Re: Surf the web on the Apple II ????

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com>]

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch.DO.NOT.SPAM.ME@stockholm.bostream.se> wrote in
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>
> To get web access on the Apple II, the usual way is to run a terminal
> program and then dial up to some shell account.
>
> However, there now is a TCP/IP stack, telnet client and minimal
> web browser available for the 6502, with source, at:
>
> http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki
>
> Currently, the Contiki environment (which includes TCP/IP,
> Telnet, HTTP, HTML) runs on the Commodore 64, but it's written
> in a way such that it should be easy to port to other 6502-based
> environments (VIC-20, 8-bit Nintendo consoles, Atari, Apple II,
> etc)

I guess that's the theory but it hasn't happened yet. It doesn't seem to be
THAT easy to port or someone would have done it by now.