The TNFS protocol used by FujiNet has also been used in other network cards for old 8-bit computers. My own ZX Spectrum is fitted with a Spectranet card which enables the same kind of connectivity and creativity. I wrote about it in my "DevOps For The Sinclair Spectrum" article[1] which featured here, and my TNFS site is now available through a JS emulator on a web page[2] if you want to see the kind of thing you can create. It's sort of like an old-school BBS, except the code is downloaded and run directly on your computer, which opens up a world of possibilities like multi-player games and even bridges to protocols like Gopher, Gemini and IRC which make communicating with the "modern" Internet possible even on an ancient tape-loading 8-bit micro from the 80s. Really fun stuff!
Your writeup was awesome, and couple probably be resubmitted since it has been a few years.
I'm surprised to learn there was a Starstrike 2, I just remember the original "3D Starstrike", but looking at the videos online there's definite family resemblance! My history started with the spectrum too, like so many others:
FujiNet is a multi-function network adapter. It was initially developed for the Atari 8-bit systems, but we started adapting its firmware, and building other hardware versions for other platforms.
To date, we have implementations for Atari 8-bit, Coleco Adam, Apple // and ///, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari Lynx, Atari 2600, Commodore (64/128/Plus4/VIC20). There are also system bring-ups happening for many other computers, such as ZX Spectrum, IBM PC (ISA and RS232 versions), RC-2014, BBC Micro, and more.
It provides virtual disk, for loading software from the Internet, a virtual printer which rasterizes to PDF, a network adapter with tons of protocol offloading, and a whole host of other subdevices (e.g. CP/M emulation, speech synthesizer, and more)
It is a public project, that anyone can jump in and hack on, and we want people to come in and help hack on versions for their favorite systems.
What a fun project! I think if I ever get around to opening my own makerspace/cafe, I'd like to have something like this running in the lobby for people to see how early computers looked and worked while still being somewhat useful with fujinet.
[+] [-] mark_round|1 year ago|reply
[1]=https://www.markround.com/blog/2021/12/21/devops-for-the-sin...
[2]=https://jsspeccy.markround.com
[+] [-] stevekemp|1 year ago|reply
I'm surprised to learn there was a Starstrike 2, I just remember the original "3D Starstrike", but looking at the videos online there's definite family resemblance! My history started with the spectrum too, like so many others:
https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming
[+] [-] xattt|1 year ago|reply
(1) https://zombo.com/
[+] [-] tschak|1 year ago|reply
To date, we have implementations for Atari 8-bit, Coleco Adam, Apple // and ///, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari Lynx, Atari 2600, Commodore (64/128/Plus4/VIC20). There are also system bring-ups happening for many other computers, such as ZX Spectrum, IBM PC (ISA and RS232 versions), RC-2014, BBC Micro, and more.
It provides virtual disk, for loading software from the Internet, a virtual printer which rasterizes to PDF, a network adapter with tons of protocol offloading, and a whole host of other subdevices (e.g. CP/M emulation, speech synthesizer, and more)
It is a public project, that anyone can jump in and hack on, and we want people to come in and help hack on versions for their favorite systems.
The site is here: https://fujinet.online/
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