This Week in FujiNet – the first issue. There is so much going on with the FujiNet project these days I thought I’d take a moment and begin to track some of the bigger developments that are happening every day on the Discord server. This will provide a useful recap for people that may not…
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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.
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…
FujiNet HighScore Club
bocianu has released a xex app that will let you set and register your own credentials to the HSC – High Score Cafe. As more games support this feature you can track high scores across all networked Atari players of these games. Read about it on this AA thread.
FujiNet is coming to ADAM
Video update from Thom CherryHomes– he breaks it all down and shows the first FujiNet Alpha Hardware box. I have posted a full ADAM software archive to my tnfs server: fujinet.diller.org/ADAM
Loading Images on NEON
With Neon you can load MIC format images! Now to setup a pipeline to convert PNG/JPG/GIF into Micropainter format. And the cool APOD server from billkendrick does almost all of that. More to come.
July BASIC Challenge
So, over in /r/RetroBattlestations they have a series of interesting challenges that last for a month. These usually involve doing something interesting with your old battlestation, then posting proof that you achieved the challenge. Then there is voting and the most voted entry wins. So the July Challenge is running a BASIC program on a…