KillZone: First Real-Time Multiplayer Gaming The FujiNet Gaming System (FGS) has allowed the first multi-player, multi-platform gaming applications to blossom. Killzone is my own addition to the pantheon – I wanted to provide a basic, simple, (using only character graphics) proof of concept application for real-time action gaming. While only Atari is currently supported a…
Category: 6502
Battleship Docks for Atari
Eric Carr the genius 8bit game designer and developer who created Five Card Stud and Fujitzee, two of the first and most polished multi-platform, multi-client games for use with FujiNet (they run on Coco, Atari, Apple2, C64) has just ported over his latest game Battleship to Atari. Battleship has been available for a few weeks…
Atari 400 Sleeper
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…
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…
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…
Good Reads
The rise and fall of 6502 gaming by Ted Spence. Interesting read as I’m also facinated by the 6502 ecosystem. I hope Medium isn’t doing something wierd with this link and you are able to read it, if not, please medium don’t be bad.
Raw Speed of the 6502
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…