FujiNet had an amazing 2024. I can’t wait to see what happens for 2025.

FujiNet is not a private company. We are a public project. You can help.

We want more platforms: Commodore, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Bally Astrocade, IBM PC, NEC PC-6001, and more.

Can you help with any platform you want to see FujiNet on? Join us in Discord: https://discord.gg/2Ce9guX

We want existing platforms to get ports of 5 Card Stud and Fujitzee. Want to help? Come to Discord and tap @EricCarrGH on the shoulder.

We want more games on FujiNet. Have a game idea you want to help with? Let’s meet in the #fuji-game-system on Discord.

e.g. Artillery, turn based war games, etc.

We want to bring FujiNet to Game systems, starting with the Atari 2600 and Intellivsion. Are you a game developer? Join us on Discord!

(we also want Atari Lynx developers to help get the Lynx version to a usable state!)

We want help designing a bus interface that can be used to bring FujiNet to anything with a card edge. Have RP2040/2350 experience? Come join us on the Discord!

Again: FujiNet is not a private company, we are a public project, whose goal is to bring modern and useful networking to all the Retrocomputing and Retrogaming platforms. But we need your help.

I have a saying, I have limited engineering cycles, but I make time to teach. I freely give any bit of my knowledge to anyone who stumbles into the FujiNet discord, on a variety of software and firmware subjects. Others do it for hardware. Come and learn in the discord.

Check out the latest RAPID Newsletter that reviews everything FujiNet from 2024

The Latest news and developments from the FujiNet community on Discord. Apple II Disk writes is the big news.

News and updates from the FujiNet development group on Discord.

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