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#Commodore #C64 #vic20 #plus4 hackers: Could use some help to get #FujiNet 5-Card-Stud Poker ported over from the #Atari8bit version. Can someone convert this multi-color font to work on the #Commodore systems? https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-apps/blob/master/5cardstud/atari/5card-fontmaker.f...

I have been posting to every #Commodore forum I can find, asking for additional hacking help, so that we can debug the #Commodore version of #FujiNet and get it out the door. We need people who want to hack on both the #Commodore side of things, and the #ESP32 side of things. Screenshot from 2023-06...

Of course, once the Commodore design is out of development, it will be placed on our github hardware repo, so any vendor can make it, containing all the files needed to build the hardware. Conversely, the firmware, and applications each have their own public github repo. This device will work on all...

TL:DR @idolpx and I are still doing the commodore bring-up of the FujiNet, but you can build a development unit out of e.g. a WeMos Lolin-D32-PRO, come by the discord (https://discord.gg/7MfFTvD) for details. Once the production model is ready, we'll post all the build materials in our hardware repo...

See the weather on your #Commodore #Vic20? Yes! I made a version of the #FujiNet Weather app for #vic20 that runs on unexpanded VICs via cart, showing that cart programs can access FujiNet just as easily. Cart allowed for this program to use a custom charset.

That's cool, did you use a tool to convert the bitmap to a charset?

-Thom

Can you help do that? I have a _LOT_ of work to do.

-Thom

we're working on BASIC examples, still trying to get the IEC firmware into shape (it currently does not like the start and stop ATN that BASIC does), I just wanted to get SOMETHING out.

-Thom

Code posted here: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet- ... news/vic20
Compiles with CC65. Nothing special to it, the network functions are just kernal I/O.

Debugging the #commodore #vic20 version of the #FujiNet news reader (in glorious 22 cols!). The #FujiNet is merely using the user port for power, and is doing all its network I/O over the IEC. This runs on an unexpanded VIC due to using KERNAL routines to talk to the network.

the #FujiNet News Reader for #Commodore #VIC20, being developed in cartridge for 5K, and as a program for 8K systems. The reader pulls news from a variety of sources and paginates the output for the 22 column screen. #retrocomputing Screenshot from 2023-05-26 21-33-12.png Screenshot from 2023-05-26 ...

Hey guys,

I need a VIC-20 flash cartridge for FujiNet application development that can easily accomodate a cartridge image that spans at least the $A0, $40 and $60 memory blocks. What can I use?

-Thom

A WeMos Lolin-D32-Pro like this one:
https://pmdway.com/products/lolin-d32-p ... ment-board

Basic criteria:

WROVER-E ESP32 chip
at least 8MB of flash (16 preferred)
at least 4MB of PSRAM (all ESP32's come with 320k of RAM on the SoC)

-Thom

Hi guys, Jaime (@idolpx) Johnston and I (@tschak) have been grinding through the commodore FujiNet (and Meatloaf code that underpins it) for months now, trying to iron out things like the bus timing, and it's proving to be an absolute nightmare to get timings right, working across all the 8-bit IEC ...

Anyone want to make a better PETSCII map? This was my first whack at doing any PETSCII drawing, and I needed a petscii editor with tracing paper to do it

-Thom