Subj : RE: Fujinet for Atari 800 XL
To   : massive
From : dingo
Date : Sat Sep 14 2024 14:41:38


On Saturday, August 31st massive said...
 Ma> Yes, i work with the Fujinet and love it. It's great for your Atari, 
 Ma> Apple2 Coco and C64. Using it for BBS work is the reason i setup my own 
 Ma> BBS that I used to connect to FSXnet.

I must be missing something, I do watch the updates about Fujinet, but I don't understand the appeal. With a serial connection and an intermediary linux machine, you can do everything Fujinet offers and more. You can use telnet, ssh, browse the web, read e-mails, play nethack, whatever you can do on a Linux terminal you can do on your retro computers over a serial connection.

Plus, instead of writing 8-bit assembly, you can write software on Linux in any language you like. I guess the only limitation is you won't be able to use graphics, but if you're going to make graphical programs that require special hardware like Fujinet, why not write a graphical interposer client, like RIPterm was? Plus a lot of people are stuffing raspberry pi's inside their retrocomputers, anyway, so Linux is usually in the mix anyway!

I don't mean to poo poo on Fujinet I just honestly don't understand the appeal. I love retro computers, shucks I have an Apple 1, ][+, ][e, IIgs, Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, and Amiga 500 to name a few. But they all are capable of serial by design or peripheral cards so I just do that!

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