[Coco] Ethernet Port Cartridge for the Coco 3

[Kip Koon]

James,
Hello!  It's really nice to speak to the person behind the project I saw on
the Internet!  I'm very interested in your little uIP AVR project.  Do let
me know when you do continue on that project.  It sounds great!  What other
projects are you working on?  I'm sure I'd be interested to hear about them
all.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of James Dessart
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:30 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Ethernet Port Cartridge for the Coco 3

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> James Dessart is or was working on an Ethernet port for the coco using 
> an AVR ATmega8.
> http://skwirl.com/coco/ethernet/

I had been working on it, but stopped due to lack of hardware knowledge. Who
knows, I may pick it up again at some point, but not right at the moment.
I've misplaced the ethernet module I was going to use and have a lot of
other projects closer to the top of my TODO stack. ;)

If you don't mind losing quite a few addresses in the IO space, you can
interface any 8-bit compatible Ethernet chip to the CoCo's bus, but as Aaron
pointed out, there's no software. A good place to start would be the uIP-AVR
port. The CoCo has more RAM than the targeted devices do, but is
considerably slower. However, uIP was originally developed on the C64.

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James Dessart
<http://ideaoubliette.blogspot.com/>

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