Anyone use Fujinet card for their Atari 800? Just ordered one, looks pretty cool -- all in one wifi, SD/drives, software repos, etc.

Late to the Atari game as I'm just getting my 800's cleaned up (classic/tank 800 and an XL).

Thinking I might need to save for that retrotink as well...

-jA



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Yes, i work with the Fujinet and love it. It's great for your Atari, Apple2 Coco and C64. Using it for BBS work is the reason i setup my own
BBS that I used to connect to FSXnet.

-andy

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Yes, i work with the Fujinet and love it. It's great for your Atari,
Apple2
Coco and C64. Using it for BBS work is the reason i setup my own
BBS that I used to connect to FSXnet.

Oh, cool. Do you run a BBS on Fujinet, or use it to "call" them? If you
run a BBS, which software do you use?

I just ordered a SpartaDOS X cart adnwas hoping to spin up a BBS on my
800 or 800XL..

I get some freezes w/Fujinet on my 800, but really love the decentralized software hosting system.

.jA



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Yes, i work with the Fujinet and love it. It's great for your Atari, Apple2 Coco and C64. Using it for BBS work is the reason i setup my own BBS that I used to connect to FSXnet.

I am so interested in this project - I watched the state of 2024 and REALLY hope the project continues to create in 2025... such a great team and work put in so far.

I DON'T have a FujiNet, but have a couple systems [C= / IIe] that they're working on... I want to get involved.



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Yeah, I just picked up a working Apple /// at vcfmw and am getting the
FujiNet working on it- it already works thanks to the work of another
dev down in Aust- Rob Justice- I just have to get the parts so I have
a working, booting A/// with FujiNet here in the states to better test
releases with.

It works nicely with the Apple and now supports read/write with ProDos disk i.e. you don't need SmartPort - before it only supported SmartPort disk
and could read DISKII but not write DISKII.

-andy
http://fujinet.org

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I don't run a BBS with FN - though people can and there are images
ready to book with a working FoREM system I think.

I use the FN in it's modem emulation to call/telnet to various BBSs
that are out there, like mine.

Again, my BBS runs on my classic Mac, System 6- using Subtext BBS.
Check out http://jcs.org for the authors website- he's written some
really nice 68k mac software.

-andy

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Yeah, I just picked up a working Apple /// at vcfmw and am getting the FujiNet working on it- it already works thanks to the work of another
dev down in Aust- Rob Justice- I just have to get the parts so I have
a working, booting A/// with FujiNet here in the states to better test releases with.

It works nicely with the Apple and now supports read/write with ProDos disk i.e. you don't need SmartPort - before it only supported SmartPort disk and could read DISKII but not write DISKII.

Thanks for the infoz - I intend to get my IIe connected soon!



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On Saturday, August 31st massive said...

Yes, i work with the Fujinet and love it. It's great for your Atari, Apple2 Coco and C64. Using it for BBS work is the reason i setup my own BBS that I used to connect to FSXnet.

I must be missing something, I do watch the updates about Fujinet, but I don't understand the appeal. With a serial connection and an intermediary linux machine, you can do everything Fujinet offers and more. You can use telnet, ssh, browse the web, read e-mails, play nethack, whatever you can do on a Linux terminal you can do on your retro computers over a serial connection.

Plus, instead of writing 8-bit assembly, you can write software on Linux in any language you like. I guess the only limitation is you won't be able to use graphics, but if you're going to make graphical programs that require special hardware like Fujinet, why not write a graphical interposer client, like RIPterm was? Plus a lot of people are stuffing raspberry pi's inside their retrocomputers, anyway, so Linux is usually in the mix anyway!

I don't mean to poo poo on Fujinet I just honestly don't understand the appeal. I love retro computers, shucks I have an Apple 1, ][+, ][e, IIgs, Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, and Amiga 500 to name a few. But they all are capable of serial by design or peripheral cards so I just do that!

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I must be missing something, I do watch the updates about Fujinet, but I don't understand the appeal. With a serial connection and an
intermediary linux machine, you can do everything Fujinet offers and
more. You can use telnet, ssh, browse the web, read e-mails, play
nethack, whatever you can do on a Linux terminal you can do on your
retro computers over a serial connection.

Plus, instead of writing 8-bit assembly, you can write software on Linux in any language you like. I guess the only limitation is you won't be
able to use graphics, but if you're going to make graphical programs
that require special hardware like Fujinet, why not write a graphical interposer client, like RIPterm was? Plus a lot of people are stuffing raspberry pi's inside their retrocomputers, anyway, so Linux is usually
in the mix anyway!

I don't mean to poo poo on Fujinet I just honestly don't understand the appeal. I love retro computers, shucks I have an Apple 1, ][+, ][e,
IIgs, Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, and Amiga 500 to name a few. But they all are capable of serial by design or peripheral cards so I just do
that!

I think its more about the community and bringing people together thru hardware that allows doing all the things you mentioned - together.

Platforms are the strongest when there are people behind them; I think FujiNet is attempting to bring us together with that community behind it. Broadening out to more hardware and keeping this vintage hardware alive in a way that singular people can't. Build it and they will come - while we might be able to accomplish all of what FujiNet does, the value is that it does so easily and for the 'masses'.

IMO.



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Yeah, it's probally not for you. Many enjoy it however.

-andy

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Yeah, I just picked up a working Apple /// at vcfmw and am getting the FujiNet working on it- it already works thanks to the work of another
dev down in Aust- Rob Justice- I just have to get the parts so I have

Rob does some good work. He managed to configure a PAL for an old RamFactor card I had here.

ST

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