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The FujiNet team gathered together in Schaumburg Illinois September 6-8, 2024 for the Vintage Computer Festival 19. It was the first time some of us met in person even though we’ve know each other for years working together online and at the same time old friends getting to see each other again. VCFMW 19 outgrew itself from last year and moved to a massively larger venue which was amazing.

The FujiNet table showed a new cross platform demo called Bounce World by FujiNet Lib creator Mark Fisher. The virtual Bounce World has a server that runs on a modern computer and the retro clients get current world data from it for display. The clients show moving shapes that bounce off each other and move throughout the world which stretches across the displays of each client.

In typical FujiNet fashion, the team got some real work done together over the weekend. Andy Diller had his heart set on getting FujiNet for Foenix Retro Systems working and enlisted the help of Mr Pitre. For the first time FujiNet was able to communicate with NitrOS-9 running on the F256 using the already implemented Drivewire protocol. Drivewire is also used for the Tandy Color Computer FujiNet.

Jaime Idolpx and Retro Tech Dan did some digging into the IEC driver used by both Meatloaf and FujiNet

Jeff Piepmeier and Thomas Cherryhomes work on making the ESP32-S3 play nice with FujiNet firmware

Jeff Piepmeier (far left) on a panel about making modern hardware for vintage computers

The Extended Cut Page at atariorbit.org has more words, lots of images and errata that didn’t make it into the RAPID

The Extended Cut Page at atariorbit.org has more words, lots of images and errata that didn’t make it into the RAPID.

The 8th RAPID – The Extended Cut Page at atariorbit.org has more words and images about the events in the RAPID.

This special issue is for the 1.3 firmware release and the recent exhibits at VCF East Festival 2024.

News for FujiNet in March and April

Fifth release of FujiNet Regular Announcements in Performance, Innovations and Development (RAPID)

Third release of FujiNet Regular Announcements in Performance, Innovations and Development (RAPID)

Second release of FujiNet Regular Announcements in Performance, Innovations and Development (RAPID)