[Coco] Retro hackers

[Joel Ewy]

Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Check this out...
> <http://retrohackers.org/28.php>
>
> It would seem that the C64 hardware hacking scene is a lot more
> active, and
> advanced than the Coco scene. Not surprising, given the relative
> volumes of
> machines sold...
>
> It would appear that no-one has attempted to add an ethernet adapter
> to the
> Coco - right? 
Actually, I believe somebody was working on hooking up one of the little
microcontroller ethernet modules, but it looked like progress was slow,
and last I saw his web site hadn't been updated in a few years.  [...1
bookmark search and 1 Google search later...]  Ah, Jim Hathaway.  See
this web page:  http://hat3.net/  It looks like he switched his plan to
using an ISA 3Com card.

I've got a small supply of 8-bit NE-1000 (NE-2000 compatible) cards that
I have always thought shouldn't be too difficult (hardware-wise) to
interface to a CoCo.

An easier, though more expensive, option would be to use something like
the SitePlayer Telnet.  Just hook that up to a serial port, and it acts
like a modem.

Also, doesn't the Cloud-9 Superboard have a planned ethernet adapter?
> I'm surprised - looks like the C64 networking is reasonably
> mature and quite usable. Surely a network-enabled NitrOS-9 machine
> would be
> pretty cool???
>
Indeed it would.  Especially a 25MHz FPGA CoCo!

JCE
> Regards,
>