#FujiNet Weather App for VIC-20

[tschak909]

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.

[orion70]

Cute! I'm a big fan of weather apps

I missed the whole FujiNet topic, could you please summarize for me and other distracted readers what's it all about and how can we have these applications up and running on our VICs?
TIA

[tschak909]

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 repository on GitHub.

But for the TL:DR TL:DR:

FujiNet Is:

* Virtual disk drive that can load disks over local SD storage and network
* Virtual printer, which rasterizes to PDF and emulates common printers (e.g. Commodore MPS-803 and Epson MX-80)
* Network adapter, which offloads tons of protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP/S, SSH, SMB, NFS, TNFS, FTP, others) for programs and users to use
* CP/M support (via RunCPM) with complete 64K CP/M 2.2 machine.
* and more

The Commodore version interfaces over the IEC port, and thus can be used by all Commodore 8-bit machines with an IEC port (VIC-20, C64, C116/C16/Plus4, C128), with an IEEE-488 version forthcoming for PET/CBM2 owners.

Since it uses the IEC port, it also interfaces with the KERNAL I/O routines. This means it's transparent, and can be used from any language or program.

-Thom

[orion70]

Very cute! Should anyone be interested in this wonder device, but incapable of building it himself, is there a plan to produce it for mass distribution?

[tschak909]

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 Commodore systems with an IEC connector (and an IEEE-488 version is planned as well)

-Thom