Wanted: assistance to get IIgs emulator(s) to use TCP/IP stack in host

[roughana <andrew.roughan@writeme.com>]

Hi all,

I want to be able to use Marinetti applications from within a IIgs
emulator - preferably wirelessly.
(and selfishly, preferably on MacOS 8.x - because I have a PB1400 and
love it. But I'd move platforms pretty quickly if any other solution
was useable)

First, what is available?

Each host machine is likely to have a TCP/IP stack that is available
to the emulator to use. All that is missing is glue code to hook
things up.

Apparently this has been done for KEGS once already, but it is not
compiled into the distribution so therefore makes it unlikely that ye
average Joe will get this to work on their own.

Bernie has great serial port wizardry that allows the IIgs to drive a
Mac serial port as its own. The Marinetti PPP link layer works but
this requires a serial cable connection to something (modem / other
computer).

Possible solutions:

o Another implementation for KEGS that can be made part of the
distribution and therefore available to everyone ongoingly.

o Some kind of serial port driver on the Mac that Bernie could talk to
without modification that routes traffic to/from OpenTransport. Would
probably require a different Marinetti link layer that expected this
setup and knew how to handle it.

o Sweet 16 on OS X is mean to be receiving a generic slot interface so
that any card (e.g. Uthernet) could be emulated. I believe that this
would require someone with Mac OS X programming ability to write a
driver that emulated a card (e.g. Uthernet) and communicated with the
host TCP/IP interface.

Does anyone have the skills necessary to be able to assist with any of
these alternatives?

Are there other possible solutions?

I welcome any discussion on this as I've been annoyed for years that
I've been unable to find a solution that works for me out of the box.

Thanks,
Andrew