Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

["Adam Dunkels" <adam@dunkels.net>]

Hi!

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:34:10 +0100, Christian Link wrote:
> Personally, I admit I can't yet join in into the euphoric comments
> here, as I'm lacking the possibility to connect my "real thing" to the
> internet (seeing as I don't have analog lines, my old RS232 interface
> plus a modem won't do me any good, I think), but what I can say is
> that it looks and feels very, very impressing, and it's one of the
> coolest UI I've ever seen on the 64 (Oh well, I've never had Wheels or
> CLIPS, admitted!). _If_ the net connection works (And why should Adam
> kid us?), that's really a major achievement, nothing less!

Thanks! ... and yes, the Internet connectivity really does work :-)

> With regards to Adam, though, two thumbs up. Now if VICE only provided
> a means to make use of the PC's internet connection, I'd love to try
> the browser and telnet features myself. Maybe someday...

With Vice 1.6 on a Linux or FreeBSD host, it is possible to use the
RS232 emulation and use a physical serial cable between the PCs
two serial ports, and run SLIP between the PC and the emulated
C64. This is how the screenshots on the Contiki web pages were made.

> Oh, and thanks for not doing anything
> tricky that prevented Contiki from running under PC64/DOS, even ;-) !

A lot of the Contiki development was done under Vice, so there
definately are no special tricks that are supposed to make it hard
running Contiki in emulators :-)

/adam
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