FoReM 850 26M

The FoReM 850 disk is available on atari-apps.irata.online. However, it is read only, it must be duplicated for your use. Follow the instructions below.

To Copy and set up your BBS

1. Reset your FujiNet, start your Atari.
2. Boot into CONFIG
3. Select atari-apps.irata.online from your host list; add it, if not there.
4. Select the BBS folder
5. Select the FoReM-850-26M folder
6. Select the FoReM-850-26M-D1.ATR disk image. Mount it in D1.
7. Create a new 720K disk on your SD card or local TNFS server. Mount it in D2:. This will be your program and data disk.
8. Tap option and Boot
9. At the FoReM menu, tap BREAK key.
10. Go to DOS. Wait for MyDOS 3.08 menu to appear.
11. Press O to configure drive
12. Specify drive 2
13. Is drive configurable? Y
14. Is Drive double sided? Y
15. Tracks/side? 80,2
16. Press I to format disk
17. Drive? 2
18. Format Drive 2? Y
19. Press J to duplicate disk
20. From--to? D1:,D2:
21. Once disk is duplicated, reset #FujiNet, wait 5 seconds, Press M to run at address, type E477, this does a cold start.
22. Once FujiNet is rebooted, eject device slots 1 and 2.3. Mount your new program/data disk in D1: being sure to select Read/Write
23. Tap OPTION to boot. Wait for FoReM menu.
24. At the FoReM menu, select BBS Initializer
25. Initialize the BBS
26. Follow the prompts, a good number for caller size is 255 users, and for message bases? 255 sectors.
27. Once complete, return to the FoReM menu
28. Start the BBS
29. Enjoy

Additional notes

• Pressing START, will stop the BBS gracefully, and return you to READY prompt.
• Pressing SELECT, will log you on locally.
• You can go back to the menu by RUN"D:START2
• Do not run RUN"D:START - as it performs tasks that should only be done once per #Fujinet cold start, such as set the listening port, and enable auto answer.
• For best results, connect to the board at 1200 baud. Upload works perfectly at this speed.

Changing the listening port

The FujiNet is configured by default to listen on port 6502. To change this:

READY
[]

LOAD "D:START"
LIST 11

11 PORT=6502:PORTHI=INT(PORT/256):PORTLO=PORT-PORTHI*256

• Change the PORT value to your desired port number, anywhere from 1-65535

Then:

SAVE"D:START"

For good measure, reset the FujiNet, and restart everything.

Adding Additional Disks for File areas

FoReM will automatically attempt to detect additional drives for file areas. Feel free to configure and format additional disks to store files, and use the (O)Configure command in MYDOS to configure for larger disks, a good disk configuration is an 8" double density disk, which will give you one megabyte of space, this can be configured as:

• Press O
• Drive? 3 (or higher)
• Configurable? Y
• Double Sided? Y
• Tracks/side: 77,2

MyDOS will automatically set the correct # of sectors per track.

In Config, this New disk must be specified as a custom disk, that has 256 byte sectors, and 4004 sectors total.

• Keep in mind, that MyDOS disks can have a total of 64 files on the disk.

Validating Users

Users must be validated before they can post. To Validate, press START, and then:

READY
RUN"D:VALIDATE"

Follow prompts. Scan for new users. When asked to change data, change the security level to something above 0.

READ THE DAMNED DOCS!

Please print out FOREMDOC and FORM2DOC to the #FujiNet printer, AND READ THEM, DAMN IT! I have even put copies of them here FOREMDOC and FORM2DOC

How did I add FujiNet Clock support to FoRem-26M?

Read here How I added FujiNet Clock support to FoRem-26M

Bugs?

Yes. There are.