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  1. My major project for this week is trying to get #FujiNet firmware v1.6.1 released. Seems like there's always another bug that needs to be squashed. Probably because FujiNet is available on so many systems and I'm still in the process of cleaning up all the copy&paste coding and creating proper base classes for everything.

    #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

    #IBMPC #TRS80 #ColorComputer #MSX #MSX2 #C128 #C64 #Commodore #Coleco #ColecoAdam #AppleII #Atari #Atari8bit

  2. My major project for this week is trying to get #FujiNet firmware v1.6.1 released. Seems like there's always another bug that needs to be squashed. Probably because FujiNet is available on so many systems and I'm still in the process of cleaning up all the copy&paste coding and creating proper base classes for everything.

    #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

    #IBMPC #TRS80 #ColorComputer #MSX #MSX2 #C128 #C64 #Commodore #Coleco #ColecoAdam #AppleII #Atari #Atari8bit

  3. My major project for this week is trying to get #FujiNet firmware v1.6.1 released. Seems like there's always another bug that needs to be squashed. Probably because FujiNet is available on so many systems and I'm still in the process of cleaning up all the copy&paste coding and creating proper base classes for everything.

    #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

    #IBMPC #TRS80 #ColorComputer #MSX #MSX2 #C128 #C64 #Commodore #Coleco #ColecoAdam #AppleII #Atari #Atari8bit

  4. My major project for this week is trying to get #FujiNet firmware v1.6.1 released. Seems like there's always another bug that needs to be squashed. Probably because FujiNet is available on so many systems and I'm still in the process of cleaning up all the copy&paste coding and creating proper base classes for everything.

    #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

    #IBMPC #TRS80 #ColorComputer #MSX #MSX2 #C128 #C64 #Commodore #Coleco #ColecoAdam #AppleII #Atari #Atari8bit

  5. My major project for this week is trying to get #FujiNet firmware v1.6.1 released. Seems like there's always another bug that needs to be squashed. Probably because FujiNet is available on so many systems and I'm still in the process of cleaning up all the copy&paste coding and creating proper base classes for everything.

    #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

    #IBMPC #TRS80 #ColorComputer #MSX #MSX2 #C128 #C64 #Commodore #Coleco #ColecoAdam #AppleII #Atari #Atari8bit

  6. New blog post! It's part five of my quest to make my very own #ColecoVision. This time, I let other people build one too, and make sure I actually included all the parts! There's still some bugs to work out, but I do still love my first clone system.

    #retrogaming #kicad #coleco

    leadedsolder.com/2026/03/24/co

  7. New blog post! It's part five of my quest to make my very own #ColecoVision. This time, I let other people build one too, and make sure I actually included all the parts! There's still some bugs to work out, but I do still love my first clone system.

    #retrogaming #kicad #coleco

    leadedsolder.com/2026/03/24/co

  8. I'm expecting to shift focus on the blog for a bit to "various kinds of shenanigans you can get up to with various sprite systems" and that also means making occasional mockups and illustrations.

    I'm very happy with how this one came out, and will be cheerfully filing it away until I come back to the TMS9918.

    #retrocomputing #ti99_4a #coleco

  9. I'm expecting to shift focus on the blog for a bit to "various kinds of shenanigans you can get up to with various sprite systems" and that also means making occasional mockups and illustrations.

    I'm very happy with how this one came out, and will be cheerfully filing it away until I come back to the TMS9918.

    #retrocomputing #ti99_4a #coleco

  10. That was one heck of a battle. But I finally got the tests to run! I only had to write my own fopen/fread for Adam CP/M, figure out why all the #FujiNet networking stuff was completely different than every other FujiNet platform, and improve the stability of the AdamNet bus on the FujiNet side. #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  11. That was one heck of a battle. But I finally got the tests to run! I only had to write my own fopen/fread for Adam CP/M, figure out why all the #FujiNet networking stuff was completely different than every other FujiNet platform, and improve the stability of the AdamNet bus on the FujiNet side. #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  12. A quick shot this week on the blog: I really like the ColecoVision as a retrodev platform, but I'm not a fan of the 12-second boot screen that also claims every program ever is copyright Coleco.

    So today we fix that.

    bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/

    #retrocomputing #coleco #colecovision

  13. A quick shot this week on the blog: I really like the ColecoVision as a retrodev platform, but I'm not a fan of the 12-second boot screen that also claims every program ever is copyright Coleco.

    So today we fix that.

    bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/

    #retrocomputing #coleco #colecovision

  14. I think I'm making some progress on AdamNet stability on the FujiNet. I've been booted into CP/M for over an hour while trying to debug an application, constantly loading my program from FN disk and then dropping back to the A> prompt, and I haven't had to hit reset once.

    #FujiNet #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  15. I think I'm making some progress on AdamNet stability on the FujiNet. I've been booted into CP/M for over an hour while trying to debug an application, constantly loading my program from FN disk and then dropping back to the A> prompt, and I haven't had to hit reset once.

    #FujiNet #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  16. The 5 stages of ~~grief~~ AdamNet

    1. The existential question: do I exist?
    2. Are you ready for a purpose?
    3. Your purpose is to fetch data.
    4. Have you filled out your reports?
    5. Please turn in your homework.

    #FujiNet #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  17. The 5 stages of ~~grief~~ AdamNet

    1. The existential question: do I exist?
    2. Are you ready for a purpose?
    3. Your purpose is to fetch data.
    4. Have you filled out your reports?
    5. Please turn in your homework.

    #FujiNet #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  18. Put together a Python script to decode the capture into AdamNet packets. It prints the timestamp in µs, the offset from previous packet as +µs, the command byte, decoded command name & device along with direction arrow. If there was any data in the packet then it is decoded and printed as both a hex dump and the decoded fields. I love how the endianness varies between packet types. Sometimes it's little endian, sometimes big.

    #FujiNet #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  19. Put together a Python script to decode the capture into AdamNet packets. It prints the timestamp in µs, the offset from previous packet as +µs, the command byte, decoded command name & device along with direction arrow. If there was any data in the packet then it is decoded and printed as both a hex dump and the decoded fields. I love how the endianness varies between packet types. Sometimes it's little endian, sometimes big.

    #FujiNet #Coleco #ColecoAdam #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

  20. A Thing Called Packri Monster (Take 2)
    Sometimes Wordpress is infuriating.

    What I remember doing is working hard on a post proclaiming to the world the existence of a weird offshoot of the Pac-Man universe called Packri Monster. I wrote it, and I saved it (I believe) so it would be posted on the morning of January 16th.

    Well, I just
    setsideb.com/a-thing-called-pa
    #niche #retro #Bandai #coleco #handheld #niche #PacMan #PackriMonster #retro #tabletop #Tomy #watch