Thomas Cherryhomes

Hacker, Artist, Engineer, Polymath, Goofball; Cynic.

Web: https://fujinet.online/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tschak909
FaceBook: https://facebook.com/thomas.cherryhomes
Twitter:

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2026-07-29 19:49:25 CEST

I need a tiny zen sand garden for my desk, with a rake; with the sand made out of crushed Xanax and Haldol.

2026-07-17 02:42:07 CEST

Reading my GMAIL from inside AppleSoft BASIC on my #Apple2 using #FujiNet and the BASIC extension, talking to the GMAIL protocol adapter.
#retrocomputing
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2026-07-16 17:04:00 CEST

If you'd like to support the #FujiNet WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems project, please consider the Patreon.
https://patreon.com/fujinet
Funds posted there go to hosting, software development, and docs.
#atari8bit #apple2 #trs80coco #msx #msdos
Thank you.

2026-07-11 16:57:52 CEST

I am in this picture, and I am also in this picture.
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2026-07-08 16:12:14 CEST

It is possible to hold two conflicting ideas in your head, and to be able to traverse between them, without losing one's sanity. This is the mark of intelligence, and ironically, it can and should be taught.

2026-07-06 20:48:26 CEST

#Apple2 #FujiNet ProDOS BASIC.SYSTEM with extensions released, ver. 1.0
Disk: TNFS apps.irata.online/APPLE_II/FujiNet/BASIC_w_FujiNet.po
Manual: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-manuals/releases/download/fujinet-manuals-v1.0/fujinet-basic-extension-apple2.pdf
#retrocomputing
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2026-07-06 20:03:30 CEST

All of the printed user and developer manuals for the #FujiNet WiFi Adapter are being posted here: https://fujinet.online/manuals/
Enjoy,
-Thom
#atari8bit #apple2 #trs80coco #msdos #colecoadam #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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2026-06-16 18:51:54 CEST

The #Apple2 #FujiNet Getting Started Manual is released. It is Patterned after the Apple //c Owners Manual. Enjoy!
https://fujinet.online/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fujinet-getting-started-apple2.pdf
#retrocomputing
(FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #Apple2 and other systems)
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2026-06-13 20:54:02 CEST

A Getting Started with #FujiNet Guide is complete for the #Atari8bit systems. It's available on GitHub in the fujinet-manuals repository: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-manuals/blob/main/atari/owners_guide_400_800/fujinet-owners-guide-400-800.pdf
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2026-06-07 05:17:46 CEST

And suddenly, after I have to reboot, and have cancelled my Premium X subscription, X has temporarily rate limited my account and I can't log in.
Stay classy, Twatter.

2026-06-03 03:18:30 CEST

For those of you who aren't used to public speaking at #VCF shows:
If you find yourself saying, "um" "eh" "so"
Stop before you say it. Replace those words with a pause.
Believe me, it works better, and is more effective.

2026-05-09 20:03:59 CEST

#FujiNet needs a firmware maintainer for #ColecoAdam
- Work on #ESP32 C++ code
- Periodically test nightly builds
- Improve AdamNet routine reliability
- We can teach every aspect.
go to https://fujinet.online/ and scroll down to CONTACT US

2026-05-03 02:10:46 CEST

#FujiNet is Asking for help to port the #C64 version of both 5 Card Stud and Battleship to the #VIC20 if anyone can help. https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-5cardstud
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-battleship
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #gamedev
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2026-04-30 01:48:20 CEST

Playing a quick game of #FujiNet BattleShip over the Internet on my #AtariLynx. I won. :)
#retrogaming #retrocomputing
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2026-04-19 19:46:31 CEST

#VCFEast2026 was a success for #FujiNet. Lots of people saw our diverse #retrocomputing platforms and are starting to understand that we want to bring a useful network adapter to their favorite #atari8bit #Apple2 #TRS80CoCo #MSDOS and more systems.
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2026-04-15 03:44:38 CEST

Is anyone reading my #FujiNet articles in @computesgazette ? :)
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2026-04-13 05:53:03 CEST

Social media posts now have the reach, and efficacy of direct mail. That is to say, not very.

