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Introduction

Once you have your FujiNet plugged in to your computer and you turn your computer on, you will probably ask yourself “Well, what now?”

Here’s a (small) list of suggestions for your shiny new FujiNet device.

If you find a new program or game that runs on FujiNet that is not listed here, submit an issue (or better, a Pull Request) in order to get it added to this list.

Common FujiNet Actions

Get the IP address of your FujiNet

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 1 minute

Use the [C]onfig menu option in FujiNet on your Atari to view the current IP address of the FujiNet device.

It might be handy to write down the current IP address of your FujiNet, since some of the activities below will ask you to connect to the FujiNet using the IP address.

Things you can do with FujiNet on your local network

Connect to your FujiNet with a web browser

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: Less than 5 minutes

The FujiNet device runs a mini web server, and some of the configuration settings of the device are available only via the web interface. Once you connect to the FujiNet from another computer using a web browser, you can easily interact with the FujiNet.

“Print” from your Atari

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: Less than 5 minutes

Wait, what? Print from your Atari? Well, no, not really. When you print a file on your Atari to a “printer device” provided by FujiNet, the printer pages received by FujiNet will be converted to PDF files and stored on the FujiNet device.

After you “print” the file on your Atari, use a web browser on a modern computer, tablet or phone to browse to the IP address of your FujiNet, download the rendered PDF file and print it.

FujiNet MicroSD Card Slot

Set up an MicroSD card

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: varies by how many files you copy to the MicroSD card from your computer

Take a MicroSD card from a known reputable brand (SanDisk, Kingston, Lexar, etc.), and format it with a FAT32 filesystem, then add Atari disk images (.ATR) and Atari executable files (.XEX) to the card from a PC/Mac/Linux computer.

Things you can add to the SD card for your FujiNet

  1. Games
  2. Atari utilities
  3. FujiNet utilities
  4. Communication programs
  5. CP/M filesystem

Mounting a disk image stored on the SD card

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 3-5 minutes per game to load

Creating a new disk image on an SD card

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: Less than 5 minutes

Run the built in CP/M system

  • Skill Level: Easy-Moderate
  • Time Required: 15-30 minutes
  1. Download the CP/M files from here
  2. Place the files in a folder called /CPM
  3. Connect the device (FujiNET, Atari 850) to the SIO port (preferably disconnect the others).
  4. Install the R1: device driver (preferably RS232.COM for SpartaDOS X).
  5. Launch TTR.
  6. (FujiNET) Write ATCPM to run the built-in CP/M.
  7. (FujiNET) Execute EXIT command to shut down CP/M before closing the terminal.
  8. Full-screen software e.g. WordStart, Turbo Pascal, etc. should be configured
   for ADM-31 (or ADM-3A) terminal to get full benefit from the terminal.
  9. Back to DOS: Ctrl + Shift Q
  10. (VBXE) Adjust font colors (Ctrl + Shift -,=) and background (Ctrl + Shift 9,0), e.g. you can have pink fonts like in C128 CP/M
  11. (VBXE) Save color settings in the configuration file with Ctrl + Shift S

Links

Using remote TNFS servers

Connect to TNFS Hosts and browse files

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 5 minutes

Use the list of FujiNet servers (below) to connect a remote TNFS server. Once you have connected to the remote server, you can use the following keyboard keys to navigate the remote TNFS server.

  • ➡️ (Right Arrow) - Enter into a directory
  • ⬅️ (Left Arrow) - Navigate backwards in menus
  • ⬆️ (Up Arrow) - Navigate up in a list of items
  • ⬇️ (Down Arrow) - Navigate down in a list of items

List of known TNFS hosts: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/wiki/Known-TNFS-Hosts

Note that TNFS hosts frequently appear and disappear. If your favourite TNFS host is not available, try again later.

Downloading a file to a SD card inserted into your FujiNet

Use the list of FujiNet servers (below) to “mount” a remote server (attach a remote server to your local FujiNet device).

Get your local weather

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 5 minutes

Mount the “weather” ATR file read-only to your local FujiNet device, then hit “Option” to boot the virtual disk. Once the Weather program loads, it will query the Internet and get the current weather for the location where your Internet IP address is registered to (GeoIP).

FujiNet File Locations

  • FujiNet.online/networking/weather.atr

Links

View the “Astronomy Picture Of The Day” (APOD)

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 3-5 minutes per game to load

Atari-apps.irata.online/Networking/apod.xex

Play networked games

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 3-5 minutes per game to load

Browse the FujiNet-enabled games on a TNFS server, mount a game disk, then hit “Option” to boot that game.

FujiNet Game Directory Locations

  • FujiNet.online/netgames

Links

Locate the International Space Station (ISS)

View registered COVID cases in Europe

Connect to and Run PLATOTERM

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: Less than 5 minutes
  1. Connect to the TNFS server atari-apps.irata.online
  2. Download the file plato.atr from the Comms folder
  3. Load the plato.atr disk into Slot 1 on FujiNet and hit “Option” to boot it
  4. Once the PLATOTERM program launches, it will connect to the remote server
  5. Log in using your PLATOTERM account, or user: guest and group: guest if you do not have an account

FujiNet Game Directory Locations

  • Atari-apps.irata.online/Comms/plato.atr

Use the Option key on the Atari in the PLATOTERM program to view a Help menu

Connect to BBSes online

Use the N: device to connect to things

Use the FujiNet Utilities to interact with FujiNet and TNFS

  • Skill Level: Easy
  • Time Required: approximately 3-5 minutes

Have your computer talk to you via SAM (Software Automatic Mouth)

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