On the off chance someone hadn't heard of it - Fujinet is amazing!
On the off chance someone hadn't heard of it - Fujinet is amazing!
This project really showcases the power of open source and passionate people building something for the sheer joy of it :)
It's basically an EP32 chip with a tiny smidge of custom hardware that's been programmed to speak the serial protocol of quite a number of 8 bit machines.
I have one for my 800XL and that speaks Atari's SIO protocol.
The depth and breadth of software for the thing is amazing, and overall I find the whole project incredibly inspirational.
Lately, they've been on a kick of creating a project where they've instrumented classic Atari games to post high scores on the internet, with a website 'lobby' where you can sign up to play games online with others.
Totally love mine, and which I had a bigger house so I could have an Apple II and a C64 and get the Fujinet for those platforms as well :)
I had absolutely never heard of this. Super cool! I unfortunately don't own any of the supported platforms but this is awesome regardless.
I had absolutely never heard of this. Super cool! I unfortunately don’t own any of the supported platforms but this is awesome regardless.
No problem! You don't need to own the hardware. You can use the pre-built fujinet-pc if your platform is supported, or just run Altirra (works fine from WINE if you're not on Windows) and install the fujinet SIO adapter.
It's pretty cool stuff getting on the internet with an emulated atari running an emulated fujinet IMO :)
our goal is to support every single #retrocomputing and #retrogaming platform possible, and for that, we need everyone's help. :)
I have an ESP32 set up with Zimodem which just makes the ESP32 act like a Hayes modem that talks IP instead of phone numbers to the serial port. They're a ton of fun.
FujiNet appears to offer a little bit more in the way of high level service translation.considerably more. :)
Last year I played 8bit-Slicks along with the hosts and other viewers of ZeroPage Homebrew on a live stream using an emulator that has Fujinet support. https://youtu.be/RAh_Fh0DFRg?t=1426