS Ability to mount…
RAPID 6 – Extended Cut
More Notes and details coming for RAPID 6! * Zero Home Page Live Stream – 2600 Atari Five Card Stud * https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2111662160
FujiNet Virtual AppleII and Atari VM
There is an entire VM available for download, when run will provide an entire virtual Atari 8bit (via Altirra & wine) and AppleII (via AppleWin/Linux) that connects to the ‘virtual’ FujiNet (aka FujiNet-PC). It’s a simple download of an ova file that can be opened by virtualBox (still free from Oracle) and run on your…
YAIL Updates!
YAIL is out with some nice updates. Brad has been hacking on it seemingly non-stop and now YAIL will save two preferences- the streaming server and the gxf mode. Both are persisted using the AppKey feature of the Fujinet where specific keys can be saved on SD card for the app to read next boot…
Fun With Yet Another Image Loader (YAIL)
YAIL is a very fun project from Brad Colbert. His code is up on github here. It is composed of a server and Atari client component. The Atari client loads (I have the xex here on my TNFS server:TNFS://fujinet.diller.org/ATARI/NETWORKING/YAIL.XEX) and presents a black screen. You need to “set server” like: set server N:TCP://fujinet.online:5556 for the…
ANTIC 105
The greatest Atari podcast is out with episode 105: ANTIC Episode 105 – Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-105-secret-club-meeting-with-andy-diller It may be one of the best Antic podcasts this century, and I’m not just saying that (yes I am). Lots of fun stuff on this long episode full of Atari fun– I hope they…
Rapid 5 – Extended Cut
Rapid 5 is out and so here is the extended version, with images, links and more info that can fit onto the sheet. Platforms MacFuji Board and Bring up Chris Tersteeg has done the board layout, Ben Krein did the PCB order and build of the very first boards. They work and boot the classic…