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Ascending Mount FujiNet

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2024/12/17/coco-fujinet.html
The TNFS protocol used by FujiNet has also been used in other network cards for old 8-bit computers. My own ZX Spectrum is fitted with a Spectranet card which enables the same kind of connectivity and creativity. I wrote about it in my "DevOps For The Sinclair Spectrum" article[1] which featured here, and my TNFS site is now available through a JS emulator on a web page[2] if you want to see the kind of thing you can create. It's sort of like an old-school BBS, except the code is downloaded and run directly on your computer, which opens up a world of possibilities like multi-player games and even bridges to protocols like Gopher, Gemini and IRC which make communicating with the "modern" Internet possible even on an ancient tape-loading 8-bit micro from the 80s. Really fun stuff!

[1]=https://www.markround.com/blog/2021/12/21/devops-for-the-sin...

[2]=https://jsspeccy.markround.com

I’m still not quite sure what FujiNet is and how it is the last peripheral for your vintage devices. Gives me Zombo.com vibes.

(1) https://zombo.com/

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What a fun project! I think if I ever get around to opening my own makerspace/cafe, I'd like to have something like this running in the lobby for people to see how early computers looked and worked while still being somewhat useful with fujinet.
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