2026-04-08 21:08:07 CEST

COMING SOON: #FujiNet GO brings your #retrocomputing and #retrogaming experience with your Android mobile device. Fusing a complete FujiNet implementation, The #Atari800 emulator, and a nice #Android UI, in one easy to use app.
https://youtube.com/shorts/W0u9arc11z8

2026-04-07 03:06:45 CEST

How am I not finding an MS-DOS binary for a version of MicroEmacs earlier than 3.12? WTF? :(

2026-04-01 23:56:09 CEST

Want to bring-up FujiNet on your favorite #retrocomputing and #retrogaming system's bus?
The first #prototype Bus Bring-up board for the #FujiNet #WiFi Adapter now on GitHub. Containing an ESP32 and an RP2350, and jumper.
(#TRS80Coco and #MSX shown)
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujiversal-pcb-prototype
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2026-03-30 03:11:00 CEST

#Apple2 talking to my #Linux box over #SSH via the #FujiNet adapter, and the CaTer terminal program, which can connect to any supported network endpoint.
(more info at https://fujinet.online/)
#retrocomputing
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2026-03-29 18:07:27 CEST

WTB: Looking for any of:
* SpectraVideo SV-328
* Memotech MTX-512
* Tatung Einstein
for doing #FujiNet bring-ups.
Please message me directly.
#retrocomputing
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2026-03-22 16:17:45 CET

#FujiNet is a WiFi adapter (and public project) for your favorite #retrocomputing and #retrogaming system, loading software from the Internet or local storage, a virtual printer, a network adapter that talks many open internet protocols, and much more! https://youtube.com/shorts/4GbZV40mirY

2026-03-08 23:27:19 CET

Successfully opened SSH connection to my Linux box from my Panasonic FS-A1 #MSX via #FujiNet. This means network functions are working as expected.
Now our apps can start to be ported.
#retrocomputing
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2026-03-03 01:46:35 CET

If ever I feel the desire to study the effects of overinflated self importance, I just head over to LinkedIn and read the blogs of self proclaimed leadership experts.

2026-02-28 16:14:17 CET

Reality really is like a bad WWE wrestling match, all the time now.

2026-02-14 00:05:37 CET

I find the American mode of "debate" to be corrupt, because it values winning over inquiry. Theatrics over insight. It is not done in good faith.

2026-01-24 16:34:22 CET

@npub12cn…fgpx has been working on a regression testing system for #FujiNet, because we really need it.
Here it is running on #Atari8bit
#retrocomputing
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2025-12-30 03:00:16 CET

My daughter Nina sketching in #krita on her Lenovo Yoga laptop running #ubuntu #linux.
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2025-12-28 04:53:25 CET

It's time for my periodic reminder: please do not contact me for #FujiNet questions privately. These questions are better answered in public where others can benefit.

2025-12-25 15:43:53 CET

Can someone who isn't a dim witted collector with more dollars than sense grab this, so that a working #grid #compass emulator can be made, and we can show and preserve these unique systems?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/197975018793
#retrocomputing

2025-12-25 05:33:44 CET

Fuck you 2025. You have fucked me over many times over. You can't be over, soon enough.

2025-12-04 22:25:34 CET

#Atari8bit? #Apple2? #Tandy? TOGETHER?!
Yes.
#FujiNet is a public community of WiFi Adapters that bring #retrocomputing and #retrogaming users together.
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2025-12-01 21:39:20 CET

Because someone asked, I made a quick video showing a development workflow for #Apple2 using #FujiNet.
Disk images are placed on a TNFS file server, and mounted read-only by the Apple2. Compile, disk, push to TNFS, and test.
https://youtu.be/vJsH2-1WbNo
#retrocomputing
Links in video description.

2025-11-27 18:01:52 CET

A "durak" named Petar Pandurov has made it a mission to report me for spamming, every single time I post on Facebook about #FujiNet across groups.
I just can't fucking win.
People fucking suck.

2025-11-23 20:41:49 CET

It's extremely frustrating when I am ACTUALLY showing a #PCjr doing ACTUAL network things with #FujiNet, and I get maybe 100 views, and I see stupid shit like THIS:
FML.
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2025-11-03 03:31:23 CET

#FujiNet WiFi Adapter for #Heathkit #H89 bring-up: RX & TX comms now stable across the 8255.
Now to leverage the work @npub12cn…fgpx has done to refactor devices and media.
#retrocomputing
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2025-10-31 17:07:02 CET

I am currently working on #HeathKit #H89 bring-up, bc the hardware is stable. Will continue on #Intellivision once it's working.
If anyone wants to help with #Intellivision, first goal is to get a ROM emulation using PiRTO-II cart, but with firmware using the #RP2040 PIO.
Any1 want to try?
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

2025-10-18 21:17:01 CEST

I keep trying to tell people about #FujiNet.
That it is a WiFi adapter for your favorite #Atari8bit, #Apple2, #ColecoAdam, #TRS80CoCo, #Commodore, #Atari2600, #AtariLynx, and #MSDOS machines, with more to come.
But word isn't getting out.
Can u help?
http://fujinet.online/

2025-07-30 15:46:52 CEST

Not that I'm anyone, but, it breaks my heart to see the Linux community, with whom I have spent my time and energy for decades, unable to stop fighting with each other, and for the veracity of that fighting to continually increase, while corporate interests just gobble it up.

2025-07-28 23:14:40 CEST

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software engineering (in particular modern Java development) has become a most miserable exercise in samethink.

2025-07-28 20:29:44 CEST

I used to love software engineering...
...used to.

2025-07-27 19:33:24 CEST

A big thank you to those who donate hardware to #FujiNet (An Internet adapter) for new computer and gaming console bring-ups. You are a huge help.
(p.s. if FujiNet doesn't exist for your favorite system yet, hardware donation is one way you can help.)
https://fujinet.online/

2025-07-27 03:33:47 CEST

On systems w existing super-peripherals, #FujiNet becomes a reference design to add useful networking features. We want projects like BlueSCSI and BackBit, etc. to add FujiNet features. We do not ask for any licensing; we want to foster a useful and ubiquitous way to network #retrogaming and #retrocomputing systems.

2025-07-14 21:40:57 CEST

The MAGA Populists have now had their Bernie 2016 blackpill moment. Maybe, just maybe, we can use this opportunity for all of us to come together and engage in some much needed; very frank discussion, and perhaps, a new shared point of view?

2025-07-09 17:49:29 CEST

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I still remember Hurricane Katrina, which left Louisiana a wreck, oh, but the French Quarter was rebuilt!
In the last 3 years alone we've had multiple hurricanes, extreme wildfires, and one epic chemical spill that has left a massive wasteland in the middle of Ohio. And in each and every case, both state and federal governments did next to nothing.

2025-07-09 15:06:02 CEST

We have had multiple cataclysmic disasters in the last quarter century. With each one, more Americans are asking " why should I pay taxes? "

2025-06-29 23:18:54 CEST

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I've been following Wayland ever since it first appeared.
It has a number of fundamental improvements that I agree with, but it also has a huge number of edge cases that are still not covered. I'm concerned because there is a concerted effort to completely eject Xorg from every major distribution IN THE SHORT TERM, and this will leave an unknown (and substantial) number of hardware configurations out in the cold.

2025-06-29 20:41:35 CEST

I can't use #Wayland with my #Linux system. Performance is terrible.
I have a 2021 Lenovo P17Gen1.
It has both an Intel P630 and NVIDIA RTX3000 Mobile GPU, running as a Prime pair.
It has a 4K eDP display, and two LG 4K displays, one connected via USB-C, and one via DP, via a TB3 Dock, all running at 60Hz.
It has 128GB of RAM, and 4TB of striped BTRFS SSD.
I am running the latest #Hyprland.
I tried running on #Arch, which cut the frame rate worse than half ANY time I connected an external 4K display ANYWHERE on either the laptop, or dock, DP, or USB-C. It refused to work via HDMI.
Switched to #Ubuntu and use Koolit's #Ubuntu installer for Hyprland. Performance is close to 60fps, but not quite. Stutters, and OBS runs at an average of 10fps, regardless of whether #PipeWire is in use, or not. Unusable.
I have been a #Linux user since September of 1991, and I can't even begin to know where the F**K to go to even diagnose this problem, due to the sheer number of variables.
Is it the NVIDIA drivers?
Is it Wayland?
Is it Hyprland?
Is it Pipewire?
Why is the performance better on #Ubuntu than on #Arch?
If I were to use Wayland, what COMPARABLE GPU would I use instead?
Do I just completely jettison using a laptop and build a workstation instead?
Why in the flying F**K can I not get stable vsync?!
I am posting this, because I am genuinely looking for knowledgable answers from knowlegable people, and I am _VERY_ concerned, that given the mass exodus from Xorg to Wayland, that I need to figure out something before I end up with a system configuration that is unusable.
-Thom

2025-06-27 14:18:54 CEST

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It really is early days and simple today. We wrote a lot of example apps.
* ISS Tracker
* FujiNet Games (5 card stud, Fujitzee)
* News Reader
* Wikipedia
* ChatGPT front-end
* VT100 and dumb terminals (netcat, CaTer, etc.)
* High Score Enabled games (lots of Atari 8 bit games) https://scores.irata.online/
* PLATOTerm (for connecting to IRATA.ONLINE)
* Mastodon (show latest Mastodon post)
* Weather
* Network Tools (For transferring data between file endpoints)
etc.
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-apps
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-news
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-lib-examples
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-weather
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-cater
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-iss-tracker
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-contiki-webbrowser
It's weird how it doesn't seem like there's a lot, and yet, we wrote a ton of code.

