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Re: HELP: Contiki for Apple II sightly held up on networking question
Chris Morse wrote:
On 15 Jul 2003 21:22:05 -0700, andrew.roughan@writeme.com (Roughana)
wrote:
There are many ways to "network" an Apple II.
One way of networking is to use TCP/IP.
Contiki includes TCP/IP there have been several other networks including
Appletalk, AFAIK there has never been a TCP/IP for the Apple][.
TCP/IP is a network protocol.. I would have just said that one way to
network an Apple II is to use a serial cable.
There is currently no support for TCP/IP on an Apple IIe.
The Contiki project is a 6502 based TCP/IP implementation that
includes a PPP interface.
I've been out of it for a while, last time I checked PPP was still in
development. If it's working now, that would be great!
Still includes only SLIP.
The porting of Contiki to the Apple IIe would probably involve
creating a PPP interface that supported the Apple Super Serial Card or
some other serial card, or internal modem card. Another option is to
support the LANceGS card.
Starting with SLIP to get something going and to provide a basis for
porting other Contiki developments as they become available. The LanceGS
card is probably not a good bet. Another possibility is to develop
another Contiki related development, the TFE for Commodore 64 which uses
a commercially produced embedded ethernet adapter and a fairly simple
interface to the 6502. It seems fairly easy to adapt to an Apple II slot.
Yeah. The Serial card solution would be the best, as far as it being
the most widely used.
It should be possible to create compatible RS-232 libraries for the CC65
compiler, and make porting Contiki fairly easy. All of the interface
routines would be in machine language anyway so the work would be
similar and in the compiler more general.
Not many Apple //e folks have a LANceGS card.
I did talk to the creator of the LANceGS card, and despite what it
seems to say on the Web sites, he *did* write drivers for the LANceGS
card for the Apple //e.
That's good news.
The problem is there are no "client" apps to
use it, and he doesn't want to give away the drivers he wrote..
Perhaps Contiki could be the client app.
I wanted to start some work on an Apple //c+ I got, but the machine
has a bum internal drive. Gonna have to find a new one.
Too bad. I was hoping that the Contiki port for the Apple][ was imminent.
I'm looking forward to playing with it and perhaps contributing something.
--
Rob
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity"