The Atari 400 may be the most iconic of the original Atari 8bit design aesthetic and strong call-out to its 1970s origins and vibe. I recall playing with one as a young kid at a neighbors house and never understanding why the keys were all flat. But it played some great games. The 400 looks…
Category: Atari
Build Your Own – atari800
The atari800 repo has been updated with an enhancement from Mozzwald to set the NetSIO port that the emulation will use when connecting to Fujinet-PC. Why is this interesting? You can run multiple instances of atari800 with multiple instances of Fujinet-PC (using different UDP ports for the specific NetSIO traffic between the emulation and FujiNet-PC….
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
Mark Grebe 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 (that is, desktop systems not ESP32 based systems). FN-PC builds for your Macintosh, Linux or sometimes Windows desktop and allows retro…
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…
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…
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…