2025-06-26 14:39:40 CEST

I gave a State of the Union (SOTU) talk on the #FujiNet Internet Peripheral for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems, at VCF Southwest 2025 in Texas on Sunday, which has been posted to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCPcEbMEbeo

2025-06-25 19:57:41 CEST

Kurtwood Smith would have crushed it as The Joker.
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2025-06-17 18:44:22 CEST

Come see the #FujiNet WiFi Adapter at the VCF SouthWest Show in Dallas, TX this weekend. Table 135.
You can see it in action on #Commodore, #Atari8bit, #Apple2, #IBM, #ColecoAdam, #Trs80CoCo, and others.
https://www.vcfsw.org/

2025-06-11 01:06:19 CEST

39 years as a software engineer, and every single gig, large or small, is literally Wallace and Gromit and the f***ing train tracks.
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2025-06-08 03:48:38 CEST

#FujiNet brings a Wi-Fi adapter to many systems, bringing Internet to your fav retro platforms in a public project that anyone can participate in.
ATARI? Apple2? Commodore? Coco? Others? All yes.
Sound fun?
https://fujinet.online/
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
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2025-06-05 17:31:23 CEST

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It is a WiFi adapter providing virtual disk (load/write/use software from local or Internet storage), a virtual printer emulating dozens of printers rasterizing to PDF to print on a modern printer, a WiFi MODEM to use with existing comms programs, and a network adapter exposing a bunch of networking protocols (TCP/UDP/HTTPS/SSH/SMB/NFS/TNFS/etc) along with the ability to directly process JSON and XML data, in an easy to use programming and operating system interface.
more info here: https://fujinet.online/

2025-06-04 01:29:30 CEST

FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems.
FujiNet-PC brings it to emulators.
@npub1xhj…s4y4 ported it to run on the MiYoo Mini Plus, so now we have FujiNet gameplay on the go! Seen here running #Atari8bit.
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2025-05-21 05:08:07 CEST

I figured that news of a #PC version of #FujiNet for vintage PCs would have generated some buzz.
Nope. It's #@($%@_ impossible to get the word out.
#retrocomputing
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2025-05-18 15:59:03 CEST

#FujiNet is a #WiFi Network Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming platforms.
https://youtu.be/-sKjDuqvTII
The #RS232 version of the #FujiNet can be plugged up to any vintage PC, like a #PCjr.
Wanna help? Check fujinet.online!

2025-05-16 14:35:26 CEST

Stuff that needs finishing #5324590243: A version of Wizard of Wor for #NES.
It's written in #C. Code on GitHub if anyone wants it before I get back to it.
https://github.com/tschak909/wow
#gamedev
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2025-05-15 08:33:28 CEST

I love The Fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=calbtfi9vjA

2025-04-21 20:45:45 CEST

Hollywood finally solved the piracy problem by making movies so bad that most people don't even pirate them.

2025-04-13 19:25:24 CEST

The #Frob PCB rev-eng is done. Now we make some test boards.
Now this rare PCB is preserved for any1 who wants one.
Available on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/retroabandon/apple2-re/-/tree/main/frob?ref_type=heads
(The #Frob was an #Atari2600 #GameDev system for #Apple2)
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2025-04-11 01:04:06 CEST

Things you do for #Atari2600 #GameDev that you do nowhere else: COUNT CYCLES.
The pictured code being developed on the #Apple2 using a Frob, implements the 6 digit score display by utilizing the unique VDEL registers for players which allowed you to get enough time to write 6 different player images very close together.
This is important because there is only 76 cycles on a scanline, and you're changing things as the raster sweeps.
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2025-04-09 20:18:36 CEST

There is a rev-eng effort for The Frob, an #Atari2600 #gamedev system for #Apple2, happening on the VCFed forums: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/the-frob-it-needs-some-rev-eng-love.1252421/

2025-04-06 16:23:18 CEST

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I saw all of this coming 6 years ago, and it's why I tried to make #FujiNet something anyone could build, by not limiting production, by not asking for license fees, and by making a computer-hosted version that could also attach to emulators.

