[Coco] TCP/IP Programming in Commodore BASIC

[Little John]

Such a device could be mapped to the coco using the SCS* signal - that would 
require a multi-pak to use it with a disk controller, but it is an option. 
If anyone wants, I'll adapt that C64 cartridge to an EAGLE format Cartridge 
for the CoCo. I probably wouldn't produce it, but anyone who might want to 
could - I wouldn't mind - let me know - JohnT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonno Downes" <jonnosan at gmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] TCP/IP Programming in Commodore BASIC


> gene heskett <gheskett at ...> writes:
>
>> > This is using a card (originally called RR-NET although there also
>> > clones called C64NIC+) that uses a cs8900 chip to interface to
>> > ethernet. The chip will easily can interface to an 8-bit data bus and
>> > there are lots of dev modules around e.g.
>> > http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=200
>> >
>> I did DL the pdf on it, and while it may be usable, the interface will be 
>> a
>> bear, with 5 IRQ lines, and 3 DMARQ/DMAAK pairs, it looks like a lot of
>> external translation support would be needed.  Is this the chip that this
>> networking stack supports?
>>
>
>
> ip65 does indeed support the cs8900a. Don't be too concerned about the all 
> the
> interface complexity the cs8900a is capable of supporting, you don't need 
> to use
> DMA or interrupts, or even 16 bit mode. It will work happily  in 8 bit 
> polling
> mode (and more than fast enough for the volume of data a typical 8 bit 
> computer
> could sensibly produce or consume). Have a look at
> http://cbm8bit.com/fotios/fbnet.php which shows how little interface logic 
> is
> needed to connect a cs8900a breakout module into the c64 cartridge port. 
> This
> ends up mapping the registers inside cs8900a into the C64 memory space,
> specifically
>
> cs_packet_page = $de02 ;address of 'packet page' port
> cs_packet_data = $de04;address of 'packet data' port
> cs_rxtx_data = $de08 ;address of 'receive/transmit data'
> cs_tx_cmd = $de0c;address of 'command' port
> cs_tx_len = $de0e;address of 'transmission length'
>
> To send a packet out once the appropriate ethernet frame with correct src 
> & dest
> MAC address etc has been built in RAM, the next step is:
>
> 1) write a byte to the 'command' port to request the cs8900a accept a 
> packet for
> transmission
> 2) change the 'packet page' to the 'status' page inside the cs8900a .
> 3) read a byte from the 'packet data' port to get current status
> 4) wait until status byte indicates cs8900a is ready to accept a new 
> ethernet
> frame - if not, go back to step 3
> 5) once status is OK, write the length of the frame to be transmitted to 
> the
> "transmission length" port
> 6) write all the bytes in the ethernet frame to the "receive/ transmit 
> data" port
>
>
> reading data (via polling) is done by:
> 1) read the status byte to see if there is a packet to be read
> 2) if so, start reading from the "receive/ transmit data" - the first 2 
> bytes
> read are the length of the frame, followed immediately by the frame 
> contents.
>
>
>
>
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