Michael J. Mahon wrote:
David Wilson wrote:mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) writes:Theoretically--if anyone bothered to write the protocol stacks for the Apple II.This would certainly be feasible for the IIgs, but an effort, and a full protocol stack for the //e would be much more difficult, because of addressing limitations.Ironically, we are now in this very situation, with a third-party Ethernet card for the Apple II line, with limited IIgs software support and no //e software support. This may be why Apple decided to drop their card.If you go to www.a2central.com you will find the following:ProDOS 8 driver for LANceGS card available to developers Author: Sheppy February 20, 2004 ///SHH Systeme now has available to developers an 8-bit driverfor the LANceGS ethernet card. The driver is only available upon request, as it must be built into the application that wishes touse it. Email looceelec@yahoo.de to request the driver.It's good to see that the wind is shifting. But, of course, any 8-bit driver will need to be integrated into whatever application uses it. Why not simply post the source and documentation? What's the worst that could happen-- more software for the card? I can understand why the designer prefers not to post the Gerber files for the board, but why the reticence about the software interface? But I stick to my contention that 64KB addressing will make a set of TCP protocols quite difficult on an 8-bit Apple II. (OK, that's the invitation for someone to prove me wrong. ;-) -michael Check out amazing quality sound for 8-bit Apples on my Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
Contiki runs of the 8 bit Commodore 64 and several other 8 bit machines. A TCP IP stack is possible, if someone would only port it to the Apple ][. I wish I had enough programming knowledge to tackle it.