2025-04-02 15:11:50 CEST

Perhaps the most revealing reaction to the massive changes happening in society, is the profound lack of empathy from the understanding of solidarity in our shared condition.
I'm not surprised, it has been bred out of us. But it still stings.

2025-04-02 00:30:16 CEST

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel

2025-03-31 04:56:28 CEST

#Frob #GameDev #Apple2 #Atari2600 Current status, reading and comparing the implementation of EXPLORER's embedded FMON, versus the FMON that gets loaded by AMON. There are some differences, need to understand why EXPLORER works and FMON doesn't (even though FMON is being called from the vblank).
(talked with @npub12zs…g99u today and she suggested explicitly calling FMON from the vblank. not working though, something very subtle.)
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2025-03-20 00:50:00 CET

Some days I really feel like I'm wasting my time, trying to preserve knowledge and artifacts that almost no-one gives a shit about...

2025-03-15 20:52:14 CET

The Frob was an #Atari2600 #gamedev system running on #Apple2.
Frobco published source code for their tools, because it was expected that users would write their own, such as this player editor I whipped up, which uses bi-directional comms to send data entered at the computer to a program running on the VCS.
https://youtu.be/MzsMGaWhZRM
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

2025-03-11 20:35:01 CET

The Frob was an #Atari2600 #Gamedev system for an #Apple2.
ATARI did not document the 2600. Besides the code in the manual, You had to reverse engineer other games to learn how things worked, seen here using Apple2 monitor.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing
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2025-03-10 20:19:24 CET

Hi-Res shots of the main Frob-26 board, an ATARI 2600 #gamedev system for #apple2. hopefully we can rev-eng this.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
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2025-03-10 00:46:36 CET

The Frob-26 Atari 2600 Development system (based on an Apple II+) I borrowed from the Natl Videogame Museum is working for the first time in 40 years. :)
https://youtu.be/IAefPk7WgJk
#gamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming

2025-03-08 18:12:17 CET

Why bother creating?
Why bother when someone can just ask AI?
Why bother creating when society devalues those who can to nothing more than menial labor, to be fed to these AI systems?
Why bother?

2025-03-04 00:06:33 CET

CP/M Users: Looking for a copy of Avocet XASM85 for a resurrection project. #retrocomputing

2025-02-26 16:38:06 CET

Back in the days of Novell 2.x:
NOVELL: "You need to format this disk with COMPSURF before I'll even touch it,"
Me: "Oh, ok, I can do that over lunch. How long will it take to format this 150 megabyte disk?"
NOVELL: A DAY AND A HALF.
Me: "Ok, I guess I'll take up day drinking."

2025-02-01 05:48:52 CET

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not a document, I should write one.
We have serial busses, SIO (Atari), AdamNet, IEC (Commodore), IWM (Apple2), ComLynx, DriveWire (CoCo), RS232, and the RC2014 uses SPI.
We are developing parallel bus implementations, now, and we are taking our time to experiment, so more will be possible soon.

2025-02-01 00:12:29 CET

FujiNet for RS232 Status: @FozzTexx 's driver working great mounting a disk from the Internet, on my GRiD.
https://youtu.be/AMgrXgm9WVc

2025-01-31 21:48:42 CET

Somebody asked me:
"Why bother with FPGA? Why don't you just use an emulator at that point?"
My view on modern #retrocomputing:
* Hardware will fail. If we are to preserve long-term, both emulation and gate level simulation are critical.
* FPGAs can implement things that are hard to implement in software, and vice versa.
* Improvements in one will positively affect the other.
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I do not disrespect the nostalgia, but I have an unusual perspective on #retrocomputing:
I never stopped using any of this stuff, so for me, it's a continuum. I used all this stuff yesterday, I use it today, and I will use it tomorrow.

2025-01-23 18:56:07 CET

FujiNet is a WiFi adapter for ATARI 8-bit and other systems. Here we use it to pull source of @Ed_Fries Princess and the Frog (ROMOX) right from @GitHub and build it.
https://youtu.be/ppbV50iHFN4
#retrocomputing

2025-01-16 05:03:37 CET

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We are working to bring FujiNet to the Z80/8080 systems, through multiple I/O ports (serial, parallel and bus).
FujiNet does have an HTTP/S protocol adapter in its firmware, and a browser is written in C which can be ported over to CP/M (and built e.g. with Hitech or Aztec, or with a bit of serious massaging even with BDS C) ;)
-Thom

