Subj : Re: Fujinet for Atari 800 XL
To   : dingo
From : paulie420
Date : Sat Sep 14 2024 16:23:25

 di> I must be missing something, I do watch the updates about Fujinet, but I
 di> don't understand the appeal. With a serial connection and an
 di> intermediary linux machine, you can do everything Fujinet offers and
 di> more. You can use telnet, ssh, browse the web, read e-mails, play
 di> nethack, whatever you can do on a Linux terminal you can do on your
 di> retro computers over a serial connection.
 di> 
 di> Plus, instead of writing 8-bit assembly, you can write software on Linux
 di> in any language you like. I guess the only limitation is you won't be
 di> able to use graphics, but if you're going to make graphical programs
 di> that require special hardware like Fujinet, why not write a graphical
 di> interposer client, like RIPterm was? Plus a lot of people are stuffing
 di> raspberry pi's inside their retrocomputers, anyway, so Linux is usually
 di> in the mix anyway!
 di> 
 di> I don't mean to poo poo on Fujinet I just honestly don't understand the
 di> appeal. I love retro computers, shucks I have an Apple 1, ][+, ][e,
 di> IIgs, Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, and Amiga 500 to name a few. But they
 di> all are capable of serial by design or peripheral cards so I just do
 di> that!

I think its more about the community and bringing people together thru hardware that allows doing all the things you mentioned - together.

Platforms are the strongest when there are people behind them; I think FujiNet is attempting to bring us together with that community behind it. Broadening out to more hardware and keeping this vintage hardware alive in a way that singular people can't. Build it and they will come - while we might be able to accomplish all of what FujiNet does, the value is that it does so easily and for the 'masses'.

IMO.



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