Atari8bit.net has a TNFS server running which you can access by adding FujiNet.Atari8bit.net or tnfs.Atari8bit.net to your FujiNet host list. Below I’ve printed some info about the server, the info updates hourly.

What is a Fujinet?

If you are into Atari 8bit and don’t know what a Fujinet is you must have been living in a cave for the last year. Actually, knowing Thomas Cherryhomes, he’s been visiting all the caves and hand delivering fliers so you have no excuse at all.

The Fujinet is a device that plugs into the SIO port on a real 8bit Atari and it will emulate every SIO device that could ever plug into an Atari (yes I do mean every. If there is something Fujinet doesn’t currently emulate you can bet it’s going to before they call the project complete!)

The brainchild of @tschak and @mozzwald, it has evolved from a simple device that can emulate an RS232 modem into the SIO Swiss Army Knife it is today, going through a dizzying array of prototypes and using ever more powerful hardware as it grew.

Aided by the coding genius of @jeffpiep, @omf, and a growing group of savants; also using code donated by anyone else willing to help, this little square now provides Disks, Cassettes, Printers, Modem, Midi and Speech Synthesis functionality to your Atari.

Fujinet connects to the internet using Wi-Fi and offers a new N: device which will allow the creation of all manner of internet connected apps, with the Fujinet doing the heavy lifting. Online games, twitter clients, gopher, telnet, ftp, web, irc, nntp servers and many other things will be “relatively simple”^*.

^*“Relatively simple” A Thom Cherryhomes phrase that means “Not Impossible“

One feature of the Fujinet is the ability to connect to Spectranet tnfs servers and load software directly from them; no need to copy the images locally. Yes you can use your Atari 8bit to boot Mr Robot and His Robot Factory from a server in Poland if you wish and you will hardly notice any difference in speed from loading it locally!

My own contributions to the FujiNet Project have been the design of the Fujinet logo, the design of the internal web interface, the SIO passthrough, the 3D design work for the initial design of the SIO receptacle, and the design & production of one of the early prototype boards.

For more info, including where to get one of these wondrous devices go to the Fujinet Homepage.