2025-01-13 04:07:39 CET

f*ck this dude and his f*cking checkmark, and low effort content.
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2025-01-04 04:20:22 CET

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e.g. one of the ideas on my long term development list is to make an amiga framegrabber that plugs into the zorro slot that can get its video data from any NDI camera on the nearby network. :)

2025-01-04 04:16:40 CET

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one of the greatest boons to recent day retrocomputing has been the RP2040/2350 in the Raspberry Pico devices. Its programmable IO macroblock has opened the floodgates for a whole new class of software defined peripherals e.g. PicoMem and PicoGUS on the PC... essentially deleting FPGAs and CPLDs from many designs, and replacing them with a part that's 50 cents in singles.

2025-01-04 03:01:24 CET

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USB for keyboard. HDMI for video output. FujiNet for I/O. :)
Mostly because I use my systems for software development, so as long as I can run my compilers, toolchain, and test things, I'm good. :)

2025-01-02 07:34:18 CET

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front panel clock? not the 550. It had lots of other weird things too. INT 15 equipment list was broken beyond belief. But all things considered, it was built to a price point...
...looking back, I don't think anyone predicted that Taiwan would be ultimately responsible for homogenizing the PC market and bottoming out all the pricing ...

2025-01-02 07:20:50 CET

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know all those machines too. The 550 had the tiniest bootstrap ROM. BIOS came off disk, and had the funniest error msg I ever saw: "INT 13 can not be used for benchmark purposes"

2025-01-02 06:44:49 CET

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wrote code for the rainbow, a non stop succession of migraines. I did like the 7220 based color adapter, but almost no one had one.
I wanna know who thought having a shared head assembly was a good idea? I mean at least I understood that the lack of a formatting tool was so they could sell disks at a premium , as shitty as that was, but, making it so you had to flip the disk different orientations depending on which drive was plain silly.

2025-01-02 05:40:40 CET

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I really wanna know what dec engineers were smoking with the RX50. WTAF? :)

2025-01-02 05:34:37 CET

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my CP/M environment these days is Marcelo Dantas' excellent RunCPM, which I embedded into FujiNet.
Uses the SD card as filesystem, but also extended BDOS calls to do network things.

2025-01-02 01:46:16 CET

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Try pinging e.g. Roger Arrick. (He frequents e.g. the vcfed forums and the Intel-Devsys mailing lists). I don't have a Shugart 801 or I'd help.
(p.s. I've done CP/M bring-up from skeletal CBIOS too heehee), those fun moments when you have to cobble together a write track routine to lay down those first two tracks...

2025-01-01 16:54:59 CET

For anyone who wrote MS-DOS device drivers: The Device Driver Header (DDH) ddh_attribute field specifies device driver characteristics. One of them is IBM format vs non-IBM format block device. What is the functional difference?
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2024-12-31 05:24:53 CET

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irony. Since this first version of FujiNet for MSDOS is RS232, I am needing to make something very akin to FOSSIL, so that the ISA card version can use the same programming model, when available.

2024-12-31 00:16:39 CET

Posted current status of the IBM PC RS232 FujiNet to VOGONS and where I need help (to debug the BIOS interface)
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1317934#p1317934
is there some sort of secret social cue that I need to do, in order to get a reply on VOGONS?

2024-12-25 17:51:38 CET

Merry Christmas, everyone! FujiNet for MS-DOS, first version using RS-232-C works. https://fujinet.online/2024/12/25/merry-christmas-everyone-rs-232-c-fujinet-works/

2024-12-20 19:39:08 CET

This is a comprehensive look at what the Commodore VIC-20 can do, game-wise. Most every game shown for a few seconds. You get a good feel for those games that leveraged the display well, and those that didn't. #retrocomputing #retrogaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-PwJWMr1uM

2024-12-19 22:48:57 CET

To the admin running the "Commodore 64/128" Facebook group:
You're a dick. F**k you.
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2024-12-17 16:41:06 CET

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari8Bit #CommodoreAmiga #ColecoAdam #TRS80CoCo #Apple2 I'm doing all of this, because I've the knowledge and expertise, and the ability to communicate what is quickly becoming lost knowledge, and since my income is from elsewhere, I do not need to rely on the incentives of monetization, and can concentrate on accuracy. Thx.

2024-12-12 00:26:03 CET

Donald Bitzer just passed. He was 90 years old. Lived a full life, spending the majority of it engaged in the integration of computers into education, having created the #PLATO learning system.
Thank you, Don.
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