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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

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.

Awesome work!

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.

tschak909 wrote:the #FujiNet News Reader for #Commodore #VIC20 [...]

You might want to take a look at the soft 40 column routines that come with MG Browse. These routines also include word wrap, which evidently works better in 40 columns than with 22 columns.

The 7-bit ASCII character set is included, thus no code page conversion is necessary for 99%+ of text body around.

You would need to require a +8K RAM expansion at least, but that is the case for any application that uses a fully bitmapped display on the VIC-20.

Compiles with CC65. Nothing special to it, the network functions are just kernal I/O.

Nothing against C, but if you'd go and write implementations of the clients in CBM BASIC (perhaps with a bit of ML support being strewn in as in my example above) those examples would probably encourage more people to take a look into them.

If the news feed is provided as single ASCII text file, MG Browse might even be able to access this Fujinet resource out-of-the-box. However you probably need to specify the URL hard-coded in line 12, with N$="..." instead of inputting N$ with INPUT, as certain characters (notably, ":") from the INPUT prompt show unexpected behaviour for the problem at hand.

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