#sio2pc — Public Fediverse posts

I got FujinetChat to work on my Atari 800XL! But only after fixing some code in fujinet-firmware to get the PROCEED signal properly handled for SIO2PC.

The fix was submitted as my first PR to the fujinet-firmware project on github. It was accepted. :)

FujinetChat is an IRC client for Atari 8-bit computers written by Urchlay.

A thread on AtariAge about FujinetChat:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388852-fujinetchat-a-new-irc-client-for-atari-8-bit-computers-with-fujinet

Here's the repo:
https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/fujinet-chat

#retrocomputing #atari800xl #atari8bit #IRC #fujinet #sio2pc

DIY Atari SIO2PC-USB - comprised of a Waveshare FT232 (FTDI USB to RS232) module connected to a homemade Atari SIO connector.

This device allows one to connect an Atari 8-bit computer to a PC USB running RespeQt or Fujinet-PC to emulate various Atari storage and I/O devices.

#Atari800xl #atari8bit #atari800 #sio2pc #retrocomputing #fujinet #respeqt

The interviews on @ataripodcast are always interesting, but this one by @savetz with Nick Kennedy, creator of #SIO2PC and the #ATR disk image format, is fascinating.

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Interview 444 https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-444-nick-kennedy-sio2pc-and-atr

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ataripodcast/ANTIC_Interview_444_Nick_Kennedy_SIO2PC_and_ATR.mp3

Lots of brilliant links to follow in the show notes too.

It's funny, having been an isolated 8-bit Atari user in the mid-1980s and then having had a looooong hiatus from that world, it's weird to come back and discover in the last year or two things like ATR which (unlike say #FujiNet) has existed and been part of the culture for so long that nobody feels the need to talk about its origin and history.

Maybe that's why I found this one so interesting! Thanks, Kay and Nick!

#retrocomputing #Atari8bit